Mac Marshall
Partner
Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP
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Biography
Mac Marshall focuses on a wide range of energy-related projects located onshore, offshore, upstream, midstream and internationally. His extensive portfolio of work with energy industry clients includes acquisitions and divestitures of producing and non-producing oil and gas properties; acquisitions, divestitures, construction and financing of pipelines, gathering systems and storage facilities for natural gas, crude oil, condensate and natural gas liquids; oil and gas joint ventures and exploration and development programs; exploration and development project agreements including joint operating agreements, COPAS accounting procedures; exploration and development agreements and joint operating agreements; natural gas purchase, sales and marketing agreements and NAESB agreements; natural gas gathering, processing and treating agreements, oil and gas transportation agreements and related midstream agreements; gas storage agreements; bankruptcy asset sales and restructurings; production handling agreements; master service agreements and drilling contracts; hedging agreements; and seismic data licenses and acquisition agreements.
Mac also represents lenders and borrowers in a wide variety of conventional and mezzanine energy financings and related secured transactions, including reserve-based lending and revolving and term credit facilities.
Mac is Board Certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in Oil, Gas and Mineral Law.
Professional experience
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- BA, magna cum laude, Vanderbilt University, 2001
- Louisiana State Bar
- Texas State Bar
- A Japanese conglomerate in a $1.4 billion venture with a major US oil and gas company to jointly explore for and develop natural gas in the Marcellus Shale
- A large US exploration company in an approximate $3.2 billion Marcellus Shale joint venture (including acquiring a related gathering company and structuring gathering agreements)
- A major Eagle Ford Shale exploration company in negotiating gathering, processing, transportation, treating, and related agreements for its Eagle Ford shale joint venture acreage originally acquired for $1.325 billion
- A major Marcellus Shale exploration company in restructuring gas gathering and processing agreements for acreage originally acquired in an $11 billion merger
- Texas-based exploration and production companies in disposing of their interests in Colombian concession agreements
- A private equity company in a $400 million venture with a major US oil and gas company to jointly explore for and develop natural gas in the Eagle Ford Shale Formation
- Numerous oil and gas exploration companies in establishing and funding joint ventures and partnerships for oil and gas exploration and development projects
- Numerous oil and gas producing companies in acquiring and divesting onshore and offshore producing oil and gas properties
- A refining company in structuring a $500 million crude feedstock supply agreement for a refinery in Hawaii
- An agent bank in gas storage project financing
- Commercial banks in producer financings in excess of $500 million secured by onshore and offshore producing oil and gas properties
- The agent bank in a $900 million syndicated credit facility for a pipeline company
- The agent bank in a $375 million syndicated credit facility for a refining company
- Legal 500 US, Recommended lawyer: Energy transactions: oil and gas, The Legal 500, 2024
- Lawdragon 500 Leading Energy Lawyers, Lawdragon, 2023
- State Bar of Texas
- Houston Bar Association
- Houston Young Lawyers Association
- Vanderbilt Alumni Association
- Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo
- Boy Scouts of America, Eagle Scout