With extensive experience as an expert witness and board advisor, Gene Soltero delivers consulting and testimony for litigation, arbitration, and regulatory matters in the oil, gas, and energy sectors. His more than 50 years in the c-suite provides rare insight into the technical, financial, and contractual complexities that arise in disputes, transactions, and daily operations.
As founder of Cimarron Capital and former CEO of multiple public and private energy companies, Mr. Soltero brings firsthand experience resolving critical challenges in the field, in the boardroom, and across international markets.
Areas of Focus
Expert Witness Support, for example:
- Preparation of expert reports, depositions, and trial testimony
- Economic modeling and valuation in dispute contexts
- Public company governance and disclosure issues
- Contract analysis and interpretation
- Damages Analysis
- Board Relationship Issues
Mediation & Arbitration Advisory, for example:
- Disputes involving joint venture and operating agreements
- Conflicts over operating procedures
- Conflicts over accounting procedures
- Claims related to hydrocarbon production, processing, transportation, and infrastructure
- Support for restructuring and renegotiation of two-party agreements and multi-party agreements
- Disputes involving contract interpretation
Strategic Technical Consulting, for example:
- Independent review and analysis of the use and applications of artificial intelligence for different entities from the senior executive viewpoint, independent of industry
- Assistance in developing capital allocation strategies
- Preparation of fuzzy cognitive maps and neural network relationships, independent of industry or capital market
- Legacy contracts analysis for compliance and/or hidden economic opportunities
- Organization and/or upgrading of deal flow pipelines
- Entity reorganizations
- "Red Flag" analysis of potential acquisition targets based on publicly available information
Representative Agreements and Contracts
To demonstrate the range of experience that can be relied upon for expert witness, dispute resolution and consulting, we list below many (but not all) of the types of agreements, contracts and documents that Gene Soltero has personally negotiated and signed over his career.
Upstream:
- Area of Mutual Interest Agreements
- Asset Purchase and Sale Agreements
- Chemical Treatment Contracts
- Contract Employee Agreements with Landmen, Geologists, Engineers and Roustabouts
- Data Room Access Agreements
- Drilling Contracts (Daywork, Turnkey, Footage)
- Enhanced Oil Recovery Contracts
- Exploration & Production Sharing Agreements
- Exploration Joint Venture Agreements
- Farmout Agreements
- Field Management Agreements
- Foreign Concession Agreements
- Geological and Geophysical Services Agreements
- Geophysical Data License Agreements
- Joint Operating Agreements
- Lease Acquisition Participation Agreements
- Lease Auction Participation Agreements
- Lease Purchase Option Agreements
- Oil, Gas & Mineral Leases
- Overriding Royalty Agreements
- Plugging & Abandonment Agreements
- Producing Property Purchase Option Agreements
- Pumper Services Agreements
- Technical Service Agreements
- Technology License Agreements for Tellurics, Microaeromagnetics, and Downhole Electromagnetics
- Unitization and Pooling Agreements
- Water Hauling Agreements
- Well Participation Agreements
- Well Service Contracts
- Well Service Equipment Purchase Agreements
Midstream & Marketing:
- Crude Oil Exchange Agreements
- Crude Oil Sales Agreements
- Ethane/Propane-by-Rail Logistics Agreement
- Gas Processing and Fractionation Agreements
- Interconnection Agreements
- Joint Marketing Agreements
- Marketing Agency Agreements
- Marketing Services Agreements
- Natural Gas Exchange Agreements
- Natural Gas Purchase and Sale Agreements
- Natural Gas Transportation Agreements
- Netback Pricing Agreements
- NGL Fractionation Agreement
- NGL Offtake Agreements
- NGL Sales Agreements
- Storage Agreements
- Terminal Use and Storage Contracts
- Throughput Agreements
- Tolling Agreements
Downstream
- Refinery Cost of Service Agreements
- Refinery Feedstock Purchase Agreements
- Refinery Feedstock Finance Agreements
- Refinery Lease Agreements
- Refinery Processing Agreements
Project Development:
- Compressor Station Construction Contracts
- Drill Site Rental Agreements
- Engineering, Procurement & Construction Contracts
- Pipeline and terminal cost of service agreements
- Right-of-Way Agreements
- Surface Use and Site Lease Agreements
- Transfer of Project Agreement
- Water Disposal and Reuse Agreements
Finance, Mergers and Acquitisions
- Acquisition and Merger Term Sheets
- Confidential Offering Memoranda
- Convertible Note and Equity Subscription Agreements
- Investment Banking Advisory Agreements
- Joint Venture Operating Agreements
- Joint Venture Participation Agreements
- Private Placement Agreements
- Project Finance Term Sheets
- Public Offering Agreements
- Registered Representative Commission Sales Agreements
- Reserve-Based Lending Agreements
- Royalty Conveyances and Net Profits Interests
- SEC Registration and Disclosure Documents
- Securities Purchase and Sale Agreements
- Vendor Agreements to Exchange Receivables for Shares of Registered Stock
- Well Service Equipment Finance Agreements
- Well Services Exchange Agreements for Deferred Production Payments
Corporate and Governance:
- Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws
- Auditor Engagement Agreements
- Board Governance Charters
- Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Agreements
- Consulting Agreements
- Executive Employment Agreements
- General Partnership Operating Agreements
- Law Firm Engagement Agreements
- Limited Partnership Operating Agreements
- LLC Operating Agreements
- Memoranda of Understanding
- Proxy Solicitation Agreements
- Publicity Firm Engagement Agreements
- Sarbanes-Oxley Section 302 Certifications
- Shareholder Rights Agreements
- Transfer Agent Agreements
Credentials & Affiliations
- President and COO of the energy subsidiaries of a Fortune 500 natural resources corporation and member of the Board of Managers, gaining insights into coal mining, iron ore mining and transportation, LNG shipping, refined products shipping and cement plant operations
- Director, President and COO of a small public integrated petroleum corporation on OTC-NASDAQ with a 30,000 B/D refinery, two separate gas gathering systems, U.S. oil and gas wells and in Colombia, South America, a producing oil field and a 1.25 million acre exploration concession
- Director and CEO (and occasional concurrent CFO) of three other small public companies with experience moving from Pink Sheets to NASDAQ Small Cap, from Canadian Dealing Network to Toronto Stock Exchange to American Stock Exchange, and an IPO on the American Stock Exchange
- Assistant to the President and Manager of Economics and Planning for a small diversified petroleum company on the Pacific Stock Exchange with onshore U.S. oil and gas production, three drilling rigs, oil drilling limited partnerships, 1,000 producing oil wells in Argentina and interest in an Alaskan oilfield
- Director and CEO of two private oil companies funded by private equity
- Managing Beneficial Owner of a small private placement agency
- Registered Professional Engineer
- Registered Securities Professional
- Educated at M.I.T. and Cooper Union
- Numerous professional affiliations
- Retained Energy Consultant at Point72 Asset Management
- Currently listed at Round Table Group and Gerson Lehrman Group, having completed assignments for both groups
Availability
Mr. Soltero is available as a testifying or consulting expert for litigation, arbitration, and technical dispute resolution involving domestic or international energy matters.
To inquire about availability, conflict checks, or scope of work, please contact us through our contact form and we will respond promptly.
