C Ray Lees > Porter Hedges LLP > Oklahoma City, United States > Lawyer Profile

C Ray Lees

405.254.5725 rlees@porterhedges.com View profile

Work Department

Energy Transactions

Position

Ray Lees focuses on advising oil and gas companies on corporate transactional and commercial matters, with an emphasis on upstream and midstream oil and gas transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, finance, and real estate. He has advised clients on some of the oil and gas industry’s largest conventional and unconventional oil and gas acquisition and divestiture transactions, including deals with a combined value of more than $100 billion over the last fifteen years in the Bakken, Barnett, Eagle Ford, Fayetteville, Haynesville, Marcellus, Mississippi Lime, Niobrara, Permian, SCOOP, STACK, Uinta, and Utica plays. He has also counseled clients in equity commitments from private investors and energy financing transactions involving oil and gas and midstream assets across the country.

Ray’s oil and gas experience includes negotiating and drafting purchase and sale agreements, swap agreements, development agreements, limited liability company agreements, transition services agreements, seismic licenses, mineral leases, royalty agreements, net profit interest agreements, marketing agreements, and other agreements and instruments customary in connection with oil & gas joint ventures, acquisitions, and divestitures.

Ray is recognized by Chambers USA, for his Energy practice. He was also named “Lawyer of the Year” for Mergers and Acquisitions Law by Best Lawyers in America in 2017.

Prior to joining the Porter Hedges, Mr. Lees was the managing partner at the Commercial Law Group, P.C. in Oklahoma City.

Memberships

Oklahoma Bar Association, Member

American Bar Association, Member

Education

J.D., University of Oklahoma College of Law

B.A., Southwestern Oklahoma State University