Howard Boigon

Howard Boigon's practice focuses on transactional, regulatory and legislative matters in energy and natural resources law and policy and on business counseling for natural resources companies. Howard's extensive experience includes mergers, acquisitions, and dispositions of natural resource companies and properties; negotiating and drafting of purchase and sale agreements; joint venture, exploration, and operating agreements, master service agreements, drilling and platform agreements, production-sharing agreements, production transportation and marketing agreements, and other industry agreements covering projects onshore and offshore, domestic and international; lobbying and policy advocacy at all levels of government; regulatory matters; general business counseling; project finance; and administrative proceedings and litigation. Prior to joining our legal practice, Howard served as Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary at Westport Resources Corporation, a Denver-based exploration and production (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. 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, and serves on the steering committee for COGA’s annual Energy Epicenter Conference. He has served as a trustee of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation and on the advisory board of the Institute for Energy Law; has 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. He co-chaired the natural resources committee of the transition team for Governor-elect Ritter. He was a principal author of the 1989 revision to the AAPL Form 610 onshore joint 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.