Patrick J. Schenkel

Biography

Patrick Schenkel represents both publicly traded and privately held clients in a variety of upstream and midstream energy matters. His primary areas of practice include title examination and due diligence analysis for the acquisition and divestitures of producing and non-producing assets. He regularly assists clients with drafting, negotiating, and interpreting agreements required for modern oil and gas development, including purchase and sale agreements; joint operating agreements; development agreements; farmout agreements; surface agreements; oil and gas leases; mineral and royalty conveyances; and pooling and unitization agreements. He also advises clients on mineral and leasehold ownership disputes; relinquishment act matters; title curative procedures; pooling; PSA and allocation wells; and regulatory issues.

He has drafted and reviewed hundreds of title opinions, including acquisition, drilling, division order, and supplemental title opinions, covering hundreds of thousands of acres on fee, state, and federal lands, and manages a team of attorneys working in conjunction with landmen, division order analysts, and in-house counsel to conduct extensive title examination and transactional due diligence.