Energy Group of the Year: Latham & Watkins
The firm’s work on landmark energy matters earns industry recognition from Law360.
Justin T. Stolte is Global Chair of the firm’s Energy & Infrastructure Group. His practice focuses on strategic transactions involving energy and infrastructure businesses, with an emphasis on M&A and joint ventures.
Mr. Stolte is recognized by The Best Lawyers in America (2021-2024), Chambers USA, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business (2019-2023), and The Legal 500 US (2018-2023), where clients praise his ability “to bring a practical business perspective” and “understand what’s important in a transaction.” In addition, he was 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.
Under Mr. Stolte’s leadership as Chair of the Energy & Infrastructure Group at Latham and the equivalent at his prior firm, the practices have been awarded Law360 Practice Group of the Year in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2023.
Mr. Stolte previously worked in business development, commercial, and engineering roles at Chevron Corporation and Apache Corporation.
Mr. Stolte’s representative experience at Latham includes:
Numerous infrastructure M&A transactions, including:
Numerous upstream M&A transactions, including:
Numerous low carbon JVs, including:
Numerous CCS JVs, including:
Numerous strategic transactions, including:
The firm’s work on landmark energy matters earns industry recognition from Law360.
Latham’s #1 rankings reinforce firm’s position as a global transactional powerhouse.
Year-end league tables by Refinitiv, IJGlobal, and Inframation reflect the firm’s leading performance across regions and industries.