Exploration and production companies, pipeline and storage operators, traders, refiners, oilfield services providers, private equity sponsors, and lenders turn to us to close complex transactions, structure sophisticated commodity and hedging arrangements, secure essential financing, manage regulatory risk, and protect their interests in high-stakes, contentious matters.
Our lawyers execute strategic oil and gas transactions across domestic and international markets. We have a long history representing clients in physical and financial commodity transactions, including structured offtake arrangements, supply and marketing contracts, and complex hedging and derivatives portfolios tied to crude oil, refined products, LNG, and natural gas. We advise on public and private M&A, acquisitions and divestitures of upstream and midstream assets and commodity trading portfolios, and joint ventures. Borrowers, lenders, and sponsors rely on us to structure trade and commodity prepay facilities, borrowing base financings, receivables and inventory finance, and other credit-supported trading arrangements. With multidisciplinary execution, we move efficiently from deal terms to closing while safeguarding value through tailored diligence, appropriate protections, and pragmatic, market-tested risk allocation.
Whether in court or arbitration, we are focused on the most advantageous outcomes for our clients, be it through early, negotiated resolution or bet-the-company litigation. Our disputes team, comprising seasoned litigators, experienced trial attorneys, international and domestic arbitrators, and appellate advocates, masters legal, technical, commercial, operational, and regulatory challenges at the forefront of the industry. We have extensive experience handling contentious issues involving construction contracts, crude and products offtake contracts, gas supply agreements, financial hedging agreements, sale and purchase agreements, shareholders’ agreements, production sharing agreements, joint operating agreements, farm-in agreements, and charterparty and affreightment contracts. Clients trust us for our proven ability to navigate warranty claims, well failures, transportation and storage disputes, indemnity and insurance recovery, and other business torts. With extensive knowledge of exploration, extraction, and transportation operations in both conventional and shale plays, combined with strong relationships with regulators, we synthesize technical, commercial, and regulatory information to craft persuasive strategies to address high-stakes royalty litigation; defeat class certification or claims in energy class actions; prevail in lease and payment claims; handle land use and real estate disputes; manage eminent domain for pipelines and storage; and defend against property damage and nuisance allegations.
Market volatility demands proactive counsel. We help clients navigate sanctions, tariffs, trade controls, and evolving environmental, health, and safety rules; structure resilient supply chains; and manage counterparty distress through workouts, restructurings, and insolvency processes. We advise on regulatory investigations and enforcement actions, and help structure compliance and training programs. Our projects and construction team steers EPC contracts from bid through commissioning, aligning risk around cost, schedule, and performance. We support LNG, storage, and cross-border shipping arrangements, including chartering and demurrage issues. Throughout, our industry fluency and integrated service model keep decision-makers informed, aligning legal strategy with commercial objectives and accelerating approvals, timelines, and returns across global assets and portfolios.
Services
- Structured offtake, supply, marketing, storage, transportation, and LNG arrangements
- Hedging, derivatives, and commodity risk-management programs
- Trade and commodity prepay facilities; borrowing base, receivables, and inventory finance
- Gathering, processing, transportation, EPC, project delivery, shipping, charterparty, and demurrage matters
- M&A and A&D of upstream and midstream assets and commodity trading portfolios; joint ventures
- Contract, pricing, and royalty claims, including class actions
- Construction, indemnity, insurance recovery, and business-tort disputes
- Land acquisition and eminent domain for pipelines, wells, underground storage, and related infrastructure
- Domestic and international arbitration
- Sanctions, tariffs, trade controls, EH&S compliance; regulatory investigations and enforcement
- Workouts, restructurings, insolvency, and supply chain resilience
Partner with us to advance your energy strategy with confidence.
