Marion W. Weinstock

Practice Areas

• Real Estate and Commercial Leasing

• Business Transactions and Entity Formation and Governance

• Commercial Financing and Secured Transactions

• Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures

• Construction

• Oil, Gas and Energy Transactions

• Oilfield Service Company Transactions

• Pipeline, Storage and Transmission

• Renewable Energy

• Title Services

• Banking

• Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Creditors' Rights

Career

Marion Weinstock serves as Chair of the Commercial Transactions Section for the firm. Her practice covers a wide range of commercial transactions. She has handled and closed real estate purchases and sales of apartment complexes, warehouses, shopping centers and other commercial properties and has negotiated and prepared commercial leases (for both landlords and tenants), purchase agreements, condominium documents, servitude agreements and many other types of contracts and agreements. Marion regularly represents chemical plants in negotiating and documenting acquisitions and sales of plants, the granting and obtaining of servitudes, easements, leases and other industrial real estate related agreements.

Marion has documented and closed financings involving all types of collateral, including real estate, state and offshore oil and gas leases, equipment, accounts receivable, securities, ships, vessels, partnership interests, rights-of-way, pipelines and letters of credit. She has negotiated loan work-outs and has rendered many third-party legal opinions in connection with financings, stock issuances, mergers and acquisitions and other corporate and partnership matters. She has handled several bank holding company reorganizations and has prepared proxy materials and private offering memoranda for stock issuances by banks and insurance and other companies. As a licensed title insurance agent and officer of Current Title Agency, L.L.C. (the Firm's title agency), Marion has prepared numerous title insurance policies on large commercial properties and has also advised in and out-of-state lenders on title and survey issues. She is also an approved attorney for Fidelity National Insurance Company and WFG National Title Insurance Company.

Prior to entering the private practice of law, Marion clerked for the Honorable Walter F. Marcus, Jr., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana. While in law school, she was a member of Tulane Law Review and graduated summa cum laude. She was also inducted into Order of the Coif and received the Faculty Medal for graduating first in her class.

Recognition:

• Ranked in Chambers USA, Real Estate, 2021 to Present; previously ranked for Banking & Finance

• New Orleans CityBusiness Leadership in Law honoree, 2023

• New Orleans CityBusiness Woman of the Year honoree, 2019 and 2020

• Named the 2022 & 2024 New Orleans Lawyer of the Year for Commercial Transactions / UCC Law by The Best Lawyers in America®

• Named the 2013, 2015 & 2024 New Orleans Lawyer of the Year for Securitization and Structured Finance Law, The Best Lawyers in America®

• Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® for Banking and Finance Law, Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships), Commercial Finance Law, Commercial Transactions / UCC Law, Corporate Law, Energy Law, Oil and Gas Law, Real Estate Law and Securitization and Structured Finance Law; listed in Best Lawyers since 2010

• Selected to Louisiana Super Lawyers, Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters), 2015 – 2020, 2023 - present

• Louisiana Bar Foundation – Fellow

• Named a New Orleans Magazine Top Lawyer – Mortgage Banking Foreclosure Law

• Rated Martindale-Hubbell® A-V Preeminent™

Professional Memberships

• Louisiana Bar Foundation - Fellow

• Louisiana Law Institute - UCC Committee

• Junior League of New Orleans - Sustaining Member

• Women's Energy Network

• Louisiana Chemical Association \ Louisiana Chemical Industry Alliance