Emily Breaux Wright

Associate

  • Lafayette
"My career began in real estate, where I learned that a contract is only as good as the parties’ ability to close the deal. I bring that perspective to every transaction, helping clients understand and allocate legal risk in a way that protects their interests, while advancing their business objectives. I take a practical approach that keeps negotiations moving. Good counsel should find a path forward by clarifying what matters, resolving what doesn’t, and help get the transaction across the finish line."

Emily Breaux Wright practices with the business, oil and gas, and real estate practice groups, serving as valued outside counsel to lenders, businesses, energy companies, and healthcare providers on pivotal deals that drive their growth. She focuses her practice on commercial lending and banking transactions, commercial, development, and industrial real estate transactions, oil and gas title opinions, and health law transactions, as well as business entity formations, corporate mergers and acquisitions, and title insurance. She is a Licensed Title Insurance Agent.

Emily regularly represents lenders and borrowers in significant commercial loan transactions, including syndicated and participated credit facilities, and negotiates and drafts loan agreements, security instruments, and collateral documents secured by real estate and other assets.

She also represents buyers, sellers, developers, commercial landlords, and tenants in major commercial, development, and industrial real estate transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions, site development, and complex commercial and industrial leases.

In addition, she advises business owners, large and small, on general business matters including, entity formation, employment agreements, key contracts and governing documents, and business succession planning, as well as on legal and strategic challenges.

Emily prepares oil and gas title opinions, including drilling, division order, and acquisition title opinions, and advises operators, mineral owners, and lenders on mineral, royalty, and leasehold title issues in connection with leasing, acquisitions, and energy financing. She manages mineral title examinations, resolves complex mineral title issues, and provides guidance on upstream and midstream oil and gas initiatives.

Emily also has a robust health law transactional practice, advising physicians, practice groups, and healthcare organizations on physician and medical professional employment agreements, physician recruitment agreements, purchases and sales of medical practices, physician departures from practice groups, and business formation and general healthcare matters.

  • Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2016
    • Editorial Board Editor, Loyola Law Review
  • University of Louisiana at Lafayette, B.G.S., Communications and Public Relations, 2010

Bar Admissions

  • Louisiana

Courts

  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
  • U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana
  • U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana
  • “Ones to Watch,” The Best Lawyers in America, 2024
  • “Top Lawyers,” Acadiana Profile, 2024-2025