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Practice/Industry Group Overview

The Gardere Energy Industry Team is a multi-disciplinary group of approximately 60 attorneys with diverse backgrounds, experience and skills specific to the energy industry.  Our team understands and regularly practices in virtually every segment of the energy sector representing a wide variety of industry participants from multi-national corporations to individuals – from well-head to burner tip and turbine to power plug.

Many Energy Industry Team attorneys have served as in-house counsel for major energy companies,  providing a depth of insight into our clients’ needs, issues and concerns.  Our team represents companies and individuals throughout North America, Mexico and overseas in a broad variety of strategic initiatives, as well as meeting day-to-day challenges.  The Energy Industry Team provides extraordinary responsiveness and service to energy clients in a broad range of practice specialties including energy infrastructure development, project finance, routine contracting, mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, bankruptcy and workout transactions, environmental and permitting, arbitration and litigation, joint ventures, and finance transactions.
 
Industry Segment Served
  • Exploration and Production
  • Natural Gas, NGLs and LNG
  • Energy Services
  • Pipelines and Gathering
  • Power Plants and Electricity
  • Project Development and Project Finance
  • Refining
  • Renewables
  • Trading
  • Energy Finance
  • Maritime
 Practice Areas
  • Transactional
  • Tax
  • Environmental
  • Litigation
  • Bankruptcy
  • Regulatory and Legislative
  • Intellectual Property
 Representative Engagements
  • Purchase and sale of producing oil and gas properties and related production facilities, platforms, terminals and gathering systems.
  • Sharing agreements and joint venture, operating, and financing agreements.
  • Procurement of governmental permits, orders and authorizations primarily with the Minerals Management Service for Outer Continental Shelf exploration and production.
  • Contracts for drilling, participations, production facility, platform and terminal, facility acquisition, and construction involving platforms, terminals, drilling rigs, caissons, pipelines and plants.
  • Construction and operation of offshore facilities, platforms, terminals, gathering systems and mobile drilling units.
  • Production payment financing.
  • Seismic data management on a license and proprietary basis.
  • Refining and processing of oil and gas.
  • Purchase and sale of facilities for separation, fractionalization and refining/processing of natural gas and liquid hydrocarbons.
  • Processing and storage of natural gas liquids.
  • Distribution and marketing of oil, natural gas and NGLs.
  • Construction and operation of onshore and offshore pipelines for natural gas and NGLs.
  • Transportation Agreements for natural gas and NGLs.
  • Acquisitions and project finance of electric transmission assets.
  • Negotiations for chartering of marine vessels; Fleet transportation leases and purchases.
  • Arrests and foreclosures of offshore drilling rigs.
  • Mergers and acquisitions; asset acquisitions and divestitures for energy assets.
  • Power and gas book acquisitions and sales.
  • ­Joint ventures, partnerships, and strategic alliances.
  • Financings, asset securitizations, and structured finance for lenders and borrowers.
  • Physical and financial energy commodities matters, wholesale and retail.
  • Infrastructure development and project finance.
  • Tolling agreements, power purchase agreements (wholesale and retail), facility operations and maintenance agreements, and energy outsourcing agreements.
  • Complex tax matters related to the energy sector.
  • Public offerings of debt and equity.
  • Loans, workouts and restructurings.
  • Specialized energy industry bankruptcy and reorganization services.
  • Energy arbitration and litigation.