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Michael T. Hegarty - Senior Associate


mhegarty@fognanilaw.com
Telephone: 303.382.6206
Facsimile: 303.382.6210


Experience
  • Mike has practiced natural resources and environmental law for over ten years. His expertise in these areas extends to project permitting and regulatory compliance; national and international transactions and investment; and project development, construction and operation.

  • Mike is currently working with clients on several large mineral exploration, mining and processing projects throughout the western and mid-western United States. In this respect, Mike has provided expert advice and assistance to clients on a number of complex transactional and regulatory issues. In Colorado, he has worked extensively with certain clients during recent legislative sessions and agency rulemakings to address changes to state laws and regulations affecting the permitting and development of natural resources projects.

  • Outside the United States, Mike is representing several clients engaged in copper, gold, molybdenum, coal, coalbed methane, uranium and other mineral projects in Mongolia, Kazakhstan, China and elsewhere. Mike advises and assists these clients on myriad issues, including those relating to mineral tenure, political risk, project investment, social license, environmental protection and a host of national and international laws, regulations and standards. Mike has developed and drafted a variety of contract templates and guidance documents for day-to-day use by clients' managers, contract administrators, procurement officers and other personnel. He has also drafted and helped clients negotiate numerous specific agreements, including joint venture agreements; operating agreements; purchase and sale contracts; project management contracts; and engineering, construction and procurement contracts.


Publications
  • Co-author: Regulation of Produced Water from Coalbed Methane Development in the Rocky Mountain West, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, Special Institute on Regulation and Development of Coalbed Methane (November 2002)

  • Co-author: An Overview of Mine Waste Regulation in the United States, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, Special Institute on Mining Law and Investment in Latin America (April 2003)



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Practice Areas
Mining
Environmental
Water Law
Energy, Oil and Gas
Natural Resources Law
Real Property Law

Education
University of Denver Sturm College of Law (LL.M., Natural Resources and Environmental Law, With Honors, 2001)
University of Texas School of Law (J.D., 2000)
Member and Managing Editor, Texas Environmental Law Review (1998-2000)
Colorado College (B.A., cum laude, 1996)

Honors
Jan M. Laitos Scholar in Natural Resources Law (2000-2001)
Outstanding International Natural Resources and Environmental Law Graduate Award (2000-2001)
Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute Annual Award (2001)
Awards for Highest Grades in Economics of Natural Resources Projects; Land Use Planning; Water Law

Professional Organizations
Denver, Colorado and American Bar Associations
Colorado Mining Association
Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation

Admitted to Practice
Colorado