Jay Thomas Harper

jay.harper@lw.com

+1.713.546.7779

Profile

Jay Harper is an associate in the Houston office of Latham & Watkins.

Jay advises private equity firms as well as public and private energy companies on a broad range of upstream and midstream energy transactions. Jay draws on a strong technical knowledge of commercial agreements across the oil and gas industry to guide clients through complex upstream and midstream oil and gas transactions.

He advises clients on both conventional and bespoke agreements, including:

Purchase and sale agreements
Leases, farmout agreements, and participation agreements
Joint operating agreements
Gas, crude, and NGL gathering and transportation agreements
Pipeline connection agreements
Water supply and disposal agreements

Experience

Jay’s representative work includes advising:

Apache Corporation on its:
- US$608 million sale of certain unconventional producing assets in the state of New Mexico to Permian Resources Corporation*
- US$950 million sale of non-core oil and gas assets in the Permian Basin*
- Sale of approximately 24,000 net royalty acres across several counties in the Midland Basin*
Rock River Minerals IV, LP on its divestiture of approximately 8,500 royalty acres in the Midland Basin to Freehold Royalties*
Several private equity-backed E&P companies on transactions, including:
- An acquisition of certain oil and gas assets from a publicly traded oil and gas company in the DJ Basin*
A publicly traded midstream company on an anchor shipper arrangement with a large publicly traded exploration and production operator for the buildout of a gathering system in the Utica Shale*
MB Minerals LP on the US$143 million sale of Midland Basin mineral and royalty interests to Kimbell Royalty Partners, LP*
Driftwood Energy Operating, LLC on the sale of assets in the Midland Basin to Vital Energy, Inc.*
Titus Oil & Gas Production, LLC and Titus Oil & Gas Production II, LLC on a US$627 million divestiture of New Mexico assets located in the northern Delaware Basin to Earthstone Energy, Inc.*