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Cheryl Phillips

Cheryl Phillips

Work Department

Oil & Gas

Position

Special Counsel

Career

Cheryl’s practice focuses on oil and gas transactions, including mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. She has experience drafting and negotiating purchase and sale agreements, farmout agreements, participation agreements, exploration agreements, joint development agreements, joint operating agreements, master services agreements, drilling contracts, gas gathering agreements, processing agreements, oil and gas leases, surface use agreements, and conveyancing instruments. Cheryl’s previous experience includes serving for over six years as general counsel of a $5B private equity oil and gas production company with domestic onshore operations in the Rockies, Permian, Mid-Continent, East Texas and Gulf Coast regions.

Memberships

Admitted to the Texas State Bar American Bar Association Houston Bar Association, Oil, Gas and Mineral Law Section

Education

JD, University of Houston Law Center, magna cum laude, Houston Law Review, Research Editor, 1988-1989, Order of the Coif, Order of the Barons, 1989 BA, Rice University, 1985