Howard L. Boigon
Boigon Law LTD
Howard Boigon, Esq., focuses his practice on transactional, regulatory, and policy matters in energy and natural resources law, primarily for the upstream oil and gas industry. Howard's extensive experience includes mergers, acquisitions, and dispositions of natural resource companies and properties; negotiating and drafting of joint venture, exploration, and operating agreements covering projects onshore and offshore, domestic and international; lobbying and policy advocacy at all levels of government; regulatory; general business counseling; debt and equity financing; and administrative proceedings and litigation. Prior to his current legal practice, Howard served as Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary at Westport Resources Corporation, a Denver-based E&P company publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Before his position at Westport, he served as Director, Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary at Basin Exploration, Inc., another public E&P company. Before that, he was a partner in the natural resources department of a large Denver-based law firm where he focused on oil and gas law. Prior to entering private practice, Howard served as a law clerk to The Honorable Wade H. McCree, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. While in law school, he was an editor of the Michigan Law Review. Howard has served as President and is a current board member of the Colorado Oil and Gas Association (COGA), and serves on the steering committee for COGA's annual Energy Epicenter Conference. He served as a trustee of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation and on the advisory board of the Institute for Energy Law; chaired the Mineral Law Section of the Colorado Bar Association; and served as Natural Resources Practitioner in Residence at the University of Denver School of Law. Howard has extensive recent experience in offshore natural gas development in Israel. Locally, he has a broad range of experience in advising the exploration and production industry on the range of their business solutions, including transactions, financing, regulatory, and dispute resolution. He has played a key role in the development of integral public policy affecting the industry. For example, Howard helped to lead the oil and gas industry's participation in the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission's (COGCC) recent extensive overhaul of industry regulation. In 2007, he was principal drafter and the oil and gas industry's chief legislative advocate of Colorado's innovative legislation, Senate Bill 237, on reconciling competing land development and oil and gas operations in the greater Wattenberg area of northeast Colorado. He was a principal author of the 1989 revision to the standard oil and gas industry onshore operating agreement and has lectured and written widely on joint operations in the extractive industries, land use issues, regulatory policy, and other aspects of oil and gas law and practice.
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