Biography
As an attorney with more than 20 years of prior experience as a principal at privately held oil and gas exploration and production companies, Jules Brenner provides clients with a unique understanding of both the legal and business issues that energy companies face. He focuses his practice on advising energy clients engaged in upstream activities, including exploration and production and the buying and selling of producing properties, minerals, royalties, and other assets; midstream activities, including transportation and storage, and the marketing and trading of crude oil; and service companies to the upstream and midstream sectors.
In addition, Jules often serves as outside general counsel to energy companies, and regularly advises clients in transactional and corporate structuring, corporate mergers and acquisitions, asset acquisitions and divestitures, private placements of debt and equity securities, private equity financings, and corporate governance matters.
Representative Experience
- Documented and helped negotiate the sale by a family office of a partnership holding minerals and non-operated working interests in 23 states across 350+ counties
- Documented and helped negotiate the sale of an upstream service provider to a foreign-based portfolio company of a Texas-based private equity firm
- Documented and helped negotiate the sale of a compressor company based in the Permian Basin to a private equity-backed portfolio company
- Documented and helped negotiate a multi-faceted and complex $250 million transaction leading to the purchase of a large crude oil storage and terminalling facility located in the Caribbean
- Documented and helped negotiate the sale of a perforating gun manufacturing company to a Texas-based private equity fund
- Documented and helped negotiate the sale of a Texas-based service company to a private equity-backed portfolio company
- Negotiated and drafted complex agreements on behalf of an oil and gas producer with a private equity group providing debt funding for overhead and drilling of wells in California
- Documented and helped negotiate the purchase of a 50 percent interest in two oil fields in the Los Angeles Basin
- Documented and helped negotiate a complex sale of partnership interests, including division of oil and gas properties and interests in future income, and contribution of oil and gas leases and assets, to new private equity funded company
- Documented and helped negotiate a complex tri-party joint development and operating agreement in connection with the exploration and development of a 700,000-acre concession in Colombia, South America
- Documented and helped negotiate the sale of over 26,000 net mineral acres in Southeast Texas, including a complex exchange of non-participating royalty interests involving such minerals and over 40,000 other net mineral acres
- Structured, negotiated, and documented a three-party transaction involving the simultaneous acquisition and sale of producing and non-producing properties in East Texas
- Structured, negotiated, and documented the acquisition of over 10,000 net leasehold acres in the Utica Shale in Ohio
- Structured, negotiated and documented a three-party transaction involving the simultaneous acquisition and sale of 5,000 net mineral acres in the Utica Shale in Ohio
- Documented and helped negotiate the purchase of non-operated working interests in hundreds of producing wells in the Bakken Shale in North Dakota and Montana
- Structured, negotiated, and documented the purchase of leasehold interests in 60,000 undeveloped leasehold acres in the Bakken Shale in North Dakota
Education
- J.D. Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law
- B.A. University of Maryland-College Park
Memberships
- Member, ADAM (Acquisitions, Divestitures and Mergers) Energy Forum
- Member, Dallas Wildcat Committee, Dallas Petroleum Club
- Member of Membership Committee and Past Member of Development Committee, Dallas Petroleum Club
Achievements
- The Best Lawyers in America®, Corporate Law (2018-Present)
- Who’s Who in Energy, American Cities Journals, 2012-2014
- Best Lawyers in Dallas – Energy and Natural Resources, D Magazine, 2018, 2023
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