Midstream
Haynes and Boone lawyers have been representing leaders in the global oil and gas industry for more than 40 years. Our experience and our offices located near key oil and gas producing basins allow us to provide efficient service tailored to match our clients’ specific needs on matters involving crude oil, natural gas, and liquids. Our midstream team is part of our Energy, Power and Natural Resources Practice Group that includes more than 100 lawyers, landmen, and energy analysts who work closely with all practice areas of the firm to provide clients advice on transactional, regulatory, environmental and dispute-related matters.
We also advise clients on U.S. and Mexico cross-border pipeline matters and we have been serving clients from our Mexico City office for more than 20 years.
Our clients include:
- Majors and independents
- National oil companies
- Pipeline companies
- Private equity firms
- Financial institutions
- Investors
- Master limited partnerships (MLPs)
Our lawyers handle a wide variety of midstream matters ranging from:
- Project development and financing of oil and gas pipelines, gathering systems, and distribution systems
- Storage, transport and terminaling arrangements
- Supply and off take arrangements
- Mergers, acquisitions and divestitures of pipelines and storage assets
- Joint ventures
- Operational matters involving vessel, truck, rail and pipelines
- FERC and Texas Railroad Commission regulatory matters
- Environmental matters
- Restructuring
- Commodities trading
- Feedstock related agreements for power plants
- Litigation and arbitration
- Interconnect, exchange and terminal agreements
- Processing and throughput agreements
- Real estate related advice
- Rights of way, condemnation, licenses and permitting matters
- Tax related advice
Haynes and Boone, LLP Partner Austin Elam was quoted in a Law360 article discussing energy deal trends in 2022. Below is an excerpt: There's one word that sums up the past year of energy dealmaking: uneven. Plenty of mergers and acquisitions got done in 2022, but attorneys say geopolitical and economic turmoil created choppy waters for both oil and gas and clean energy companies. Oil and Gas [...]

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