Allison MacKinnon
Shareholder
1401 Lawrence St., Suite 1800
Denver, CO 80202
303-830-2500 Main
720-305-5808 Direct
Licensed in Colorado, New York, Texas, Wyoming
Overview
Allison is a commercially focused legal advisor that represents publicly traded and privately held companies in a wide range of mining, oil & gas, and renewable energy projects and transactions.
She has represented clients in a variety of domestic and international mining and oil & gas projects and transactions, including drafting and negotiating purchase and sale agreements and exchange agreements for equity and asset transactions and joint venture, development, option and farm-in / farmout agreements for earn-in and joint venture transactions. Allison also represents mining, upstream E&P, midstream and renewable energy companies in the negotiation and drafting of a wide array of real property instruments, including leases (mining, oil & gas, solar and wind), royalty instruments, easements, surface use agreements, and water, crude oil and gas gathering, processing and disposal agreements.
Allison also serves as outside general counsel for emerging energy companies, including private equity-backed portfolio companies, advising executive management, finance, and land teams on a variety of corporate, land, legal, and employment matters, and negotiating and drafting a variety of commercial agreements pertaining to their day-to-day operations. She also has experience advising her clients on corporate formation, ownership structure, and governance and often serves as a key advisor on corporate risk assessment and management.
She has extensive experience coordinating and conducting due diligence for large-scale domestic and international mining and oil & gas projects and transactions (including corporate, contract, land, and legal diligence) and has prepared all forms of mineral title opinions, including drilling, division order and acquisition opinions covering fee, state and federal lands.