Jeremy A. Mouton

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).

Honors & Recognitions

Chambers USA and Chambers Global, Nationally and Globally Ranked Lawyer in Energy: Oil & Gas (Transactional), 2017 – Present

The Legal 500, Nationally Ranked Lawyer in Energy Transactions: Oil and Gas

Practice Areas

Credentials

Education

J.D., University of Texas School of Law, with honors, 2002

B.A., University of Texas at Austin, 1998

Admissions

Texas

Oklahoma

Experience

Jeremy’s representative experience includes the following:

Acquisitions and Divestitures

Jeremy has represented clients in connection with the following and numerous other upstream and midstream acquisitions and divestitures (including in sale processes under Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code):

$5.375 billion sale of Marcellus Shale and Utica Shale assets
$4.75 billion sale of Fayetteville Shale assets
$3.3 billion sale of Permian Basin assets
$2.5 billion acquisition of Permian Basin assets
$1.75 billion acquisition of Utica and Marcellus Shale assets
$1.225 billion sale of Marcellus Shale assets
$1.0 billion acquisition of Utica Shale assets
$850 million sale of Eagle Ford assets
$725 million acquisition of Permian Basin assets
$700 million sale of Eagle Ford Shale assets
$550 million sale in the Chitwood-Knox assets
$500+ million exchange of Powder River Basin assets
$500 million sale of, and $750 million joint venture for development of, Haynesville Shale assets
$500 million sale of Marcellus Shale assets
$400 million sale of Utica Shale assets
$340 million §363 acquisition of Marcellus Shale assets
$325 million sale of Haynesville Shale assets
$300 million acquisition of overriding royalty interests in Marcellus Shale assets
$300 million acquisition of, and buyout of joint venture for development of, Green River Basin assets
$250 million acquisition of SCOOP assets
$250 million acquisition of Wamsutter Field assets
$230 million acquisition of East Texas assets
$225 million acquisition of Eagle Ford Shale assets
$200 million acquisition of Pinedale Field assets
$200 million sale of Bakken Shale assets
$200 million sale of Marcellus Shale assets
$200 million acquisition of Mississippi Lime and Woodford Shale assets
$200 million acquisition of SCOOP assets
$160 million acquisition of Uinta Basin assets
$150 million acquisition of Uinta Basin assets
$150 million sale of West Texas shale formation assets
$130 million sale of Marcellus and Utica Shale assets
$115 million sale of Marcellus Shale assets
$100 million sale of Utica Shale assets
$100 million sale of Woodbine assets
$100 million sale of Marcellus Shale assets
$100 million sale of Marcellus Shale assets
$100 million sale of Permian assets
$100 million §363 disposition of Eagle Ford and East Texas shale assets
Acquisition of Smackover Formation lithium brine assets from TerraVolta Resources
Acquisition of Smackover Formation lithium brine assets from East Texas Natural Resources

Joint Venture, Farmout, DrillCo, and Asset-Backed Securitization (ABS) Transactions

Jeremy has represented clients in connection with the following and numerous other joint venture, farmout, DrillCo, ABS, and similar transactions for developing and financing the development of oil, gas, and other mineral assets:

$2.3 billion upstream joint venture for the development of Utica Shale assets
$2.25 billion upstream joint venture for the development of Barnett Shale assets
$2.2 billion upstream joint venture for the development of Eagle Ford Shale assets
$1.3 billion upstream joint venture for the development of Niobrara Shale assets
$1.25 billion upstream joint venture for the development of Utica Shale assets, which included a private placement of preferred shares
$1.25 billion upstream joint venture for the development of Cleveland and Tonkawa play assets, which included a private placement of preferred shares
$1.0 billion upstream joint venture for the development of Mississippi Lime assets
$1.0 billion upstream and water joint ventures for the development of Green River Basin assets
$500 million sale of, and $750 million joint venture for development of, Haynesville Shale assets
$700 million farmout transaction for the development of Eagle Ford assets
$600 million oil and gas wellbore asset-backed securitization (ABS) transaction
$500 million mineral interest joint venture for the acquisition of minerals and overriding royalty interests across multiple onshore U.S. basins
$430 million “drillco” structured joint venture for the development of the Utica Shale assets
$400 million oil and gas wellbore asset-backed securitization (ABS) transaction
$345 million mineral interest joint venture for the acquisition of minerals in the SCOOP and STACK plays
$200 million “drillco” structured joint venture for the development of Utica Shale assets
$150 million upstream joint venture for the development of Thrace Basin and Southeast Anatolian Basin (Gaziantep area) assets in the Republic of Turkey
$80 million oil and gas wellbore asset-backed securitization (ABS) transaction
$55 million oil and gas wellbore asset-backed securitization (ABS) transaction

Other Transactions

Jeremy has also represented clients in connection with a variety of other M&A and commercial transactions, including in connection with the following:

$52 billion sale (via corporate merger) of a consumer products company
$7.5 billion aluminum can sheet supply agreements
$3.0 billion aluminum can sheet consortium purchase agreement
$250 million malted barley supply and tolling agreements
$245 million sale of a provider of flexible packaging products
$235 million acquisition of a producer of primary and secondary carpet backing
$220 million sale of a provider of industrial cleaning services
$200 million acquisition of an independent consumer products wholesaler operation
$175 million stock purchase of a producer of primary and secondary carpet backing
$100 million acquisition of an independent consumer products wholesaler operation

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Affiliations

State Bar of Texas, Member
Oklahoma Bar Association, Member