BakerHostetler’s Energy Team “impresses with its ‘excellent response times, and strong business and industry knowledge’. The team is particularly strong in the oilfield services sector."
– Legal 500 2018
Members of BakerHostetler’s Energy team, recognized as an Energy Group of the Year by Law360, have successfully secured major projects for leading international and domestic energy companies and service providers with interests in oil, natural gas (including shale) and alternative energy sources. From financing to land acquisitions, exploration to drilling, and production to distribution—our business, litigation and regulatory knowledge affords clients the leverage they need in a highly demanding marketplace.
On the business side, we’ve handled large-scale stock and asset acquisitions and dispositions of energy companies and their assets, including acquisitions and dispositions of proved and unproved oil and gas properties, natural gas gathering systems, drilling rigs and related equipment. We have represented issuers and underwriting syndicates in public offerings of oil and gas company debt and equity securities and managed private placement of energy company debt and equity securities with commercial banks, insurance companies and other institutional investors.
Energy production is a process with unlimited challenges and legal disputes. We help you resolve litigation arising from contractual disputes involving oil and gas leases, joint operating agreements, joint development agreements, exploration and development agreements, drilling contracts, licensing agreements, patent infringement, offshore environmental compliance and oil spill issues. Our work has included lease disputes involving over $1 billion in claims, defense of major antitrust lawsuits that could have resulted in hundreds of millions in damages and representation of the world's largest integrated energy company in federal litigation involving a dispute over development rights and ownership.
We share our clients’ interest in the safe development of energy and can help you work cooperatively with regulatory bodies on the local, state and national level. We can guide you through regulatory project approval and compliance efforts, help you understand rulemakings, navigate regulatory proceedings (including appeals), and help you obtain fair penalty resolution. For our international producers and operators, we also aid with international commercial and regulatory matters, including a host of maritime and offshore issues.