Grant Pryor's practice focuses on representing clients in the energy industry with particular experience in matters related to the acquisition, collateralization, development, and disposition of energy assets. 

Prior to joining Winstead, Grant served as Senior Counsel to a Dallas based private equity investment management firm.  As in-house counsel, Grant had primary responsibility for legal oversight of the firm’s acquisition, development and disposition of energy assets. In that role, Grant documented, managed, and negotiated all facets of hundreds of various energy transactions, including title due diligence, acquisition, development, leasing, and disposition. Additionally, as in-house counsel, Grant advised the firm in oil and gas title litigation matters.  The multifaceted experience provided Grant unique insight into the practice of law from the perspective of the practical realities of a running business.

Prior to going in-house, Grant spent 10 years advising publicly traded companies in the acquisition and development of property in Oklahoma and Texas, and drafting related title opinions, curative instruments and transactional documents.

Representative Experience

• Representing national banking clients in collateralization of oil and gas mineral, pipeline, royalty, water facility, and working interest collateral, including mortgages, security agreements, and ancillary instruments across all U.S. basins, including Alaska 
• Advising clients regarding energy title due diligence consisting of reserve reports, title opinions and transactional documents across all U.S. basins, including Alaska 
• Representing private equity investment fund clients in oil and gas acquisitions and dispositions, and advising, drafting and negotiating regarding assignments, conveyances, employment contracts, master services agreements, oil and gas leases, probates, purchase and sale agreements, title curative, and trust estate distributions 
• Advising real estate development clients on strategic risk assessment of adjacent oil and gas development, and documenting surface use accommodation agreements and mineral surface waivers,  including successfully negotiating 1000 net mineral acre surface waiver from energy supermajor ancillary to membership interest purchase agreement for data center development
• Representing real estate development clients in the drafting and negotiating of purchase agreements, conveyances and ancillary documents in connection with dispositions of mineral assets, including a sale of mineral interests to a private equity fund from a client with over $30 billion in assets under management 
• Advising clients on strategic risk assessment of collateral including concerning farm-out agreements, gas gathering agreements, joint operating agreements, mineral royalty funds, net profits interests, non-participating overriding royalty interests, and volumetric production payments 
• On behalf of private equity investment fund, documented and managed “ahead of the drill-bit” mineral acquisition rights agreement between investment funds and publicly traded energy company, including drafting attendant amendments, assignments and deeds 
• On behalf of several private equity investment funds, managed transactions in mineral and leasehold acquisitions, development and dispositions nationwide, including adverse to publicly traded companies; and successfully negotiated and drafted related access agreements, acreage trade agreements, assignments, deeds, easements, exploration and development agreements, farmout agreements, joint operating agreements, leases, option agreements, purchase and sale agreements, resolutions, and surface use and unit agreements
• Advised private equity investment fund clients regarding allocation wells, fixed versus floating non-participating royalties, joint operating agreements, lease maintenance, royalty payments, title curative, state and federal oil and gas regulations specific to exploration and production, and survey issues to ensure compliance with federal, state and local laws and regulations