Michael G.Szymanski
Associate
Corporate
mszymanski@seyfarth.com
Michael draws on his legal acumen and industry knowledge to guide clients through strategic energy and infrastructure transactions, offering tailored legal solutions that align with commercial objectives to deliver a competitive advantage.
More About Michael
Michael focuses on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and general corporate matters. His practice centers on serving oil and gas exploration and production companies, midstream businesses, family offices, and private equity clients. Michael’s background as both a geophysicist and a business professional in the energy industry allows him to offer clients a unique, practical perspective on complex transactions.
Before joining Seyfarth, Michael held business and commercial roles at a large, privately held E&P company, and worked as a geophysicist for a major seismic reprocessing firm. His technical and commercial experience gives him the ability to navigate the nuanced needs of sophisticated clients in the energy and infrastructure sectors. Michael is known for delivering innovative, practical solutions that help clients achieve their strategic objectives.
Michael served in the United States Marine Corps and was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal and the Afghanistan Campaign Medal. His dedication to serving his country and his commercial acumen give him a unique perspective, enabling him to provide results-driven legal counsel in every cycle.
Before joining Seyfarth, Michael held business and commercial roles at a large, privately held E&P company, and worked as a geophysicist for a major seismic reprocessing firm. His technical and commercial experience gives him the ability to navigate the nuanced needs of sophisticated clients in the energy and infrastructure sectors. Michael is known for delivering innovative, practical solutions that help clients achieve their strategic objectives.
Michael served in the United States Marine Corps and was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal and the Afghanistan Campaign Medal. His dedication to serving his country and his commercial acumen give him a unique perspective, enabling him to provide results-driven legal counsel in every cycle.
- JD, University of Houston Law Center
Houston Journal of Health Law and Policy, Head Senior Articles Editor
- Texas
- US District Court, Eastern District of Texas
- US District Court, Southern District of Texas
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- Represented a private equity-backed portfolio company in the formation of a joint venture focused on the development of a natural gas microgrid.
- Represented a private equity-backed portfolio company as outside general counsel in connection with general corporate governance and contractual matters related to the operation and development of its upstream oil and gas assets.
- Represented a private equity-backed portfolio company in the formation of a joint venture involving oil and gas assets in the Gulf of Mexico.
- Represented a renewable energy developer in negotiating transportation agreements for federally regulated refined products.
- Represented a family office in structuring a joint venture to acquire, develop, and exploit oil and gas assets.
- Represented a multi-national foreign company in the acquisition of mineral assets located in the Barnett Basin.
- Represented a private equity-backed portfolio company as outside general counsel in post-closing corporate restructuring matters related to a carbon capture joint venture.
- Represented a nonoperated working interest owner in its divestiture of its assets in the Williston Basin.
- Represented a privately held oil and gas company in its acquisition of producing assets in the Williston Basin.
- Represented a privately held oil and gas company as outside general counsel on corporate governance and material commercial agreements.
- Represented a private equity firm in its acquisition of conventional East Texas assets from a super major.
- Represented a privately held midstream company as outside general counsel on corporate governance and material commercial agreements.
- Represented a privately held oil and gas company in its private placement to secure investor capital in connection with the acquisition and development of upstream and midstream oil and gas assets located on federal lands in Wyoming.
- Represented a family office in the divestiture of its nonoperated working interest located in the Williston Basin.
- Represented the produced water division of a publicly traded master limited partnership in connection with material commercial agreements and joint ventures.
- Represented a public company with respect to the negotiation of a joint venture to refine lithium.
- Represented a privately held Calgary-based midstream company in the negotiation of material commercial agreements related to the transportation, refining, and sale of hydrocarbons.
- Represented a large private equity firm in a multi-million dollar midstream acquisition.
- Represented a consortium of family offices in the sale of nonoperated working interests, royalty, and mineral assets located in the Permian Basin.
- Represented institutional owner in the divesture of mineral and royalty assets located across Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico.
- Represented privately held oil and gas company in the negotiation of a farmout covering undeveloped hydrocarbon assets located in the offshore waters of West Africa.
- Represented South Texas family office as outside general counsel on corporate governance and material commercial agreements.
- Represented a privately held oil and gas company in a DrillCo transaction to jointly develop acreage in the Haynesville Shale.
Houston Bar Association, Energy Law Section
Houston Bar Association, Mergers & Acquisitions Section
Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation, Host Committee
Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, Calf Scramble Committee
Michael draws on his legal acumen and industry knowledge to guide clients through strategic energy and infrastructure transactions, offering tailored legal solutions that align with commercial objectives to deliver a competitive advantage.
More About Michael
Michael focuses on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and general corporate matters. His practice centers on serving oil and gas exploration and production companies, midstream businesses, family offices, and private equity clients. Michael’s background as both a geophysicist and a business professional in the energy industry allows him to offer clients a unique, practical perspective on complex transactions.
Before joining Seyfarth, Michael held business and commercial roles at a large, privately held E&P company, and worked as a geophysicist for a major seismic reprocessing firm. His technical and commercial experience gives him the ability to navigate the nuanced needs of sophisticated clients in the energy and infrastructure sectors. Michael is known for delivering innovative, practical solutions that help clients achieve their strategic objectives.
Michael served in the United States Marine Corps and was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal and the Afghanistan Campaign Medal. His dedication to serving his country and his commercial acumen give him a unique perspective, enabling him to provide results-driven legal counsel in every cycle.
Before joining Seyfarth, Michael held business and commercial roles at a large, privately held E&P company, and worked as a geophysicist for a major seismic reprocessing firm. His technical and commercial experience gives him the ability to navigate the nuanced needs of sophisticated clients in the energy and infrastructure sectors. Michael is known for delivering innovative, practical solutions that help clients achieve their strategic objectives.
Michael served in the United States Marine Corps and was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal and the Afghanistan Campaign Medal. His dedication to serving his country and his commercial acumen give him a unique perspective, enabling him to provide results-driven legal counsel in every cycle.
- JD, University of Houston Law Center
Houston Journal of Health Law and Policy, Head Senior Articles Editor
- Texas
- US District Court, Eastern District of Texas
- US District Court, Southern District of Texas
Related Services
Related Key Industries
- Represented a private equity-backed portfolio company in the formation of a joint venture focused on the development of a natural gas microgrid.
- Represented a private equity-backed portfolio company as outside general counsel in connection with general corporate governance and contractual matters related to the operation and development of its upstream oil and gas assets.
- Represented a private equity-backed portfolio company in the formation of a joint venture involving oil and gas assets in the Gulf of Mexico.
- Represented a renewable energy developer in negotiating transportation agreements for federally regulated refined products.
- Represented a family office in structuring a joint venture to acquire, develop, and exploit oil and gas assets.
- Represented a multi-national foreign company in the acquisition of mineral assets located in the Barnett Basin.
- Represented a private equity-backed portfolio company as outside general counsel in post-closing corporate restructuring matters related to a carbon capture joint venture.
- Represented a nonoperated working interest owner in its divestiture of its assets in the Williston Basin.
- Represented a privately held oil and gas company in its acquisition of producing assets in the Williston Basin.
- Represented a privately held oil and gas company as outside general counsel on corporate governance and material commercial agreements.
- Represented a private equity firm in its acquisition of conventional East Texas assets from a super major.
- Represented a privately held midstream company as outside general counsel on corporate governance and material commercial agreements.
- Represented a privately held oil and gas company in its private placement to secure investor capital in connection with the acquisition and development of upstream and midstream oil and gas assets located on federal lands in Wyoming.
- Represented a family office in the divestiture of its nonoperated working interest located in the Williston Basin.
- Represented the produced water division of a publicly traded master limited partnership in connection with material commercial agreements and joint ventures.
- Represented a public company with respect to the negotiation of a joint venture to refine lithium.
- Represented a privately held Calgary-based midstream company in the negotiation of material commercial agreements related to the transportation, refining, and sale of hydrocarbons.
- Represented a large private equity firm in a multi-million dollar midstream acquisition.
- Represented a consortium of family offices in the sale of nonoperated working interests, royalty, and mineral assets located in the Permian Basin.
- Represented institutional owner in the divesture of mineral and royalty assets located across Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico.
- Represented privately held oil and gas company in the negotiation of a farmout covering undeveloped hydrocarbon assets located in the offshore waters of West Africa.
- Represented South Texas family office as outside general counsel on corporate governance and material commercial agreements.
- Represented a privately held oil and gas company in a DrillCo transaction to jointly develop acreage in the Haynesville Shale.
Houston Bar Association, Energy Law Section
Houston Bar Association, Mergers & Acquisitions Section
Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation, Host Committee
Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, Calf Scramble Committee