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201 St. Charles Ave
New Orleans, LA 70170-5100
504.582.8268 tel
504.589.8268 fax


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Seth Levine is a member of the Energy, Environment & Natural Resources practice in the firm's New Orleans office. His practice involves representing  energy companies, including natural gas pipeline companies and natural gas storage companies in a wide range of real property issues. He has extensive expreience in project financing, land acquisitions, servitude acquisitions and other real estate matters, including all aspects of real estate due diligence and title matters. 

Recent representative transactions include:

• Serving as co-counsel for natural gas pipeline company in connection with the construction, development and permitting of a $1 billion dollar natural gas pipeline expansion providing advices with respect to negotiation of, and closing on, fee and servitude acquisitions in connection with related pipelines, interconnect facilities, metering and compressor sites, review of title matters, permitting and governmental relations.
  
• Serving as co-counsel for natural gas storage company in connection with financing, construction, development and permitting of a $250 million salt cavern natural gas storage facility providing advices with respect to $120 million dollar credit facility and related financing documents, negotiation of and closing on fee, leasehold, options and servitude acquisitions in connection with related pipelines, pipeline facilities, storage caverns, salt water disposal wells and leaching facilities, review of all title matters, assistance with permitting obtaining water rights and addressing related issues, and assistance with governmental relations and expropriation/condemnation proceedings for pipeline right-of-way.
  
• Serving as co-counsel for numerous natural gas storage and pipeline companies in connection with the acquisition and development of large pipelines and natural gas storage facilities including issuance (through in-house title agency) and review of multiple title insurance policies insuring those transactions valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars, due diligence and title curative matters.
  
• Serving as co-counsel to numerous oil and gas companies in connection with title review, title opinions and title policies with respect to the development of the Haynesville Shale, including exploration and productions activities, pipelines and transportation assets and storage assets.
  
• Serving as co-counsel to investment partnership holding land interests in connection with mineral leases and internal partnership governance matters.
  
• Serving as co-counsel in connection with the $80 million financing of an undivided quarter interest in an offshore oil and gas production platform in the Gulf of Mexico for international oil and gas operations; responsible for the negotiation of all security and collateral documents for compliance with Louisiana law and for opinion letter.

Noteworthy

• Named a "Rising Star" in the area of Real Estate in the 2012 edition of Louisiana Super Lawyers

News

• Jones Walker Announces New Partners, Office Heads, and Board of Directors Members
• Fifty-Six Jones Walker Attorneys Named to Louisiana Super Lawyers 2012
• Seth A. Levine Joins Jones Walker

Presentations

• "The Foreclosure Process In Louisiana", December 15, 2009
• "Significant Tax Planning Opportunities Afforded by KETRA and GOZone Tax Legislation", March 16, 2006

Publications

• "The Foreclosure Process In Louisiana"
  NBI Seminar, December 15, 2009
• "Significant Tax Planning Opportunities Afforded by KETRA and GOZone Tax Legislation"
  New Orleans Real Estate Investors Association (NOREIA) March 16, 2006
• "Lease Negotiation Handbook: Chapter V – Term"
  International Association of Attorneys and Executives in Corporate Real Estate (AECRE), a joint publication of ALI-ABA and AECRE, August 19, 2003
• "On the Road to Recovery: How Tort Litigation Has Impacted the Development and Financing of Senior Housing Facilities"
  American Bar Association Section of Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Annual Meeting, August 2003
• "Problem Loan Seminar: Chapter IV – Louisiana Foreclosure"
  Sterling Education Services, January 21, 2003
• "Advanced Real Estate Law in Louisiana: I – Title and Survey Review"
  National Business Institute, December 5, 2002
• "Commercial and Residential Lease Enforcement and Evictions in Louisiana: How to Do Them Right – Section I, Drafting and Execution: How to Protect the Landlord and Section VII, Ethical and Professional Considerations"
  Sterling Education Services, September 5, 2002

Memberships

• American Bar Association
• Faubourg St. John Neighborhood Association (President, Board of Directors)
• Jewish Endowment Foundation of Louisiana (Board Member)
• Licensed Real Estate Broker, State of Louisiana 
• Louisiana State Bar Association