Chris Reagen
Associate
Haynes & Boone, LLP 

Chris Reagen is a member of the Energy, Power and Natural Resources Practice Group and assists clients in transactions involving the acquisition, development, and disposition of energy assets and mining properties. With a broad natural resources transactional practice, Chris has counseled clients in joint ventures to develop oil and gas properties, farmout agreements, purchase and sale agreements, joint development agreements, and crude oil purchase agreements. Chris has also represented upstream and midstream companies in gathering and transportation agreements and lenders and borrowers in energy finance matters.

Chris is the chair of our Indian Law Practice Group, guiding clients across industries in navigating the regulatory framework governing transactions with Indian tribes with significant experience involving the development of oil and gas resources on tribal lands. Prior to joining the firm, Chris represented some of the largest energy-producing Indian tribes in a broad range of issues related to the development of tribal natural resources.

Chris authored “The Water Transfers Rule: How an EPA Rule Threatens to Undermine the Clean Water Act,” which was published in the University of Colorado Law Review in 2011.

Professional and Community Activities:

Denver Bar Association
Colorado Bar Association
Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation
Volunteer, Denver Indian Law Center

Selected Publications and Speeches:

"Getting the Deal Through: Mining 2019 (United States)," co-author, Getting the Deal Through, April 19, 2019.
"Hiding in Plain View," co-author, World Pipelines, October 2017.
"Getting the Deal Through: Mining 2017 (United States)," co-author, Getting the Deal Through, July 2017.
"Getting the Deal Through: Mining 2016 (United States)," co-author, Getting the Deal Through, July 6, 2016.
“The Water Transfers Rule: How an EPA Rule Threatens to Undermine the Clean Water Act,” author, 83 U. Colo. L. Rev. 307, 2011.

Professional Recognition:

Included in the "Ones to Watch" category of Best Lawyers in America, Woodward/White, Inc., 2021

Sara Mouledoux Glover
Counsel
Haynes & Boone, LLP

With nearly two decades of experience in energy law, Sara Mouledoux Glover serves as counsel in Haynes and Boone’s Energy Litigation Practice Group. Sara has spent her career supporting operational needs in the oil patch and litigating and resolving disputes between lessors and lessees, operators and working interest partners, royalty owners and producers, and service providers and operators.

Sara has advised clients on matters involving surface right issues, unleased owners and cotenants, joint operating agreements, title issues, master services agreements, indemnity obligations, legacy environmental contamination, preferential rights and well control responses. On behalf of her clients, she has also drafted and negotiated transactional documents for various acquisitions, divestures, acreage swaps and carry and earning agreements often designing unique deal structures in tight capital environments. Sara’s practical approach in supporting her clients’ goals balanced against their risk tolerance has resulted in many accretive acreage acquisitions and trades with due consideration to acceptable title and lease issues. Geographically, Sara’s practice has encompassed the major U.S. shale plays, onshore and offshore Louisiana and Texas, the Gulf of Mexico and even the Bass Straights off the coast of Australia.

Sara spent the most recent six years of her practice serving as in-house counsel for one of the largest independent shale producers in the U.S. and led the legal team that supported the client’s transition of its portfolio from gas to liquids. In addition to supporting and advising on transformative transactions for the company, Sara played a pivotal role in directing risk assessments in new basins and guiding requisite operational decisions. While in-house, Sara implemented multiple trainings and educational seminars for various Land, Accounting, Midstream, Marketing and Engineering teams covering topics such as mineral law for engineers, acreage dedications, marketing provisions and royalty deductions, Texas royalty issues, common lease issues in custom Texas lease forms, retained acreage clauses, and implied covenants.

Sara’s professional recognition includes being named Texas Super Lawyers Rising Star, Thomson Reuters, 2014; Louisiana Super Lawyers Rising Star, Thomson Reuters, 2013-2014; and AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell.

Selected Publications and Speeches:

Risk- Fee Business: What You Need to Know About Recent Changes to the Louisiana Risk Fee Statute, Gordon Arata Duck Lunch Seminar (October 2012).
A Primer on Overriding Royalties, 57th Annual Institute on Mineral Law, Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University (March 2010).
Cause I'm the Taxman: Louisiana's Ad Valorem Tax Litigation Against Exploration and Production Companies (October 2009).
Implied Covenants of the Modern Mineral Lease, Professional Landmen Association of New Orleans Executive Night Seminar (February 2009).