PRACTICE

Energy, Gas, & Oil

Overview

Pierson Ferdinand has a comprehensive Energy, Oil, and Gas practice that encompasses a wide spectrum of legal services and we committed to providing comprehensive legal support to clients in the dynamic and multifaceted energy, oil, and gas industry.

  • Trial-Tested Litigation Prowess

    Our Litigation team excels in discerning the critical aspects of a case and collaborates closely with our clients to ensure that litigation is managed in a manner that advances their ultimate objectives.  We work diligently to resolve immediate issues and help our clients avoid similar challenges in the future, while at the same time striving to provide value-add to our clients in an effective representation.

  • Bench Strength and Industry Experienced

    PierFerd Litigation partners provide clients across various industries globally with comprehensive commercial litigation and dispute resolution services. From coast to coast, in state and federal courts, our experience spans from appellate to high-stakes commercial and corporate fraud litigation, to IP and Insurance related disputes, with the ability to scale up for our clients as and when necessary. 

  • Client-Focused Approach to Disputes

    We view our seasoned litigators as an extension of our clients' in-house legal teams, working collaboratively to achieve optimal outcomes through strategic partnership, early intervention, and a comprehensive approach to dispute resolution.

  • Team-Orientated, Comprehensive Strategies

    We seamlessly collaborate with other PierFerd practice groups to leverage and bring to bear the appropriate industry experience wherever necessary, ensuring litigation strategies are comprehensively addressed, including matters related to banking and financial services, cyber-risk, healthcare, insurance, intellectual property, employment and labor, real estate, among others.

Capabilities

We offer support in commercial contract preparation and negotiation, environmental permitting and litigation, intellectual property protection (covering trade secrets, patent prosecution, and IP litigation), financial services and lending, international transactions, corporate compliance and administrative law, corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, securities, private equity law, bankruptcy law, immigration, and litigation.

With partners in key geographic locations, we have attracted attorneys with substantial experience in upstream, midstream, and downstream energy and oil and gas matters.  Our attorneys bring extensive knowledge in various aspects, from lease acquisition and unit formation to seismic exploration, refinery and terminal project finance, land use, surface easements, drilling of vertical and horizontal wells, hydraulic fracturing, water disposal, oil and gas gathering and processing, allocation of production, royalty valuation, measurement, and the transmission and marketing of oil and gas and refined products.