Faegre Baker Daniels lawyers counsel clients on natural resources matters—including legal and business issues related to energy, oil and gas, mining, electricity, renewable energy and public lands. We advise companies of all sizes in the United States and Europe, including public utilities, as well as institutional lenders, underwriters, and private investors.

Energy, Oil and Gas

We advise clients regarding exploration, development, operating, gathering, farm out, unit and drilling agreements, and litigation; mineral royalties; oil and gas leasing, permitting, and development on U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, state, Indian, and fee lands; defense of National Environmental Policy Act and state environmental review documents and government approvals against third-party challenges; and energy development on tribal lands.

Mining

We advise companies involved in mineral extraction and processing, prospecting, mine development, tunneling, excavation, and postmining redevelopment.

Land Use and Public Lands

We counsel companies regarding U.S. federal public lands law and litigation; acquiring, developing, and selling interests in minerals and energy resources; resort permitting, development, and litigation on federal public lands; siting and environmental permitting, including corridor siting; and eminent domain proceedings.

Ski Area and Resort Development

We have experience with the acquisition, development, financing, and operation of ski areas on Forest Service lands under special use permits. Our lawyers provide counsel and handle disputes involving Forest Service special use permit terms and regulations, Forest Service ski area development decisions, land exchanges, ski area terrain expansions and development, wildlife regulation, snowmaking, environmental review under the National Environmental Policy Act, and federal land use planning and ski area development.

We also handle natural resources related due diligence, administrative proceedings and appeals, and lobbying.