Solutions-Focused. Results-Oriented.
Sprouse Shrader Smith has extensive experience providing customized legal services for the oil, gas, energy and other natural resources industries. We pride ourselves on helping our clients achieve their goals.
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Practice Distinctions
Several of our attorneys have served as in-house counsel for oil and gas companies, giving us a deeper understanding of the industry’s business aspects. We have the unique ability to handle large-scale title projects within our clients’ time frames, with more than 15 experienced title attorneys available.
Where We Work
In addition to significant title work in Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico — with several attorneys licensed to practice in those states — we represent clients at all phases of upstream oil and gas operations.
We represent large publicly held companies as well as small independent companies and landowners in the area.
Oil & Gas Legal Services
Acquiring & developing resource plays
Asset & equity purchase and sale agreements
Title opinions (drilling, division order, acquisition & lending)
Joint operating & farmout agreements
Partnerships & joint ventures
Horizontal well issues/allocation wells
Secondary recovery
Royalty payment questions
Mineral lease review & negotiation
Equity raises (private placement memoranda)
Surface use agreements, surface leases & easements
Conflicts between mineral & surface estate
Poolings & unitizations
Royalty, net-profit & carried-interest agreements
Construction & ownership agreements
Project management contracts
Title due diligence
Lending
Oil & Gas Attorneys
Doug Brooking
Member
J. Shane Brooks
Member
Eric A. Clinton
Member
Josh Flores
Member
John S. Irwin
Member
Brantley Jones
Member
Taylor Kelley
Member
Courtney McWhorter
Member
Matt Sadler
Member
Jeff Shrader
Member
Michelle L. Sibley
Member
Kimberly Warminski
Member
Timothy C. Williams
Member
Collin Ziegler
Associate
Zachary Zimmer
Associate
