Natalie Taylor

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About Natalie

Biography
Representative Matters
Awards
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Natalie Taylor enjoys a diverse commercial law practice handling a wide range of issues, including corporate formations, reorganizations, and dissolutions, joint venture arrangements, corporate governance, private equity capital raising, project finance, real estate, and title review. Natalie’s practice has focused primarily on assisting local and international clients with all stages of project development, including company start-up, industrial site land acquisitions, structuring and negotiating project financings, negotiating joint venture agreements, permitting, and on-going corporate governance.

Natalie also represents clients in the formation and negotiation of other commercial agreements, including asset purchase agreements, master services agreements and professional services agreements. In addition, Natalie has experience with oil and gas title examinations and drafting and negotiating a broad range of real estate agreements, including purchase agreements, deeds, mortgages, and right-of-way agreements.

Represented an international client in site location and acquisition, permitting, company start-up, and contract negotiations for a $1.85 billion world-class methanol production facility.

Represented a corporate client in the formation of a complex joint venture arrangement involving a $253 million equity investment in the client’s greenfield project.

The Best Lawyers in America ©, New Orleans, LA – Product Liability Litigation – Defendants, 2023

Super Lawyers ®, New Orleans, LA – Rising Star, 2016, 2017

Selected as “Top Lawyer” in New Orleans by New Orleans Magazine for Commercial Transactions / LLS Law, 2020

Publications:

“Recent Developments in Louisiana Medical Malpractice Law,” 74 La. L. Rev. 873, co-authored with Michael C. Mims, 2014

“Economic Substance and the Standard of Review,” 60 ALA. L. REV. 2, (Research Assistant, Christopher M. Pietruszkiewicz), 2009.

Presentations:

“Rain Making,” Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel Women’s Retreat, co-presenter, July 2014

“Recent Developments in Medical Malpractice Caselaw,” New Orleans Bar Association Health Care Law CLE session, September 2013

“Legislative Updates and Current Jurisprudence in medical malpractice,” LAMMICO’s 30th Annual Defense Counsel Seminar, co-presenter, August 2013

Practice Areas

Industries

Education

Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center Juris Doctor, 2007

Louisiana State University, Bachelor of Science, magna cum laude, 2003

Bar Affiliations

Louisiana, 2007

Courts

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit

Associations

Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel, Member

Former Director Former Chair of the Young Lawyers Committee, 2014-present

Louisiana State Bar Association, Member, 2007-present

New Orleans Bar Association, Member, 2007-present