Areas of Practice
- Banking & Financial Services
- Banking & Financial Services Regulatory & Securities
- Biotechnology & Life Sciences
- Business & Commercial Transactions
- Commercial Lending & Finance
- Corporate & Securities
- Disaster Preparedness & Recovery
- Economic Development
- Insurance Business, Regulatory & Government Relations Practice
- International
- Investment Management Legal Services
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Privacy & Data Security
- Private Equity
- Project Development & Finance
- Tax Credit Programs
- The JOBS Act Resource Page
- Venture Capital & Emerging Companies
Education
- University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., 1988; Member, Virginia Law Review
- University of Virginia, B.A., 1985, with distinction; Jefferson Scholar; Echols Scholar; One of 50 Fourth-Year Students Elected to Live on the Lawn; Omicron Delta Kappa
Bar Admissions
- Louisiana, 1988
Marshall Page is the leader of the firm's Business & Commercial Transactions Practice Group. His practice focuses on commercial and investment transactions, corporate finance, and mergers and acquisitions (M&A).
Mr. Page's commercial transactions experience includes joint ventures; aircraft purchases, sales, leases, and charters; and the purchase, sale, transportation, and terminaling of products and feedstocks.
His investment transactions experience includes private equity investments, representing sponsors/general partners to create investment funds, and leveraging economic development incentives, including federal and state tax credits. Mr. Page has extensive experience with tax credit finance, including work with certified capital company (CAPCO), historic rehabilitation, state and federal New Markets Tax Credits (NMTCs), and film and video tax credits.
Mr. Page's corporate finance transactions include traditional credit facilities, project finance, structured finance, and acquisition facilities.
Mr. Page's mergers and acquisitions experience involves primarily non-public small and middle market companies in a number of industries, including various segments of the energy industry.
Some of his recent representative transactions include:
- CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE), as borrower in connection with its credit facility transactions
- Enhanced Capital Partners, Inc., as sponsor in connection with tax credit finance transactions (including as CDE/Allocatee counsel for two New Markets Tax Credit allocations aggregating $85 million)
- MountainView Capital Holdings, LLC, as sponsor/general partner in two equity funds that raised over $150 million
- Investment funds, private individuals, and family offices in private equity investment transactions
- Chevron-Phillips Chemical Company, LP, in several M&A transactions
- Freeport-McMoRan Inc. (NYSE) and PT Freeport Indonesia, its subsidiary, in connection with their aircraft transactions, including purchases, sales, leasing, and chartering
Noteworthy
- Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® 2018 (Copyright 2017 by Woodward/White, Inc., Aiken, SC) in the areas of Banking and Finance Law, Corporate Law, International Trade and Finance Law, and Venture Capital Law (listed annually since 2006)
- Recognized by Best Lawyers® as the 2018 International Trade and Finance Law "Lawyer of the Year" in New Orleans
- Named the Best Lawyers'® 2013 and 2015 International Trade and Finance Law "Lawyer of the Year"
- Recognized in "Chambers USA – America's Leading Lawyers for Business" in the area of Banking & Finance (listed annually since 2004)
- Listed in the 2017 edition of Louisiana Super Lawyers in the area of Mergers & Acquisitions (listed annually since 2012)
- Recognized as a 2013 Top Lawyer by New Orleans Magazine
- AV Preeminent® Peer Review Rating in Martindale-Hubbell
- Named to New Orleans CityBusiness' 2008 Leadership in Law
News
- 121 Jones Walker LLP Attorneys Ranked by The Best Lawyers in America® 2018
- 49 Jones Walker Attorneys Ranked in Chambers USA 2017
- 57 Jones Walker LLP Attorneys in Louisiana Recognized in the 2017 Super Lawyers List
- 123 Jones Walker LLP Attorneys Ranked by The Best Lawyers in America® 2017
- 50 Jones Walker Attorneys Ranked in Chambers USA 2016
- Jones Walker LLP Attorneys in Louisiana Recognized in the 2016 Super Lawyers List
Presentations
- Jones Walker Hosts New Markets Tax Credits Seminar in Birmingham, June 6, 2013
- Jones Walker to Host New Markets Tax Credits Seminar in Mobile, February 26, 2013
- "Economic Development Financing", October 15, 2008
- "Updating Your Boilerplate", June 12, 2007
- "Corporate Attorneys and In-House Counsel: The Essential Issues", October 1, 2004
Memberships
- American Bar Association (Member, Section on Business Law)
- Bureau of Governmental Research
- Hurtsville Neighborhood Association, Inc. (President)
- Louisiana Bar Foundation (Fellow)
- Louisiana State Bar Association (Chairman, Section on International Law; Member, Section on Corporate and Business Law)
- Preservation Resource Center (Board of Directors, 2000–2009; Executive Committee, 2004–2006; Treasurer, 2004–2006)
- Trinity Episcopal School (Member, Board of Trustees and Finance Committee, 2006–2011; Treasurer, 2008–2010)
- University of Virginia (Member, Louisiana Executive Committee for $1 billion capital campaign; Keynote Speaker at Louisiana Campaign Regional Kickoff Event; Regional Representative, University of Virginia School of Law Annual Fund, 2002 to date; Member, National Jefferson Scholarship Selection Committee, 2011 to date; Chairman, Louisiana Jefferson Scholarship Selection Committee, 1990–1994)
