Energy & Minerals Projects

We draw on the M&A experience and knowledge throughout the firm to assist and represent clients in transactions, whether as buyer or seller, or in connection with financing, including: due diligence in such areas as title/real estate, water rights, contracts, environmental and permitting, and HR/benefits; contract negotiation, preparation, and closing activity/documentation, including deeds and title conveyance instruments, permit transfers, contract assignments, and transfer of water rights; state and local tax issues; and financing-related instruments and legal opinions.

The firm has extensive history working with clients on projects and transactions in the mining industry, including M&A transactions. Mining is an industry with unique issues and challenges, and we work closely with clients to address them, including title review/opinions, patented or unpatented mining claims, millsites, tunnel sites, and royalties. We also represent clients in litigation on mining specific issues, including condemnation and royalties, and advise and represent clients on the complex permitting and environmental matters associated with mines, including reclamation and mine closure, and associated litigation or CERCLA proceedings.

The firm is a recognized leader in oil and gas law and brings decades of experience to our oil and gas work, assisting clients on a myriad of oil and gas projects and transactions, including M&A transactions.  The oil and gas industry presents unique issues and challenges, and we work with clients to meet those challenges in: title review and opinions covering complex exploratory units and drillsite spacing units that contain such things as riverbeds, cities, and railroads; regulatory matters before state oil and gas conservation boards, including spacing and unitization; surface access and split estate issues; federal or Indian oil and gas lease issues; permitting and environmental matters; and litigation services covering all types of oil and gas specific issues, including royalty litigation, and post regulatory and litigation matters such as IBLA appeals and state and federal appeals.  We also provide services on financing-related instruments and issue related legal opinions.

The firm’s renewable energy team assists developers, lenders, and other clients in the development of renewable energy related projects and transactions, including wind energy and solar energy projects. Our lawyers provide a broad range of services, including: due diligence; permitting on private, federal, state, and Indian lands; industrial siting (including nuclear); public service commission or other regulatory approvals; environmental issues, including NEPA and state equivalent processes for EIS or EA activity, and avian and threatened and endangered species issues; construction; preparing transaction agreements and related documents; condemnation; acquisitions and divestitures; and financing and financing opinions.

We utilize our many years of experience with linear facilities to guide clients planning to build such facilities, clients facing issues with existing facilities, or on M&A transactions involving linear facilities. Our services include: acquisition of easements, and related land access/acquisition activity, such as leases; condemnation in either federal or state court when voluntary easements cannot be obtained; permitting and environmental, including state and local requirements and public service commission or other regulatory approvals; state and local tax issues; and financing-related instruments and legal opinions.

We draw on the experience and knowledge throughout the firm to assist and represent clients on M&A transactions involving industrial facilities, or clients planning to build facilities, or with projects involving existing facilities. These include power generation facilities and refineries. Our services on such projects or transactions include: title review and opinions, land and easement acquisitions, and condemnation; permitting and environmental, including state and local requirements and public service commission or other regulatory approvals; state and local tax issues; and financing-related instruments and legal opinions.