Greg Johnson is an experienced business lawyer with a long record of helping Louisiana companies with the environmental aspects of complex, large-impact transactions, litigation, and regulatory compliance issues throughout the surrounding Gulf Coast region.  A significant focus of Greg’s practice is representing domestic and international corporations with environmental permitting for major, high-profile industrial facility projects – such as a proposed, $20 billion gas-to-liquid facility – and with the resolution of often-controversial, high-exposure, oil and gas or energy-related disputes, such as claims in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Greg draws heavily on his real-world experience and training as a chemical engineer when he counsels clients with transactions involving technical issues, most commonly in spotting latent environmental issues with sales or purchases of industrial or manufacturing sites in the chemical, petrochemical, inorganic, and industrial sectors.  During law school and prior to starting his law practice, Greg was a consulting environmental engineer concentrating on permitting, emissions estimation, reporting, modeling, and compliance issues in the oil and gas, chemical, and energy sectors.

For example, as part of his representation in a large acquisition of a Louisiana industrial facility, Greg obtained the first-ever confirmation of Bona Fide Prospective Purchaser status in favor of the client, offering it as a statutory defense to federal and state cleanup liability.  In addition, Greg helps companies with environmental audits, the pursuit of various environmental permits, and disclosure of enforcement issues to federal and state governmental agencies.

He is the long-serving General Counsel to the International Carbon Black Association, an industry trade group comprising all of the manufacturers of carbon black in North America and Western Europe.  Greg has helped the association with regulatory matters, including the negotiation of Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) standards for the industry and the procurement of key Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) interpretations. In addition, Greg provides antitrust surveillance and negotiates sponsored-research contracts for the group.

Greg leads the environmental regulatory practice group at Liskow & Lewis and is a past chair of the Louisiana State Bar Association’s Environmental Law Section.  He is a frequent speaker, sought-after as a thought leader on energy and environmental topics.

Liskow & Lewis

Liskow & Lewis was founded in 1935 and includes nearly 140 lawyers in four offices, strategically located in New Orleans, Lafayette and Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Houston, Texas. Since its inception, the firm’s practice has focused on the energy and oil and gas industry, and has grown to meet the evolving demands of its clients, diversifying into a wide-ranging litigation and transactional practice across the Gulf Coast.

From selective recruiting practices to a strategic lateral process, our focus is on academic excellence and exemplary professional credentials. We believe the highest quality representation for clients begins with the highest levels of talent. This is manifest in the fact that over half of our lawyers were selected to Order of the Coif, and over two-thirds were members of the law review at their respective law schools.

The marketplace historically recognizes this excellence. For example, in 2016, U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers, BL Rankings, LLC, ranked Liskow & Lewis as the “Law Firm of the Year” for Oil and Gas in the United States. Fifty-seven of our lawyers were listed in the 2020 edition of The Best Lawyers in America, BL Rankings, LLC, and sixteen are listed in the America’s Leading Business Lawyers 2019 Edition by Chambers USA.

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