Advising clients across the full oil and gas spectrum, including exploration, development, production, and transportation, Holland & Knight LLP handles complex transactions and routine operational issues, with added experience in guiding clients through the evolving energy transition to lower-carbon solutions. Jim Noe leads the team from Washington, DC. Co-head Seth Belzley splits his time between Denver and Houston and is highly regarded by companies operating in the midstream sector, with recent work focused on the acquisition of production facilities, terminals, and pipelines. Co-head Robert Dougherty operates from Dallas and brings extensive experience handling transactions across various basins, advising both domestic and international oil and gas players. Dallas’ Andrew Derman, whose work spans domestic and cross-border M&A as well as commercial agreements, is praised as one of the ‘very best’ oil and gas lawyers, with a ’unique understanding of the industry‘. Ram Sunkara rotates between Dallas and Atlanta and has a diverse practice that spans upstream and midstream acquisitions and disposals, as well as project counsel, with a particular focus on the LNG sector.
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‘Holland & Knight are absolutely the best in terms of their knowledge of international oil and gas and energy law. Unrivalled expertise of the international energy industry.’
‘Andrew Derman is absolutely brilliant. Andrew is in his own class above the very best and has unique knowledge of the industry. Andrew is absolutely pleasure to work with and can win any argument, no matter how complex.’
Key clients
- Alpha Energy Partners
- Grey Rock Investment Partners
- Hawaiian Airlines
- Howard Midstream Energy Partners
- INEOS Energy
- Neste Oyj
- Murchison Oil & Gas
- Riley Exploration Permian, Inc.
- Suburban Propane Partners L.P.
- Verbio North America Holdings Corporation
Work highlights
Advised QuarterNorth Energy Inc. in its $1.29 billion acquisition by Talos Energy Inc.
Represented Esso S.A.F., the France-based affiliate of ExxonMobil Corp. in the pending sale of its Fos-sur-Mer refinery and Toulouse and Villette de Vienne fuel terminals in southern France to Rhone Energies, a consortium of commodity trader Trafigura and Entara LLC
Represented ARM Energy Holdings, LLC in its sale of a minority interest in ARM Energy Trading, LLC, which is comprised of ARM Energy Services and ARM Energy Mexico, one of the largest private North American physical natural gas marketers, to Tokyo Gas America Ltd.
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Leading partners
The strongest partners in their field, leading on market-leading deals and endorsed by peers and clients alike.
Practice head
Seth Belzley; Robert Dougherty; Jim Noe
Other key lawyers
Andrew Derman; Ram Sunkara; James Brown; Douglas Lionberger; Ryan Phelps