Holland & Hart LLP is pleased to announce that experienced oil & gas royalty litigation and transactional attorney Rosario Doriott Domínguez has joined the firm as a partner in the Denver office. Rosario brings sophisticated experience serving clients facing complex royalty audits, demands, compliance issues, transactional concerns, and litigation.
Rosario advises oil and gas companies, ranging from small, specialized operators to multi-national companies, on critical royalty reporting, payment, and compliance issues. She represents payors operating on federal, Indian, state, and private lands, and those operating under federal leases in the Pacific and Gulf of Mexico.
Rosario guides her clients through self-audits and in responding to governmental audits, including data mining requests, compliance reviews, enforcement inquiries, and other investigations by the Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR), the Department of Justice, the Office of Inspector General, and State Departments of Audit.
She also represents clients seeking royalty refunds and disputing royalty demands, including orders to pay, orders to perform restructured accounting, civil penalties, and denials of cost allocation and valuation proposals. Rosario regularly appears before ONRR, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Interior Board of Land Appeals, and in federal district and appellate courts. Clients rely on Rosario for her insights on regulatory rulemaking and her proactive guidance on compliance with new rules and policies.
Before joining Holland & Hart, Rosario was a partner at Ryan Law Firm, where she led the firm’s oil and gas royalty practice.
“We are delighted to include a partner of Rosario’s caliber to our oil and gas team,” said Emily Schilling, Environmental Practice Group Leader. “Rosario’s clients appreciate her painstaking attention to detail and her ability to identify and pursue opportunities for cost saving: over the years, her work has included saving producers an estimated $25 billion in costs. Her approach to developing novel legal arguments persuasive to regulators and courts aligns with our team’s longstanding focus on creative solutions that vigorously promote clients’ business interests.”
“My clients and I are very excited about my move to Holland & Hart,” said Rosario. “The firm has a well-established reputation for excellence throughout the Mountain West on environmental and natural resources issues as well as legal and regulatory matters impacting the oil and gas industry. I’m looking forward to collaborating with the talented lawyers on these teams and the ability to offer the full breadth of the firm’s services to my clients.”