Maddie is an energy attorney with extensive experience working with the oil and gas industry.
Maddie handles a variety of transactional matters, including agreements for traditional and renewable energy projects, real property acquisitions and divestitures, and various stages of business transactions. She has also counseled clients on a wide array of regulatory issues related to the Railroad Commission of Texas, the state’s governing agency for oil, gas, alternative fuels, pipeline safety, and surface mining and reclamation.
Before moving to litigation and transactional work, Maddie began her career as an oil and gas title attorney. She has researched and written title opinions and prepared discovery requests and responses, briefs, motions, memoranda, and court orders. She has also drafted and negotiated purchase and sale agreements, leases, releases, easements, joint operating agreements, mineral and royalty conveyances and reservations, as well as numerous other transactional documents for energy clients.
Maddie frequently deals in the overlap between energy law and environmental law, including decommissioning and restoration obligations, mining and land reclamation, carbon capture and sequestration, and development of sustainable renewable energy sources. She also represents tax equity investors in renewable energy projects, which allows her to utilize her skills and knowledge of the industry with her experience in mergers and acquisitions, due diligence, and real estate transactions.