Diamond McCarthy’s energy and natural resource group handles a broad spectrum of issues and disputes across the sector. We act as advisors and counselors to our clients and are trusted to handle high-stakes litigation and arbitration in the United States and overseas. Our experience within energy and natural resources has evolved significantly over decades of representing clients from our origins in the oil patch of Texas to developing an international practice in which we have acted for clients across the globe from the US, Cayman Islands, Latin America, Africa, Europe, and others.
Diamond McCarthy’s practice relies on a multi-disciplinary approach to deconstruct the vast array of complex issues that arise in the sector, and we are accomplished in navigating our clients through complicated jurisdictions. Our clients include domestic and foreign energy and natural resources producers, service and midstream companies, and terminals as well as governments and leading financial institutions that provide capital to the industry. We actively represent foreign and US domestic companies in cross-border disputes here in the US and in a wide array of jurisdictions around the world. Our entrenched relationships network of firms, experts, and consultants enable us to service our clients’ needs in a variety of technical areas and venues around the globe.
Energy Litigation
Our litigation team has handled high-stakes and most complex disputes in the energy sector across the united states and abroad. For example:
- Multiple billion-dollar contract disputes and price renegotiations
- Defense of royalty litigation
- Prosecution of pipeline supply contracts
- Forced liquidations
- Fraud
- Breach of fiduciary duty
- Contract claims
- Joint operating agreements
- Liens and mortgages on mineral interests
- All aspects of lien perfection issues
- Transfers and assignments of leases
- Working interests and overriding royalty interests
- Oil and gas reserve issues
- Valuation
Cross-Practice Experience
We have a particular concentration in areas that include financial distress situations including insolvency, intellectual property, and energy and natural resources. Diamond McCarthy’s energy and natural resource team works closely with industry experts to adopt a contextualized, multi-disciplinary approach when needing to tackle complicated and sometimes novel international law issues.
Recent examples of our work include:
- Fraudulent Transfer, Negligent and Intentional Misrepresentation, Tortious Interference, Unjust Enrichment and Alter Ego/Piercing the corporate veil, and unfair business practices.
- Asserting claims for negligent and intentional misrepresentation arising from a dispute over construction of a gas-fired power plant.
- Dispute resolution and renegotiation of Natural Gas, Power, and other energy supply contracts.
- Complicated workouts and bankruptcy related proceedings with power companies.
- Evaluating and advising on how to renegotiate large uneconomic energy contracts including force majeure provisions.
- Representing minority and majority shareholders, and JV partners in various in natural gas pipeline, oil and mining disputes.