Brandon Durrett is an attorney in the San Antonio office of Jackson Walker LLP in its Energy Practice Group. He is a Board Certified oil and gas attorney and an alumnus of Texas Tech School of Law and Brigham Young University. He is a former president of the San Antonio Association of Professional Landmen and has organized its annual education seminar since 2014. Brandon originally hails from Midland and now lives in Alamo Heights with his wife and three children. 

Practicing in Texas and New Mexico, Brandon counsels petroleum industry clients in mergers and acquisitions, commercial industry agreements, and complex disputes over oil and gas assets. 

Brandon has broad experience negotiating purchase and sale agreements for upstream and midstream assets, plus related marketing, financing, confidentiality, and transition services agreements. He also works closely with his corporate colleagues on energy-related mergers, stock and membership interest purchases, joint ventures, capital investments, and private equity deals. 

Brandon regularly negotiates complex petroleum industry agreements, such as “drillco” and participation agreements, JOAs, MSAs, drilling and contract operator agreements, production marketing/gathering/transportation agreements, commercial SWD service agreements, water sale and supply agreements, oil and gas leases, pooling and production sharing agreements, and surface use agreements.

Brandon often teams with his litigation colleagues in oil and gas disputes involving lease termination claims, subsurface trespass, title disputes, breaches of representations and warranties, indemnification claims, operatorship conflicts, payout and non-consent issues, deed and contract construction, royalty payment disputes, and land use conflicts. Brandon also advises clients in regulatory compliance matters before the Railroad Commission of Texas and New Mexico Oil Conservation Division regarding drilling permits, spacing and density issues, enforcement actions, P&A liability, and forced pooling.