T. Shane Sandefer

"Having worked as an engineer prior to the law, I provide truly practical advice that goes beyond just legal analysis and is grounded in actionable solutions that make sense for my client’s business and parallels their operational and financial imperatives."

Shane Sandefer is a proven business law transactional advisor, regulatory counselor, Registered Professional Engineer, and title agent who navigates local, regional, and national industrial, renewable energy businesses, individuals, and other organizations through real estate, finance, and environmental transactions and other regulatory challenges. He thrives in assembling the pieces of the often complex commercial puzzle his client seeks to achieve – all with a dedication to ensuring the result reflects their distinct vision.

Shane brings decades of experience to advising on industrial, renewable energy, and commercial real estate transactions, title insurance matters, general preparation and negotiation, regulatory proceedings, solar and wetlands permitting, wetlands mitigation, and state and federal environmental initiatives. He delivers comprehensive legal solutions to sales, leasing, property law, purchase and sale agreements, environmental assessments, and wetlands issues, as well as guides clients through the many aspects of environmental regulatory law, including permitting, compliance, enforcement, and transactional matters.

Shane is personally dedicated to ensuring his clients understand their legal options at every turn. Whether Shane is involved in a pipeline acquisition, easement issues, or advising on regulatory change, he is a pragmatist at the core. A smart and swift problem-solver, Shane believes in providing easily understood assessments of the pros, cons, risks, and opportunities of each client’s options for realizing their long- and short-term business agendas.

After many years of hands-on skill and successful practice as both an engineer and legal advisor, Shane brings a deep bench of technological and legal know-how to industrial and commercial projects of all kinds. He understands, from first-hand and earned experience, how such initiatives are conceived, designed, constructed, and executed from all angles. Shane is very aware of the potential obstructions to progress for such endeavors and delivers legal advice that reflects this multi-dimensional perspective.

Notably, Shane serves as a title agent for First American Title Insurance Company, Fidelity National Title Insurance Company, Chicago Title Insurance Company, and Stewart Title Guaranty Company.

Prior to the law, Shane worked as a Project Engineer for Turner Environmental and as a Senior Staff Engineer for URS. He also served as an Assistant Project Manager for Cajun Constructors and worked in the Hazardous Waste Enforcement group at the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality.

A Registered Professional Engineer, Shane assisted various municipal, commercial, and industrial clients with environmental permitting, wetlands permitting, solid and hazardous waste management and remediation, environmental sampling, geotechnical engineering design, geotechnical investigations, watershed modeling, and hydraulic design.