Natural Resources Law

Guess & Rudd P.C. is nationally recognized as the preeminent natural resources law firm in Alaska. It serves a large clientele of oil and gas companies, mining companies, financial institutions, Native corporations, and other businesses and individuals involved in exploring for, acquiring, developing, producing, and marketing Alaska's natural resources. Guess & Rudd successfully has:

• completed large and complex purchase and sale transactions, exploration agreements, option and leasing transactions, land exchanges, and joint ventures involving lands valuable or potentially valuable for oil, gas, minerals, timber, access routes or rights-of-way, and other resources or purposes
• represented clients in international financing transactions involving Alaska's largest oil and gas fields, mines, pipelines, communications facilities, and other infrastructure developments
• completed numerous title opinions on complex oil and gas, mineral, and other properties
• litigated to protect oil and gas, mineral, and timber rights
• assisted oil and gas, mining, and other resource development projects in obtaining required permits and authorizations
• assisted mining companies and other resource clients in matters requiring the negotiation and regulatory approval of special contracts for electric power and in other utility regulatory matters generally, and
• advised clients in state royalty, severance tax, and mining production tax matters and on local taxation issues.

Members of the firm also regularly publish and present papers in the areas of natural resources law and environmental law.