Rand Marsh

Rand Marsh is a co-founder and partner of Windward Counsel and a natural-resources lawyer with three decades in oil and gas, title examination, and energy transactions. Licensed in Texas and Oklahoma, he leads the firm's critical minerals and mining practice, heads structured financing, co-heads oil and gas with Scott Beckmen, and leads title examination.

Practice

Rand's practice is the courthouse-to-closing side of energy: examining mineral title in Texas and Oklahoma and issuing drillsite, division order, acquisition, and supplemental opinions; running curative programs; negotiating leases, joint operating agreements, and acquisition documents; and structuring the financings that carry a project from claim to production. He leads the firm's critical minerals and mining practice — hard-rock and brine projects, mining claims and leases, project joint ventures with technology and offtake partners, and the royalty and stream arrangements that make a minerals project financeable — and heads structured financing: convertible notes, bridge and mezzanine facilities, royalty and stream financings, and layered capital stacks for mining and energy ventures. On the Smackover he brings the title examiner's view to the brine-ownership question — which estate holds the minerals on a given tract and how to structure lease programs that stay bankable while the law settles.

Background

Rand's career spans royalty and intellectual-property litigation, startup commercialization, and international business development in addition to his transactional and title work, which gives him an unusual view of how energy disputes actually arise and how documents prevent them. He is a member of the American Association of Professional Landmen and a frequent speaker at industry training events on title, leasing, and mineral development.

Not certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.