Jean-Luc M. Delpy

With extensive experience in complex mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, joint ventures, and project development, Jean-Luc regularly represents clients in the power, energy, civil infrastructure, electric vehicle (EV), and airport concession industries. Prior to Baker Donelson, he spent nearly eight years as in-house counsel at a Fortune 500 global power and utility company, where he offered legal advice and supported project development, mergers and acquisitions, and strategic alliances.

Jean-Luc also handles commercial legal matters, including drafting and negotiating term sheets, letters of intent, master service agreements, and other contracts. Additionally, he regularly counsels clients on corporate governance, entity formation and dissolution, internal reorganizations, and compliance issues.

• Energy & Infrastructure

• Represented the buyer in the purchase of an oil field services company.

• Represented a leading civil infrastructure company in the acquisition of civil infrastructure services, product, and retail businesses.

• Represented the sellers of a shipyard in Port Arthur, Texas.

• Represented the buyer of a development-stage solar power generation project in Kentucky.

• Represented the buyer of development-stage battery energy storage projects in Oklahoma and Missouri.

• Represented a minority partner in the sale of its entire interest in a 1.7 gigawatt (GW) coal-fired power facility in India.

• Represented the seller of a minority stake in a 1.4 GW portfolio of two combined-cycle gas generation power plants and two battery energy storage assets in California and Arizona.

• Represented the seller of a 1.4 GW portfolio of two thermal power plants and one energy storage facility in Northern Ireland.

• Represented the seller of 973 megawatts (MW) of thermal power plants in Ohio and Indiana.

• Represented the seller of a controlling interest in a 163 MW thermal power plant in Sri Lanka.

• Represented the seller of retail electric businesses serving customers in Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana.

• Represented the buyer of a leading residential and commercial and industrial (C&I) solar power project developer.

• Advised an EV startup on issues related to EV charger residential installation and the acquisition of public EV chargers from a public utility.

• Advised a public utility regarding the installation of EV chargers for C&I and public entity customers.

• Represented a founding member in the formation of and subsequent capital raise for a global joint venture for a battery-based energy storage technology.

• Represented a project developer in the formation of a joint venture for the construction and operation of a 10MW battery energy storage system in India.

• General Corporate

• Represented a leading global concessionaire in the acquisition of airport concessions in various airports in the United States.

• Represented a leading accounting firm in the acquisition of accounting and wealth management businesses.

• Represented a life sciences start-up with its Series A financing.

• Represented the founders in the sale of a safety technology and consulting business. 

• Represented the seller of a leading Gulf South home renovation business.

• Represented the founders in the sale of a pharmaceutical technology company.

• Represented the buyer of a riverboat casino and resort in Louisiana.

• Represented the owner of an insurance agency in the sale of the agency to a major global insurance broker.

• Listed in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch^® in America for Corporate Law (2023 – 2025)
• Selected as a Louisiana Rising Star in Mergers & Acquisitions (2024, 2025)

• "Corporate Transactions: Pandemic Has Changed How Deals Get Done," Biz New Orleans (November 2021)

• 30 Baker Donelson Attorneys Named to 2025 Louisiana Super Lawyers List (March 28, 2025)
• Baker Donelson Attorneys Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2025 Listing (August 15, 2024)
• 27 Baker Donelson Attorneys Named to 2024 Louisiana Super Lawyers List (December 19, 2023)
• Baker Donelson Attorneys Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America^® 2024 Listing (August 17, 2023)
• Baker Donelson Attorneys Earn Recognition in The Best Lawyers in America® 2023 Listing (August 18, 2022)