practice areas
honors + affiliations
Member, American Bar Association
Member, Houston Young Lawyers Association
Member, Louisiana State Bar Association
Member, Houston Bar Association
bar admissions
- Texas
- Louisiana
- Houston
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1000 Louisiana St., Suite 4000
Houston, TX 77002-5006
Phone: 713.890.5154
Fax: 713.890.5001
Joseph P. Roger is an associate in Morgan Lewis's Business and Finance Practice. Mr. Roger focuses his practice on energy industry and corporate transactions, including acquisitions and divestitures of upstream and midstream oil and gas assets, mergers and acquisitions of public and private entities, joint ventures, project development, private equity investments, securities offerings, and general corporate governance and contract matters.
Mr. Roger received his J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School in 2006 and a B.S. in finance from Louisiana State University in 2003.
Mr. Roger is admitted to practice in Texas and Louisiana.
Selected Representations
Note: This list contains transactions that were not completed at Morgan Lewis.
Mergers and Acquisitions - Upstream Oil and Gas
- Represented a supermajor in a $1.9 billion divestiture of its upstream and midstream businesses in Colombia.
- Represented a UK-based energy company in a $950 million acquisition of Marcellus shale assets.
- Represented a UK-based energy company in a $446 million acquisition of Haynesville shale assets.
- Represented a supermajor in a $400 million divestiture of operated oil and gas properties in the Texas Panhandle.
- Represented a UK-based energy company in a $335 million acquisition of Haynesville shale assets.
- Represented a supermajor in a $325 million divestiture of oil and gas properties in the Permian Basin.
Mergers and Acquisitions - Other
- Represented a supermajor in a $1.15 billion sale of its interest in the Seaway Crude Pipeline System.
- Represented a supermajor in a $680 million divesture of an interest in an aluminum rolling mill in Kentucky.
- Represented a NASDAQ-listed marine construction company in a merger with a NYSE-listed company valued at approximately $650 million.
- Represented a NYSE-listed oilfield services company in a merger with a NASDAQ-listed natural gas and oil well services company valued at approximately $200 million.
- Represented a major international oilfield services company in an acquisition of an oilfield technology company.
- Represented North America's largest highway safety and traffic control company in an acquisition of the intersection control segment of a NYSE-listed company.
- Represented a global instrumentation manufacturing company in its sale to a private equity fund.
- Represented a specialty gas company in its sale to the United States' largest distributor of industrial, medical and specialty gases.
- Represented a hospital revenue cycle services company in its sale to the world's largest collection agency.
- Represented a wheelchair supply company in its sale to a national complex mobility equipment supply company.
- Represented the Mexican government in its proposed disposition of its ownership interest in Satelites Mexicanos, S.A. de C.V. (Satmex), Mexico's leading satellite operator.
Joint Ventures and Project Development
- Represented a Middle Eastern private equity fund in the recapitalization of an 800-MW power-generation facility. Represented the portfolio company in the negotiation of a power hedge agreement and project development matters.
- Represented a UK-based energy company in a joint venture for the development of Haynesville shale assets.
- Represented a UK-based energy company in a joint venture for the development of Marcellus shale assets.
- Represented a contractor in the negotiation and drafting of an engineering, procurement and construction contract for a gas plant in Bolivia.
- Represented a contractor in the negotiation and drafting of an engineering, procurement and construction contract for a production platform in the Gulf of Mexico.
- Represented a real estate investment company's Latin America fund in real estate joint ventures throughout Latin America with an aggregate investment target of $200 million.
Debt and Equity Issuances
- Represented a NYSE-listed oilfield services company in a $400 million senior exchangeable note offering.
- Represented a deepwater pipe manufacturer in a convertible note issuance to a supermajor and a private equity fund.
- Represented an oilfield services company in a preferred stock issuance to a private equity fund.
education
- Vanderbilt University Law School, 2006, J.D.
- Louisiana State University, 2003, B.S.
