Angela Franklin

OVERVIEW

Angela Franklin has nearly 30 years’ experience representing oil, gas, mining, and water clients in virtually all types of acquisition, divestiture, exploration, production, and financing transactions.

With experience in matters involving both public and private lands, clients engage Angela to find practical solutions to their business needs. She is from a multi-generational oil and gas family that gives her a deep appreciation for the natural resources industries she serves.

Angela has extensive experience with title examination of private, Federal, State, and Indian lands throughout the Rocky Mountain region and rendering drilling, division order, acquisition, and financing opinions. In addition, she advises clients in complex acquisition and divestiture transactions, including performing all aspects of curative work and preparing transaction agreements.

EXPERIENCE

Experience

Counsels clients on and prepares:

Due diligence reviews
Easement Agreements
Exploration Agreements
Farmout Agreements
Joint Operating Agreements
Participation Agreements
Pooling Agreements
Purchase and Sale Agreements
Title Opinions – drilling, division order, acquisition, and financing
Unit and Unit Operating Agreements

Advises clients on:

Conveyancing
Leasing
Mid-stream marketing agreements
Pooling – voluntary and force/compulsory
Spacing and location rules
Title curative
Units – federal/state exploratory and secondary recovery
Water rights
Well permitting

Represents clients before:

Bureau of Land Management
Interior Board of Land Appeals
Utah Board of Oil, Gas, and Mining
Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration
Wyoming Office of State Lands & Investments

CLIENT RESULTS

Client Results

$2.5 billion pipeline financing due diligence in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Iowa
$2.5 billion acquisition of oil and gas properties in Rocky Mountain states
$400 million exchange of producing oil and gas properties in Utah and Wyoming
$260 million divestiture of producing oil and gas properties in Utah and Wyoming
$100 million acquisition of producing oil and gas properties in Wyoming
$10 million acquisition of royalty and mineral interests throughout the Rocky Mountain states
Title experience in Bakken, Niobrara, and Permian Basin shale plays

PRACTICES

Practices

Oil and Gas

Mining

Water Law

Environmental and Natural Resources

NEWS AND INSIGHTS

News

Angela Franklin and Adrienne Bell Discuss the Natural Resources and Environment Outlook in Utah, 11/22/2019

Mountain States Super Lawyers 2019 Recognizes 53 Holland & Hart Attorneys, 05/31/2019

Best Lawyers^® Names 18 Lawyers of the Year and 175 Best Lawyers from Holland & Hart, 08/15/2018

Mountain States Super Lawyers 2018 Recognizes 61 Holland & Hart Attorneys, 06/11/2018

Fifty-Seven Holland & Hart Attorneys Named Among 2018 Utah Legal Elite, 03/15/2018

Best Lawyers® Names 21 Partners 2018 "Lawyer of the Year" and 183 Attorneys to Best Lawyers in America© List, 08/15/2017

Mountain States Super Lawyers Includes 68 Holland & Hart Attorneys, 06/12/2017

Utah's Legal Elite 2017 Names 59 Holland & Hart Attorneys, 03/14/2017

28 Holland & Hart Attorneys Named to Utah's Legal Elite 2016, 5/19/2016

Publications

"BLM Directives Rein In the Federal APD Environmental Review Process," Holland & Hart News Update, 06/19/2018

"What Are the Types of Interests in Federal Oil and Gas Leases and How Are They Assigned?," The Oil & Gas Report, February 2018

"What is a Federal Right-of-Way Lease for Oil and Gas?," The Oil & Gas Report, April 2017

"Saving the Best for Last – What is All That Stuff at the End of My Lease?," Holland & Hart Oil & Gas Report, 2016

"Communitization Agreements in the 21st Century," Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Journal, Vol. 52, No. 1, Co-Author, 2015

"A Roadmap for Commencement of Drilling Operations: Are We There Yet?," Holland & Hart News Update, 8/14/2015

Speaking Engagements

"Dotting Your I's and Crossing Your T's : Ensuring Proper Payment and Execution," Special Institute on Drafting and Negotiating the Modern Oil & Gas Lease, Co-Presenter, May 2018

"Comparative Law Review Panel: Texas, Oklahoma and the Rockies," 63rd Annual Meeting, American Association of Professional Landmen, Co-Presenter, 2017

"Balancing Risk in Title Opinions," Advanced Mineral Title Examination – Oil, Gas, and Mining Special Institute, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, 2014

"Comparative Oil and Gas Review of West Coast Law," Co-Presenter, 58th Annual Meeting, American Association of Professional Landmen, 2012

"Curative Documents and Tools: You have a defect now what do you do?," Presenter, Nuts and Bolts of Mineral Title Examination Special Institute, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, 2012

"Communitization Agreements in the 21st Century," Presenter, Federal Onshore Oil and Gas Pooling and Unitization Special Institute, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, 2006

EDUCATION AND ADMISSIONS

Education

University of Wyoming
J.D., 1990

University of Wyoming
B.S., 1986

Bar Admissions

Utah

Wyoming

RECOGNITION

Recognition

Martindale-Hubbell®, AV Preeminent® Rating
Mountain States Super Lawyers®, Energy & Resources, 2008-2018
Utah Business Magazine, Utah Legal Elite, Energy & Natural Resources, 2006, 2010-2012, 2015-2018

PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC AFFILIATIONS

Professional and Civic Affiliations

American Association of Professional Landmen, Member, 1990-present
Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, Member, 1990-present; Trustee-at-Large, 2005-2008, 2014-2016; Long Range Planning Committee, 1998-present; Special Projects Committee, 2015-present
Utah Association of Professional Landmen, Member, 1990-present; President, 1995-1996, 2004-2005; Oil and Gas Seminars, Chair, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2005
Utah State Bar, Natural Resources and Environmental Law Section, Member, 1990-present; Oil and Gas Section, Chair, 1994-1995
Expanding Your Horizons, Volunteer Presenter, 2008-present
Holland & Hart Foundation, Board of Trustees, 2013-present; Volunteer, 2011-present
Immune Deficiency Foundation, Volunteer, 2014-present