Mark Burghardt

Practice Areas

Energy & Natural Resources; Commercial Litigation; Environmental; Mergers & Acquisitions; Mining; Oil & Gas; Real Estate & Land Use; Sustainability

Career

Mark is a partner and the chair of the Oil and Gas Industry Group.

Mark focuses on natural resource and renewable energy development. He represents oil and gas, mining, and renewable energy clients to acquire, develop, operate, and finance large-scale energy projects.

Mark has extensive experience representing clients on surface and mineral leasing, wind and solar leasing, land transactions, federal, state, and local permitting, due diligence, and financing. He frequently represents clients on projects involving some combination of federal, state, private, and Indian lands. He has more than a decade of experience coordinating project development with various federal and state agencies.

Mark also represents clients in administrative hearings and litigation related to energy development. He frequently works with and appears before various administrative agencies. He counsels and represents midstream oil and gas and other companies in exercising eminent domain for roads, pipelines, transmission lines, and other facilities. He has litigated ownership and land use disputes in both federal and state court.

Personal

Education:

- University of Utah, S. J. Quinney College of Law (Juris Doctorate, 2007)

- Utah State University (Biology Major; Chemistry Minor, 2004)