Justin T. Stolte is Global Chair of Latham’s Energy & Infrastructure Group and a partner in its Houston and New York offices. His practice focuses on strategic transactions involving energy and infrastructure businesses, with an emphasis on M&A and joint ventures.

Mr. Stolte is consistently recognized as a top-tier practitioner in energy and infrastructure, including by The Best Lawyers in America (2021-2024), Chambers USA, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business (2019-2023), ILFR (2023), and The Legal 500 US (2018-2023). Mr. Stolte was also named an Energy MVP by Law360 in 2022 and has garnered recognition by several other industry-leading publications, including American City Business Journal, Hart Energy, Houston Business Journal, Lawdragon, and Texas Monthly.  

Mr. Stolte previously worked in business development, commercial, and engineering roles at two global energy and infrastructure companies, where he led the acquisition, development, and divestiture of several multi-billion-dollar infrastructure projects. Clients have praised this experience, noting in Chambers USA 2023 that it uniquely allows him “to bring a practical business perspective” and “understand what’s important” to transactions.

Mr. Stolte has led Latham’s Energy & Infrastructure Group since its inception, a group including 650+ lawyers that is consistently recognized as one of the elite energy and infrastructure practices in the world.

Mr. Stolte has experience in a broad range of energy and infrastructure subsectors. Notable representations at Latham include:

Mergers & Acquisitions

  • ArcLight Capital Partners in its US$540 million pending acquisition of a 16% interest in US Gulf Coast Express Pipeline (GCX), which owns a 447.5-mile natural gas pipeline located in Texas, from Kinetik Energy 
  • Talos Energy in its sale of Talos Low Carbon Solutions LLC, a carbon capture and sequestration business, to TotalEnergies E&P USA, Inc.
  • Wren House in its acquisition of an equity stake in Seacube Container Leasing Ltd., a global shipping container business, from OTPPB
  • Cox Oil Offshore, LLC in its Section 363 sale of Gulf of Mexico assets to W&T Offshore Inc
  • MidOcean Energy, an LNG company formed by EIG Partners, in its acquisition of all of SK Earthon’s interest in Peru LNG, which owns and operates a 4.45 Mtpa LNG project located in Peru  
  • Ara Partners in its acquisition of Vacuumschmelze, a leading infrastructure producer of advanced magnetic materials and the largest producer of rare earth permanent magnets in the Western Hemisphere, from Apollo
  • Enduring Resources, an EnCap-backed company, in its US$1.0 billion business combination with certain subsidiaries of DJR Energy, a Trilantic-backed company
  • Greenbelt Capital Partners in its acquisition of Saber Power, a fully integrated substation and medium-to-high-voltage infrastructure services platform, from Oaktree
  • CPP Investments and OMERS Infrastructure in the US$2.0 billion sale of their respective stakes in Skyway Concession, a company that manages, operates, and maintains the Chicago Skyway toll road, to Atlas Arteria
  • AB CarVal in its US$700 million acquisition of Peregrine Energy Solutions, a clean energy infrastructure platform with a focus on utility-scale energy storage, from various financial sponsors
  • Fortescue Future Industries in its acquisition of Phoenix Hydrogen Hub, a green hydrogen project located in Arizona, from Nikola Corporation
  • Coefficient Partners in its acquisition of an equity stake in Noveon Magnetics, a manufacturer of rare earth magnets in the US
  • ArcLight Capital Partners in its acquisition of a 12.5% interest in Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America LLC (NGPL), which owns and operates the largest natural gas network in North America, from Brookfield Infrastructure
  • Woodside Energy in its acquisition of offshore blocks located in Namibia from Pancontinental Energy
  • ArcLight Capital Partners in its sale of Gulf Oil’s refined product terminal businesses located in the northeastern US to Global Partners
  • ConocoPhillips in its acquisition of a 30% ownership stake in the Port Arthur LNG Facility, a 13.5 Mtpa LNG project located in the US Gulf Coast, from Sempra Infrastructure Partners 
  • AB CarVal in its US$1.0 billion acquisition of an equity stake in Blue Source Sustainable Forests Co. (BSFC) and BSFC’s acquisition of 1.7 million acres of timberland, representing one of the largest private conservation-focused forest investments in US history
  • ArcLight Capital Partners in its US$1.3 billion sale of Midcoast Energy’s midstream business located in the US Gulf Coast region to M6 Midstream
  • Carnelian Energy in the sale of SandPoint Operating LLC, an upstream producer in the Eagle Ford Basin, to SilverBow Resources
  • ArcLight Capital Partners in its US$857 million acquisition of a 25% interest in GCX from Targa Resources
  • Nine Point Energy in its Section 363 sale of Williston Basin assets to Bowline Energy
  • Ara Partners in its acquisition of FNX Liquid Natural Gas, a European biomethane platform, from its private shareholders
  • Quanta Services in its US$2.7 billion acquisition of Blattner Energy, a renewable energy infrastructure solutions company, from its private shareholders
  • Ara Partners in its acquisition of an equity stake in Repeats Group B.V., a pan-European plastics recycling platform, from its private shareholders
  • ArcLight Capital Partners in its US$830 million acquisition of a 25% interest in NGPL from Kinder Morgan and Brookfield Infrastructure
  • Enduring Resources in its (1) US$2.5 billion sale of Permian Basin business to American Energy Partners LP and (2) US$1.3 billion sale of Eagle Ford business to Statoil and Talisman
  • Private sellers in the US$1.0 billion sale of Williston Basin assets to Williams Companies

Joint Ventures & Other Strategic Transactions

  • Alliant Energy in its development of the Columbia Energy Storage Project, an energy battery storage project located in Wisconsin 
  • Clean Hydrogen Works in the development of the Ascension Clean Energy Project, a low-carbon hydrogen-ammonia project located in the US Gulf Coast region
  • ConocoPhillips in its proposed joint venture with JERA Americas to develop a low-carbon hydrogen-ammonia project in the US Gulf Coast Region 
  • Talos Energy in its joint venture with Storegga to develop the Harvest Bend CCS Project located in the US Gulf Coast region
  • Chevron in its joint venture to develop the Bayou Bend CCS Project located in the US Gulf Coast
  • Divert Inc. in its US$1.1 billion joint venture with Enbridge Inc. to develop wasted food-to-RNG projects across North America
  • Tellurian Inc. in the development of the Driftwood LNG Project, a 27.6 Mtpa LNG project located in the US Gulf Coast region
  • Woodside Energy in the development of the H2OK Hydrogen Project, a net zero hydrogen project located in Oklahoma
  • Energy super-major in its joint venture arrangement with a multinational energy company to (1) acquire offshore state leases for CCS sequestration and (2) construct CO2 transportation and associated facilities
  • ExxonMobil in its joint venture with EnLink Midstream and CF Industries for the development of the Pecan Island CCS Project located in Louisiana
  • Bakken Energy in the development of a low-carbon hydrogen hub located in North Dakota
  • Alder Fuels in its joint venture with United Airlines and Honeywell Corp. to develop a sustainable biofuel platform for the production of aviation fuel
  • Chevron in its US$1.2 billion joint venture with Bunge Limited and CoverCress, Inc. to develop a renewable fuel feedstocks platform
  • Sabine Oil & Gas in its joint venture with Align Midstream Partners to develop the TOPS Pipeline in the Haynesville Basin
  • Equity lines of investment and/or financing rounds involving:
    • Pure Lithium
    • BioVeritas
    • Utility Global
    • Mission Midstream
    • Inspiration Mobility
    • Divert Inc.
    • Midcoast Energy
    • Enduring Resources
    • PetroEdge Energy
  • Restructurings of:
    • MLCJR (Cox Oil)
    • Nine Point Energy
    • Pacific Drilling
    • BJ Services
    • Bruin E&P
    • Vista Proppants

Bar Qualification

  • Texas

Education

  • MBA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management
  • JD, University of Notre Dame Law School
    cum laude
  • BS, Colorado School of Mines
    with high honors