• Represented IOG Capital LP in multiple DrillCo transactions to develop oil and gas assets throughout Texas and other parts of the country.
• Represented Abraxas Petroleum Corporation in the formation of a joint venture with a Colorado-based private equity fund to develop oil-rich and natural gas liquids-rich assets in the Eagle Ford shale formation. The joint venture involved a contribution of oil and gas properties with an approximate value of $300 million to the joint venture in exchange for a capital commitment by the joint venturer to ensure future influxes of capital for exploration and development purposes.
• Represented a Texas-based oil and gas exploration company in the private offering of interests in a limited partnership holding company.
• Represented privately owned oil and gas companies in the negotiation, preparation and closing of Barnett Shale acreage in Texas, including the rendering of title opinions related to these properties.
• Represented landowners in negotiations of oil and gas leases, surface use agreements, pipeline easements, seismic agreements and similar agreements related to upstream exploration and production.
• Represented oil and gas operators in negotiating and drafting Joint Operating Agreements, Area of Mutual Interest Agreement, Joint Development Agreements, Master Services Agreements, Transition Services Agreements and other similar instruments.
• Represented an oil and gas well drilling services provider in sale of substantially all of its assets, including drilling rigs, workover rigs, haul trucks, piping and additional assets to a competitor seeking to expand its operations into the Eagle Ford Shale area.
• Represented a prospective purchaser of undergrounded depleted reservoir storage facilities in conducting preliminary due diligence and negotiating deal terms.
• Represented Abraxas Petroleum Corporation (NASDAQ: AXAS) in the sale of its non–operated Bakken assets in North Dakota to Natural Resource Partners L.P. (NYSE: NRP) for $38.3 million, after accounting for purchase price adjustments.
• Represented an Austin-based private energy company in the acquisition of overriding royalty interests in the Utica Shale in Columbia County, Ohio.
• Represented private E&P company in the sale of producing and non-producing Eagle Ford Shale Formation leasehold assets in South Texas in a transaction with a total potential value of $78 million (inclusive of the option purchase price).
• Represented numerous owners of large South Texas ranches in the negotiation of pipeline easement agreements with both oil and gas exploration companies and major interstate pipeline companies with statutory powers of eminent domain.

• Rising Star, Super Lawyers – Rising Stars by Thomson Reuters, 2019
• Best Lawyers in Dallas, D Magazine, 2018
• Best Lawyer, S.A. Scene, 2015
• Rising Star, S.A. Scene, 2013, 2015

Speeches

• “What Every General Counsel Should Know About CEO’s with Ranches: Hunting Events and Game Ranch Liability,” Association of Corporate Council’s “Wine and Weapons – What Every South Texas Corporate Counsel Needs To Know,” June 8, 2012.
• “Accounting for Change: How the Accounting Profession Will Thrive in the Current Economic, Tax and Political Environment,” 2017 Energy Conference, Austin, Texas, May 16, 2017.
• “Legal and Regulatory Update,” Whitley Penn Energy Forum, Dallas, Texas, December 6, 2017.

Publications

• “Title to Uranium and Other Minerals (Still Crazy After All These Years),” Oil, Gas and Energy Resources Law Section, February 2, 2009 (co-authored with Peter Hosey).
• “Are We There Yet? The Start And Finish of an Oil and Gas Lease,” Section Report of the Oil, Gas & Energy Resources Law Section of the State Bar of Texas, 2011 (co-authored with Peter Hosey).
• “Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are: Constructive Notice of Unrecorded Agreements in Oil and Gas Titles, ” 29th Annual Advanced Oil, Gas and Energy Resources Law Course, October 6 & 7, 2011 (co-authored with Peter Hosey).
• “Structures for Deploying Private Capital in Upstream Oil and Gas Projects,” Energy Leadership Series, Dallas, Texas, September 25, 2018.
• “Joint Exploration and Development Agreements,” XXXIII Review of Oil and Gas Law, Energy Section of the Dallas Bar Association, August 2, 2018.

• State Bar of Texas, Oil, Gas and Energy Resources Law Section, Member
• Dallas Bar Association, Natural Resources Section, Member
• Young Professionals in Energy, Member
• Texas Bar Foundation, Fellow