Peter Hays

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Peter Hays is a commercial oil and gas lawyer. Peter represents companies and entrepreneurs in upstream, midstream, and downstream hydrocarbons transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and project development. He practices both domestically and internationally, onshore and offshore. Peter is board certified in Oil, Gas and Mineral Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.

Mr. Hays has been focused on oil and gas for his entire legal career. Before entering private practice, he clerked for Chief Judge Hayden Head of the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas, and in law school at the University of Texas he was a research clerk for Professor Ernest E. Smith, Rex G. Baker Centennial Chair in Natural Resources Law.