Practice Expertise
- Bankruptcy & Creditors' Rights
- Corporate & Business Law
- Energy Law
- Banking & Finance Law
Areas of Practice
- Banking & Finance Law
- Bankruptcy & Creditors' Rights
- Corporate & Business Law
- Energy Law
- Environmental
- Environmental Law
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Mergers & Acquistions
- Midstream Services
- Natural Resources
- Shale Gas Law View More
Profile
Mr. Herlihy's primary areas of practice are energy, natural resource law and general business acquisitions. He has more than 30 years of experience assisting clients in these areas.
Bar Admissions
Admissions
- West Virginia State Bar
- West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
- United States Supreme Court
- United States District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of West Virginia
- United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Education
- University of Virginia, B. A., with honors, 1977
- University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., 1981
Areas of Practice
- Banking & Finance Law
- Bankruptcy & Creditors' Rights
- Corporate & Business Law
- Energy Law
- Environmental
- Environmental Law
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Mergers & Acquistions
- Midstream Services
- Natural Resources
- Shale Gas Law
Professional Career
Significant Accomplishments
Negotiating and documenting the acquisition and sale of businesses and related assets for natural gas, coal and land companies
Representing lenders and borrowers in loan and other financial transactions related to the natural gas, coal, timber, and land holding businesses
Negotiating and preparing natural gas and coal supply agreements
Negotiating and preparing oil and gas and coal lease agreements
Negotiating and preparing timber sale agreements, timber harvesting contracts, and forestry management agreements
Negotiating and preparing master services, transportation, drilling, loading and other natural resource service agreements
Negotiating and preparing easements, licenses, rights-of-way, wheelage and other natural resource land use agreements
Representing oil and gas and coal companies for contract disputes in either an arbitration or civil litigation forum
Representing land holding companies for contractual disputes in either an arbitration or civil litigation forum
Negotiating and preparing pipeline operating and management agreements
Representing vendors for equipment and services in the natural resource industry
Providing real property/title services to natural resource companies
Representing natural resource industry companies in permitting disputes with regulatory agencies
Defending natural resource industry participants in enforcement actions and penalty assessments with regulatory agencies
Law Clerk to the Honorable John A. Field, Jr., Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 1981 - 1982
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