Latham & Watkins LLP

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.

Justin 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 (2019-2025), ILFR (2023-2024), and The Legal 500 US (2018-2024). He 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.

Justin 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 that it uniquely allows him “to bring a practical business perspective” and “understand what’s important” to transactions.

Justin 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.

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Mr. Stolte is active in several professional organizations, including serving on:

The Executive Advisory Council of UT Austin’s McCombs Energy Initiative (MEI), including Co-Chairing the Midstream Committee The Energy 2.0 Committee of the Greater Houston Partnership The Advisory Board of the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship

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