Energy
Jeremy A. Mouton, co-chair of Porter Hedges LLP’s energy section, is a prominent figure in Houston’s energy transactional market. His practice focuses on upstream and midstream oil and gas clients, including Chevron, The Williams Companies, and Alpine Summit. Recently, he advised Chevron on the $525m sale of East Texas gas assets to a Tokyo Gas affiliate and represented Alpine Summit as debtor counsel in a $125m asset-backed facility tied to bankruptcy proceedings.
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Energy Transactions
Position
Jeremy Mouton is Co-Chair of the firm's Energy Section. His practice focuses on advising E&P companies, private equity and direct investment firms, and lenders on a variety of energy transactional, corporate, and other commercial matters, with an emphasis on upstream and midstream oil, gas, and other mineral transactions.
Jeremy has advised clients on some of the oil and gas industry’s larger conventional and unconventional A&D, joint venture, farmout, ”drillco”, and asset-backed securitization (ABS) transactions in recent years, including energy transactions comprising more than $50 billion in combined deal value.
Jeremy has served multiple terms on the firm’s Management Committee and has served as practice group leader for the firm’s Property & Finance Practice Group (of which the firm’s Energy Transactions section is a part).
Memberships
- State Bar of Texas, Member
- Oklahoma Bar Association, Member
Education
J.D., University of Texas School of Law, with honors
B.A., University of Texas at Austin, Government and English
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Key clients
- Chevron USA, Inc.
- The Williams Companies, Inc.
- Sage Road Capital, LP
- Purewest Resources, Inc.
- Verdun Oil Company
- Middle Fork Energy Partners, LLC
- Franco-Nevada U.S. Corporation
Work highlights
Advised Alpine Summit Energy Partners in connection with its bankruptcy proceedings, including two asset sales under Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code and an $80 million asset-backed securitization facility secured by producing oil and gas interests, with capacity to expand to $150 million.
Advised Chevron U.S.A. Inc., a subsidiary of Chevron Corporation, in its sale of a 70% interest in its East Texas gas assets to an affiliate of TG Natural Resources LLC, a company indirectly owned by Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd and Castleton Commodities International LLC, for $525 million, with $75 million paid in cash and $450 million as a capital carry to fund Haynesville development.