Our Team

DAVE HATCH is an oil and gas title and transactional attorney. He previously worked for seven years in the Salt Lake City office of Holland & Hart LLP. Dave has extensive experience with drilling title, division order, financing, and acquisition title opinions. He provides efficient and reliable work on simple to complex issues involving federal, state, Indian, and private lands from the Bakken to the Permian. He also represents clients in all types of oil and gas transactions, including conducting due diligence, drafting and negotiating agreements, resolving issues, and getting deals to the closing table. Before law school, Dave gained valuable experience and deeper understanding of issues from the client’s perspective working as a landman for an independent oil and gas company. During that time, he gained broad exposure to workings of an upstream oil and gas company by running title in the county records, negotiating oil and gas leases and assignments, and managing the company’s land database. Dave speaks frequently at industry conferences. He is an active member of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation and the American Association of Professional Landmen. He received his J.D. from University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law and B.A. in Business Administration from the University of Utah.