Matthew Hutnick Email & Phone Number

Wheeling, West Virginia, United States

• Represent energy and natural resource companies with a focus on oil and gas, coal, coalbed methane, and carbon capture and sequestration contracts, transactions, and real estate matters.• Assist clients with acquisition and divestiture of surface, oil and gas, coal, coalbed methane, and other subsurface assets, drafting and negotiation of lease, license, right of way and easement agreements, and settlement of real property disputes.• Represent energy companies in connection with the formation, operation, and dissolution of joint ventures, including drafting and negotiating joint operating agreements, development agreements, cooperation agreements, purchase and sale agreements, and gas-gathering agreements. • Assist clients with environmental asset matters, including development and management of projects producing carbon credits, offsets, renewable energy credits (RECs), and emission reduction credits (ERCs), and the sale of such environmental attributes to third parties.• Represent energy companies in connection with equipment finance leases, including negotiating and drafting master lease agreements, progress payment agreements, and purchasing agency and indemnity agreements.

Canonsburg, Pennsylvania

• Provided general corporate advice and legal support to upstream oil and gas exploration and production operations, midstream operations, land, business development, information technology, green technology, environmental, regulatory affairs, and supply chain departments.• Legal lead on all real property matters, including acquisition and divestiture of surface, oil and gas assets, drafting and negotiation of lease, license, right of way and easement agreements, and settlement of real property disputes. • Responsible for acquisition and divestiture of upstream and midstream energy assets, joint ventures, and development operations, including drafting and negotiating joint operating agreements, development agreements, cooperation and safety agreements, purchase and sale agreements, and gas gathering agreements.• Legal lead on all green technology and environmental asset matters, including development and management of intellectual property, carbon offsets, renewable energy credits (RECs), emission reduction credits (ERCs), and low carbon fuel credits (LCFS).• Day-to-day interaction with and project management of all legal aspects of upstream and midstream operations, including cross-functional work with land, operations, engineering, gas marketing, supply chain, geology, finance, insurance, tax, information technology, green technology, environmental, and regulatory affairs. • Managed professional staff and outside counsel, including outside counsel use and spend.• Provided legal support to corporate-level mergers and acquisitions transactions, including the spin-off of the coal business and drop-down transactions to a midstream master limited partnership.• Drafted and negotiated commercial agreements, including master services agreements, software license agreements, and non-disclosure agreements.

Wheeling, West Virginia Area

• Represented energy and natural resource companies in connection with asset acquisition transactions, including the drafting of conveyance documents; participated in related due diligence investigations, including review of title, environmental issues, property rights, and litigation matters.• Represented strategic (public and private) and financial buyers in connection with mineral acquisitions, including the development of acquisition guidelines, preparation of transactional documents, and management of due diligence.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Represented oil and gas exploration and production companies in preparation of leasing and drilling title opinions regarding surface, oil, gas, and coal properties in the Appalachian Basin.• Provided analysis of complex title issues and guidance on applicable law in conjunction with due diligence for acquisition and divestiture of oil and gas assets, including preparation of conveyance and curative documents.

Wheeling, West Virginia Area

• Managed title and asset development projects and performed title examinations for upstream oil and gas exploration and production companies in the Appalachian Basin.

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Assisted Presiding Judge of Civil Division with trials, drafted judicial opinions and memoranda, and mediated and settled cases.

Juris Doctor

B.A.