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Baker Botts L.L.P. Offices
910 LOUISIANA STREET
HOUSTON
TEXAS 77002-4995
TEXAS
United States
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Mr Scott Looper
Work Department
Global Projects
Position
Partner
Career
Scott primarily focuses on midstream and LNG project development activities, including complex commercial contracts, A&D, rights-of-way, construction, operations, and joint ventures, in addition to energy regulatory (state and FERC) and litigation counseling. He also regularly advises corporate boards and committees on midstream transactions.
Scott has extensive experience with long-term commercial contracts related to gathering and pipeline transportation (including state and FERC tariffs); processing and fractionation; interconnection, compression, blending, treating, stabilization, and pumping; storage (underground and above-ground) and terminaling; commodity sales (including NAESB, ISDA and other forms), asset management, and marketing; feedstock, supply, offtake and offloading; liquefaction and terminal services; saltwater disposal; and hydrogen and CCUS.
Scott clerked for the Honorable Vanessa Gilmore of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Before law school, he worked as an energy analyst for Accenture.
Memberships
Education
J.D., University of Houston Law Center 2009
cum laude
Symposium Editor, Houston Law Review
M.Sc., business management, University of East Anglia, England 2006
with honors
B.A., English, Trinity University 2004
magna cum laude
Phi Beta Kappa
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
(Next Generation Partners)Counting BP, ConocoPhillips and CenterPoint Energy, to name a few, among its key roster of clients, Baker Botts L.L.P. is instructed by major market players to handle bet-the-company transactions in the oil and gas sector, advising on the full spectrum of matters, including M&A structuring, federal and state tax support and regulatory guidance. With demonstrable experience across the upstream, midstream and downstream sectors, the team advises on mandates concerning all forms of financing, commercial agreements, equity investments, restructuring and royalty transactions. In the firm’s Houston office, Jason Bennett focuses on the development and financing of LNG projects, joint ventures and transactions, while Washington DC-based senior counsel Steven Miles
is an industry veteran, who advises on matters arising out of the LNG, natural gas and renewable energy industries. In Houston, Erin Hopkins handles commercial issues involving the acquisition and divestiture of energy companies and joint venture arrangements, and Scott Looper focuses on midstream and LNG project development, while Dallas-based Jonathan Platt represents private equity funds in acquisitions, investments and general corporate matters in the energy sector.
Lawyer Rankings
- Energy transactions: oil and gas United States > Energy
- Next Generation Partners United States > Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
Firm Rankings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Energy > Energy litigation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Finance > Project finance
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Real estate > Real estate
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense