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Crowe Dunlevy Tops Best Law Firms® State Tier 1 Rankings for 16th Consecutive Year
Nov 10, 2025|
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Energy companies operate where capital, regulation and conflicts meet. Who can keep every legal front moving in the same direction?
Crowe Dunlevy serves the energy industry with a multidisciplinary team built for the business, regulatory and litigation demands that shape every project and asset. We represent major oil and gas companies, mid-sized exploration and production companies, midstream businesses, refiners, retailers, utilities, renewable energy developers, investors, municipalities and other companies operating across Oklahoma and Texas. Our lawyers advise clients from acquisition, financing and development through permitting, operations, enforcement and trial. By bringing corporate, environmental, real estate, tax, finance, labor and employment, administrative and litigation capabilities together, we help clients make decisions with the entire energy enterprise in view.
We put the full firm behind the energy business
An energy matter may begin with a purchase agreement or permit, but the issues facing this industry extend well beyond one single concern. We assemble the lawyers the business requires and keep them working toward the same commercial objective. That coordinated approach gives clients practical counsel across the issues that affect assets, operations, capital and long-term growth, including:
- Corporate transactions, acquisitions, divestitures and entity matters
- Energy and environmental diligence, permitting, compliance and enforcement
- Real estate, title, mineral ownership, leasehold and site-control issues
- Financing, federal and state income tax and gross production tax matters
- Labor and employment counsel for energy-sector workforces
- Administrative proceedings, arbitration and courtroom litigation
- Environmental insurance claims and risk allocation
Moving energy assets from opportunity to operation
Transactions in the energy industry turn on what is beneath the agreement: ownership, title, operating rights, environmental conditions, contracts, permits and enforcement history. We help buyers, sellers, developers and investors evaluate those issues, allocate risk and structure deals around how the asset will actually be developed and operated.
For conventional energy clients, our work includes the sale and acquisition of oil and gas properties and companies, asset-level diligence, title and leasehold review, data-room analysis and financing. We prepare and negotiate purchase and sale agreements, environmental provisions and indemnities as well as joint operating agreements, drilling contracts, master services agreements, area of mutual interest agreements and gas purchase, processing and transportation agreements. We also counsel clients from the earliest stages of exploration through well permitting, spacing, pooling, multiunit wells and production.
Our industry reach extends to renewable and alternative energy, where we advise on wind siting and development, solar permitting, biofuels and biomass, hydroelectric acquisitions and development and energy-efficiency initiatives.
We turn regulatory demands into operating decisions
Energy companies answer to overlapping federal, state, local and tribal requirements, and the consequences of a missed obligation can reach far beyond a single permit. We help clients secure, transfer and defend air, water and other environmental permits, evaluate compliance, respond to alleged violations and address inspections, investigations and enforcement actions. Our connections to the agencies and familiarity with the people and processes behind them give clients a practical advantage. We know how to frame the issue, which questions to ask and how to pursue an outcome that protects both compliance and operations.
Our lawyers regularly handle matters involving the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality, the Oklahoma Water Resources Board, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, the Railroad Commission of Texas and other agencies with authority over energy operations. This includes Clean Water Act compliance, water-use permitting, underground storage tanks, oilfield pollution, permit transfers and environmental review in real estate and business transactions. We also handle emerging risks such as PFAS. As the regulation of forever chemicals evolves and litigation grows, we help businesses and municipalities assess exposure, prepare for agency action and address potential claims under CERCLA, the Safe Drinking Water Act, TSCA, the Clean Water Act and RCRA.
Ready for conflicts wherever they arise
Energy industry disputes require command of the contracts, assets, technical record and regulatory structure that produced the conflict. We represent producers, midstream companies, refiners, retailers, operators, working interest owners, royalty owners and landowners in state and federal court, arbitration and proceedings before energy and environmental agencies. Our experience includes disputes involving onshore and offshore production, gathering, processing and transportation as well as lease claims, industry contracts, joint interest and gas plant accounting, class actions, citizen suits, pollution claims and governmental requests for information.