Representative Experience

• Representing exploration and production company in a class action brought by royalty owners claiming improper deduction of post-production expenses. The class involved approximately 3,571 oil and gas leases and over 3,400 royalty owners.
• Represented exploration and production company in a 5-day arbitration involving breach of a long term oil supply agreement for assets in the Uintah Basin.
• Represented exploration and production company in a 2-week jury trial in West Virginia concerning an area of mutual interest agreement covering over 20,000 acres in oil and gas leases in the Appalachian Basin.
• Represented the largest regional bank in Utah, Zions Bank, in connection with numerous class action and individual investor claims alleging that the bank aided and abetted the largest Ponzi scheme securities fraud in Utah history. Successfully settled all claims for less than litigation costs.
• Represented regional bank in a merger dispute in which acquiring bank claimed that client failed to use commercial reasonable efforts to obtain shareholder votes to approve the merger. Successfully obtained dismissal of claims against the board of directors. Case settled on favorable terms.
• Represented sellers of a gas utility company in a dispute over asset valuation, and indemnity and earn out obligations under a stock purchase agreement. Case settled on favorable terms.
• Represented exploration and production company in a 4-week jury trial in which T. Boone Pickens claimed the client breached an area of mutual interest agreement covering the Permian Basin and sought $1.4 billion in damages. Obtained dismissal of tort claims and judgment notwithstanding the verdict that set aside jury findings against client.