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- Grundy & Associates is dedicated to providing a full range of legal services on domestic oil and gas matters with a focus on the representation of owners of mineral and royalty interests and non-operated working interests.
- Our clients include 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.
- 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.
- Oil companies have legal representation - mineral and royalty owners should too.
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We can assist clients in all matters involving oil and gas, including advising on transactions, negotiating and drafting contracts and leases, and performing record research and investigating title.
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Our areas of expertise include:
- 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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We also offer international services to our clients here as well.
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A sample of our domestic services:
- Representing a family partnership with over 500 separate mineral, royalty and working interests in Texas, Oklahoma and four other states on leases, title questions, and other legal and regulatory issues
- Advising a family with mineral and royalty interests in thirty-five Texas counties including detailed title review and analysis, extensive title curative work, preparation of ownership reports, and related issues
- Representing a Danish company acquiring working interests in Texas on behalf of individual investors in Denmark including title review and lease analysis
- Represented a group of mineral owners in Burleson County in the lease and later sale of mineral interests
- Advising the executor of an estate on the sale and assignment of working interests in several west Texas counties
- Representing a family in the successful recovery of funds improperly suspended by a large oil company
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