Allison MacKinnon

Practice Areas

Allison MacKinnon is a commercially focused legal advisor that represents publicly traded and privately held companies in a wide range of mining, oil & gas, and renewable energy projects and transactions. She has represented clients in a variety of domestic and international mining and oil & gas projects and transactions, including drafting and negotiating purchase and sale agreements and exchange agreements for equity and asset transactions and joint venture, development, option and farm-in / farmout agreements for earn-in and joint venture transactions. She also represents mining, upstream E&P, midstream and renewable energy companies in the negotiation and drafting of a wide array of real property instruments, including leases (mining, oil & gas, solar and wind), royalty instruments, easements, surface use agreements, and water, crude oil and gas gathering, processing and disposal agreements.

Ms. MacKinnon also serves as outside general counsel for emerging energy companies, including private equity-backed portfolio companies, advising executive management, finance, and land teams on a variety of corporate, land, legal, and employment matters, and negotiating and drafting a variety of commercial agreements pertaining to their day-to-day operations. She also has experience advising her clients on corporate formation, ownership structure, and governance and often serves as a key advisor on corporate risk assessment and management.

Career

Member, Audit and Risk Management Committee of The Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law (2018–present)

Trustee, The Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law, Colorado Bar Association (2018–present)

Denver Petroleum Club Mentor Program (2017)

At-Large Position, CBA Natural Resources and Energy Law Section Executive Committee (2016–2018)

Publications

Co-Presenter, “Purchase & Sale Agreements and Due Diligence in Oil and Gas Transactions,” Denver Association of Lease and Title Analysts (November 2018)

Co-Author, “Lessee and Transferee Qualifications,” Law of Federal Oil & Gas Leases (2016)

Co-Author and Co-Presenter, “Overview of Complicating Factors Affecting Title,” Nuts and Bolts of Mineral Title Examination, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation (April 2015)

Work Highlights

Represented TXO Partners LP (NYSE: TXO) in its $225 million definitive agreement to acquire operated and non-operated oil & gas leases and wells in the Greater Williston Basin in North Dakota and Montana from Eagle Mountain Energy Partners

Represented Civitas Resources (NYSE: CIVI) in the sale of oil & gas working interests, royalty interests and developed and undeveloped wellbores in the DJ Basin for $85 million to IOG Resources

Divestiture of operated and non-operated oil and gas leases and wells and midstream assets spanning Colorado, Wyoming & Montana for $30 million

Exchange of operated DJ basin oil & gas assets between two of the largest operators in the basin

Acquisition of producing non-operated oil and gas assets in New Mexico for $55 million

Option and earn-in agreement to explore 400,000 acres in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan with the only active, operating high-grade nickel mine in the United States

Divestiture of non-operated oil and gas assets in North Dakota for $72 million

Acquisition of producing oil and gas assets and CO2 plant in New Mexico and Colorado for $180 million

Acquisition of producing oil and gas assets in New Mexico for $44 million

Divestiture of ceramic proppant manufacturing facilities in Georgia

Acquisition of Oxy Land Grant assets in Wyoming, Colorado and Utah for $1.33 billion

Divestiture by public oil and gas company of upstream assets in Wyoming for $350 million

Acquisitions by public oil and gas company of upstream and midstream assets in Appalachian Basin with aggregate value in excess of $100 million

Exchange of 25,000 acres by public oil and gas company in DJ Basin valued at $130 million

Acquisition by public oil and gas company of upstream and midstream assets in the Ventura Basin of California valued in excess of $40 million

Numerous asset exchange agreements covering upstream assets in Colorado and Wyoming

DrillCo joint ventures by private oil and gas company in the Permian Basin in excess of $250 million

Preparation of domestic and international mining joint venture and option agreements

Representation of management team of privately held oil and gas company in private equity transaction with a $500 million capital commitment