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Robert W. Scheffy, Jr.

Jones Walker LLP
  • Recognized Since:
    2005
  • Recognized in:
    Energy Law
    Natural Resources Law...
  • Law School:
    Louisiana State University Law Center
  • Website:
    https://www.joneswalker.com
  • Firm's Phone Number:
    (225) 248.2000
  • Location:
    Suite 800
    445 North Boulevard
    Baton Rouge, LA 70802

Rob Scheffy is a partner in the Corporate Practice Group, focusing on real estate, and a member of the Energy, Environmental & Natural Resources Industry Team. Rob Scheffy has provided businesses with a steady, guiding hand through all phases of the economic cycle, from booms to busts and everything in between. Often described as a “hybrid” lawyer, he draws on his years of private practice and his service as in-house counsel for an interstate gas pipeline company to advise pipeline companies and exploration and production companies in connection with the development, purchase, and sale of producing properties. Rob is also a licensed title agent representing a number of the National Title Insurance Companies. Due to his diverse practice footprint, he is often called on by real estate developers, lenders, and E&P companies to resolve matters involving surface use issues and/or to offer advises on title insurance coverages. Recently, he has been called on to offer such advises to companies involved in the alternative energy world. Rob’s broad commercial real estate practice includes representing lenders, borrowers, and developers on matters such as extensive title examination, and negotiating loan agreements and other collateral documents for lenders and borrowers. He also provides counsel to lenders and borrowers on land use issues, including zoning, coastal use permitting, Section 404 permitting, and environmental site assessments. Rob has also been involved in project development work in connection with commercial real estate development, industrial plant operations, and the development of underground storage facilities. He has provided counsel to clients with regard to developing commercial shopping center sites and residential developments, as well as with structuring the relationships between chemical plants for the sharing of facilities, utilities, and services, and the granting of reciprocal servitudes for operations. Rob has also worked on the financing of such transactions. In addition, Rob has handled similar arrangements between electrical power generators, exempt wholesale generators, and electrical transmission companies, and has worked on and drafted the necessary servitude (easement) agreements to bring power and/or fuel to such facilities, as well as to deliver product from such plants. In conjunction with these matters, he has been involved in land use planning issues, environmental regulatory issues, and financing issues involving commercial real estate projects, industrial projects, and power generation projects. Rob’s energy practice includes the representation of pipeline companies and exploration and production companies in connection with the development, purchase, and sale of producing properties. He has also been involved with matters related to the acquisition and permitting for the storage of natural gas in salt dome caverns and depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs, as well as the acquisition of producing properties. Rob has extensive experience in connection with the representation of exploration and production companies, including title review activities such as preliminary drill site title opinions, division order title opinions, and financing title opinions. He has also represented pipeline companies in connection with the acquisition of rights of way and the planning of pipeline alignment.

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Lawyer Bio

Rob Scheffy is a partner in the Corporate Practice Group, focusing on real estate, and a member of the Energy, Environmental & Natural Resources Industry Team. Rob Scheffy has provided businesses with a steady, guiding hand through all phases of the economic cycle, from booms to busts and everything in between. Often described as a “hybrid” lawyer, he draws on his years of private practice and his service as in-house counsel for an interstate gas pipeline company to advise pipeline companies and exploration and production companies in connection with the development, purchase, and sale of producing properties. Rob is also a licensed title agent representing a number of the National Title Insurance Companies. Due to his diverse practice footprint, he is often called on by real estate developers, lenders, and E&P companies to resolve matters involving surface use issues and/or to offer advises on title insurance coverages. Recently, he has been called on to offer such advises to companies involved in the alternative energy world. Rob’s broad commercial real estate practice includes representing lenders, borrowers, and developers on matters such as extensive title examination, and negotiating loan agreements and other collateral documents for lenders and borrowers. He also provides counsel to lenders and borrowers on land use issues, including zoning, coastal use permitting, Section 404 permitting, and environmental site assessments. Rob has also been involved in project development work in connection with commercial real estate development, industrial plant operations, and the development of underground storage facilities. He has provided counsel to clients with regard to developing commercial shopping center sites and residential developments, as well as with structuring the relationships between chemical plants for the sharing of facilities, utilities, and services, and the granting of reciprocal servitudes for operations. Rob has also worked on the financing of such transactions. In addition, Rob has handled similar arrangements between electrical power generators, exempt wholesale generators, and electrical transmission companies, and has worked on and drafted the necessary servitude (easement) agreements to bring power and/or fuel to such facilities, as well as to deliver product from such plants. In conjunction with these matters, he has been involved in land use planning issues, environmental regulatory issues, and financing issues involving commercial real estate projects, industrial projects, and power generation projects. Rob’s energy practice includes the representation of pipeline companies and exploration and production companies in connection with the development, purchase, and sale of producing properties. He has also been involved with matters related to the acquisition and permitting for the storage of natural gas in salt dome caverns and depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs, as well as the acquisition of producing properties. Rob has extensive experience in connection with the representation of exploration and production companies, including title review activities such as preliminary drill site title opinions, division order title opinions, and financing title opinions. He has also represented pipeline companies in connection with the acquisition of rights of way and the planning of pipeline alignment.

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  • Affiliations
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  • Lawyer of the Year Badge
  • Lawyer of the Year Badge
  • Lawyer of the Year Badge

Education:

  • Louisiana State University Law Center, JD, graduated 1974
  • Louisiana State University, BS, graduated 1971

Bar Admissions:

  • Louisiana, Louisiana
 

Court Admissions:

  • US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
  • US District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana
  • US District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Affiliations:

  • American Bar Association, Sections of Environment, Energy and Resources, Real Property, Probate and Trust Law - Member
  • American Bar Foundation - Fellow
  • Baton Rouge Association of Petroleum Landmen, Founding Member and Founding Board Member - Current Board Member
  • Baton Rouge Bar Association - Past President, Young Lawyers Section
  • Baton Rouge Community College - Advisory Board Member, Paralegal Program
  • Baton Rouge Property Lawyers Association - Member
  • Louisiana Bank Counsel Association - Member
  • Louisiana State Bar Association, Baton Rouge Bank Counsel Association, Section of Mineral Law; Past Council Member, Section of Mineral Law, LSBA; Section of Trusts, Estate, Probate & Immovable Property Law; Section of Environmental Law; Section of Corpora - Member

Named "Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers for:

  • Energy Law, Baton Rouge (2020)
  • Energy Law, Baton Rouge (2018)
  • Energy Law, Baton Rouge (2013)
 

Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America for work in:

  • Energy Law
  • Natural Resources Law
  • Oil and Gas Law
  • Real Estate Law

Special Focus:

  • Administrative
  • Contract
  • Energy
  • Gas
  • Minerals
  • Oil and Gas
  • Pipeline
  • Project Development
  • Real Estate
  • Regulatory
  • Title Matters
  • Transactions
 

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Firm Details

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Jones Walker LLP
https://www.joneswalker.com
 
Headquarters
201 Saint Charles Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70170-5100
(504) 582.8000
13 Office Locations
in 1 Country

United States

United States

Alabama

Alabama

Birmingham, AL

420 Twentieth Street North, Suite 1100

Birmingham, AL 35203

United States

(205) 244.5200

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Mobile, AL

RSA Battle House Tower, Suite 1200

11 North Water Street

Mobile, AL 36602

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(251) 432.1414

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Arizona

Arizona

Phoenix, AZ

333 North Central Avenue

Phoenix, AZ 85004

United States

(602) 366.7889

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District of Columbia

District of Columbia

Washington, DC

499 South Capitol Street, SW, Suite 600

Washington, DC 20003

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(202) 203.1000

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Florida

Florida

Miami, FL

Citi Center, Suite 2600

201 South Biscayne Boulevard

Miami, FL 33131-4341

United States

(305) 679.5700

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Georgia

Georgia

Atlanta, GA

One Midtown Plaza, Suite 1030

1360 Peachtree Street, NE

Atlanta, GA 30309

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(404) 870.7500

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Louisiana

Louisiana

Baton Rouge, LA

Suite 800

445 North Boulevard

Baton Rouge, LA 70802

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(225) 248.2000

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Lafayette, LA

Suite 1600

600 Jefferson Street

Lafayette, LA 70501

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(337) 593.7600

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Mississippi

Mississippi

Jackson, MS

Suite 800

190 E Capitol Street

Jackson, MS 39201

United States

(601) 949.4900

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New York

New York

New York, NY

350 Fifth Avenue, Suite 5200

New York, NY 10118

United States

(646) 735.6900

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Texas

Texas

Houston, TX

811 Main Street, Suite 2900

Houston, TX 77002

United States

(713) 437.1800

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The Woodlands, TX

Waterway Plaza Two, Suite 350

10001 Woodloch Forest Drive

The Woodlands, TX 77380

United States

(281) 296.4400

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Lawyer Case History

EnCana Oil and Gas (USA), Inc.

Extensive work in preparing Oil and Gas Title opinions relative to the Haynesville Play in north Louisiana.

HM Captial Partners

Producing property due diligence in connection with the acquisition of producing properties in 2008 and 2009.

Chesapeake Energy Corporate

Extensive work in preparing title opinion in the Haynesville Play in Louisiana.

Sonoran Energy Financings

Counsel to client in connection with acqusition and financing producing properties in Louisiana in 2007 and 2008

QEP Energy Company

Extensive title work and division order title work.

Kinder Morgan

Regulatory advises regarding gathering system.
Expropriation advises regarding pipeline project.

Caddo Parish Holdings

Acquisition of Producing Properties involving substantial number of wells.

Cameron LNG

Local Counsel to lender in connection with issuing title insurance with mineral endorsements for largest title insurance transaction in Louisiana.

Hilcorp

Delivery of leasehold title opinions and division order title opinions.

Halcon

Delivery of Division Order Title Opinions.
 
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