Zach Scott
Associate
Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP
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Biography
Zach Scott is a corporate transactional associate in the Houston office of Norton Rose Fulbright. His practice focuses on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, projects and infrastructure and joint venture formation involving energy assets and companies across the energy value chain, with an emphasis on domestic energy transactions in the upstream and midstream sectors. Zach is also experienced in representing individual and corporate clients in all aspects of securities arbitration under the auspices of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), and has extensive experience practicing commercial litigation in state and federal district courts.
Professional experience
Collapse allJD, cum laude, University of Houston, 2018
BA, Texas A&M University, 2013
- Texas State Bar
- A publicly traded private equity group in its US$100 million acquisition of oil and gas mineral and royalty assets in the Midland Basin from a private seller
- An energy investment firm in its US$1.8 billion divestiture of all of the equity interests in certain subsidiary companies to a private buyer
- A midstream oil and gas company in its acquisition of a portfolio of midstream assets from a natural gas midstream company
- A private oil and natural gas development and production company in its US$440 million acquisition of certain producing properties in the Permian Basin from a publicly traded, multinational Fortune 500 company
- A leading global private equity group and its sponsored oil and gas exploration and production company in that company's US$604 million divestiture of its Northern Delaware Basin assets to a publicly traded, independent energy company
- A private equity backed energy investment group in its acquisition of royalty interests in the Permian Basin from an undisclosed seller
- A publicly traded independent gas and oil production company in its acquisition of certain upstream assets, field infrastructure, equipment and facilities within the company's Central Region from independent oil and natural gas company and its affiliate
- The world's largest alternative asset manager and certain of its portfolio companies on the definitive purchase and sale agreement with a publicly traded subsidiary of a publicly traded, independent oil and natural gas company, to acquire certain mineral and royalty interests from the portfolio companies
- A privately held, independent oil and natural gas company on the US$788 million acquisition of its leasehold interests and related oil, gas and infrastructure assets by a publicly traded, independent oil and natural gas company
- A leading global private equity firm and an independent oil and natural gas company in the company's US$650 million acquisition by an independent energy company
- Author, "The Jones Act and LNG: How a Century Old Law is Inhibiting American Energy Independence," 1 ST. B. TEX. INT'L L. SEC. INT'L NEWSL. 1, 28 , 2018