Grundy & Associates is dedicated to providing a full range of legal services on domestic and foreign oil and gas matters with a focus on representing owners of domestic mineral and royalty interests and non-operated working interests. We represent individuals, families, trusts, estates, LLCs, family partnerships, corporations, banks and trust companies. Our clients are often unfamiliar with the oil and gas industry and need expert legal representation in order to obtain maximum value for their interests with proper legal protections. Oil companies have legal representation – mineral and royalty owners should too. Our clients own interests in over sixty counties in Texas and also Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, New Mexico, Kansas, California, Alabama, Florida, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Canada and Germany.
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Our domestic services are:
- Negotiating oil and gas leases designed to obtain maximum value and protection including surface use and rights
- Mineral and royalty deeds, assignments and other conveyances of all types of oil and gas interests
- Purchase and sale of oil and gas interests
- Title research and legal analysis to determine accurate ownership of oil and gas interests and interpretation of legal documents
- Recovery of suspended and escheated funds
- Advising families on succession planning and asset management issues
- Formation of limited liability companies and limited partnerships for efficient and prudent mineral ownership
- Resolving disputes between mineral owners, oil and gas companies, and other parties
- Advising working interest owners on participation agreements, operating agreements, joint interest billings and AFEs (authorizations for expenditure)
- Legal representation in disputes or contested transactions related to the above
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Our international services include the following:
- International business transactions
- New ventures and international due diligence
- Anti-corruption and economic sanctions compliance programs, including:
- Codes of business conduct,
- Due diligence review of – and agreements with - third party representatives, and
- Compliance training seminars for company employees and representatives
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