Stuart C. Hollimon

Some of Stuart’s representative litigation and transactions include the following matters:

• In 2011, obtained $3.8 million jury verdict for plaintiff operator in suit to recover cost of plugging wells in the Gulf of Mexico
• In 2010, successfully represented non-operator in joint interest audit claim relating to West Africa producing field and related damage claim against the operator for mismanagement of certain capital projects relating to the field
• In 2010, obtained dismissal of Federal Court RICO action accusing operator of conspiracy to “steal” certain mineral interests purportedly owned by various third parties
• In 2010, obtained favorable Judgment in a trespass-to-try-title action to pooled gas unit upholding validity of client's oil and gas lease
• In 2010, obtained order denying class certification of royalty owner suit alleging failure to reasonably develop gas units
• In 2009, obtained injunction enjoining landowner from denying surface access to operator client
• In 2008, obtained favorable defense judgment for large independent operator in damage suit brought by non-operator for loss of oil and gas lease due to late payment of royalty
• In 2007, obtained "take nothing" defense decision for major producer in arbitration relating to client's alleged failure to reassign certain federal leases situated in the Deepwater Region of the Gulf of Mexico
• In 2007, represented Sellers in divestment of $48 million of producing properties in the Overton Field in Texas

• In 2006, defeated attempt to enjoin major oil company client from drilling Barnett Shale Prospect on Comanche Peak Ranch
• In 2006, represented Houston-based producer in $140 million acquisition of producing properties situated in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi
• In 2005, defended independent producer in South Texas litigation for royalty on pooled unit production
• In 2005, obtained unanimous arbitration award for a Houston-based producer in a multimillion dollar voting-rights dispute under an operating agreement covering a producing field located offshore West Africa
• In 2005, represented producers in four separate acquisitions of producing properties having total value of $700 million
• In 2004, defended a large independent producer in West Texas litigation alleging that the client was responsible for the royalty burdening the client’s non-consenting working interest in a producing well
• In 2004, obtained favorable arbitration award for Houston-based producer in a $3.2 million dispute concerning whether a title defect created by the termination of a Term Assignment had been cured by the seller’s tender of a farmout agreement covering the acreage
• Defended independent producer in South Texas litigation against claims of trespass, field-wide drainage, failure to reasonably develop the lease and failure to pay market value gas royalty
• Obtained favorable decision in the landmark oil and gas case of Sun Exploration and Production Company v. Jackson establishing that there is no implied obligation to explore an oil and gas lease in Texas