Catherine Bazile

Catherine Bazile represents clients in the acquisition, exploration, production, and divestiture of oil and gas properties, including negotiating and drafting purchase and sale agreements, exploration and development agreements, leases, joint operating agreements, farmout agreements, surface use agreements, and financing agreements, and conducting extensive due diligence.  In addition, Catherine examines title to fee, state, federal, and Indian lands throughout the Rocky Mountain region, renders drilling, division order, acquisition, and financing title opinions, and counsels clients on all aspects of title curative work.  She further advises clients on a wide range of issues relating to mineral conveyances and federal, state, and fee oil and gas leases.

Catherine is admitted to practice in Colorado and Wyoming.

Previously, Catherine was an of counsel attorney with Holland & Hart LLP in Denver for nearly nine years.  She also was an associate at Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP in Denver and completed a one-year judicial clerkship with Justice Allison H. Eid of the Colorado Supreme Court (now a U.S. Tenth Circuit judge).  She graduated from Georgetown University Law Center, cum laude, in 2005, and received her undergraduate degrees, summa cum laude and with highest honors, from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2002. She was named a Rising Star in Energy and Natural Resources by Colorado Super Lawyers in 2011, 2012, 2014, 2018, and 2019.

Publications and Speeches:

• “Stipulations of Interest as Enforceable Agreements,” The Rocky Mountain Landman, Volume 42, Issue 8 (March 2025)
• “The Intersection of Force Majeure Clauses and Drilling Deadlines,” The Rocky Mountain Landman, Volume 41, Issue 7 (February 2024)
• “Double Fractions: What is 1/2 of 1/8?”, The Rocky Mountain Landman, Volume 40, Issue 9 (April 2023)
• “Overriding Royalty Anti-Washout Clause Washed Out by the Rule Against Perpetuities,” The Rocky Mountain Landman, Volume 38, Issue 1 (July 2020)
• “Allocation of Non-Participating Royalty Interests and the ‘Subject To’ Clause in Texas,” The Rocky Mountain Landman, Volume 35, Issue 10 (May 2018)
• “The Nuts and Bolts of Farmout Agreements,” Holland & Hart News Update (August 2014)
• “Non-Participating Royalty Interests,” The Rocky Mountain Landman, Volume 31, Issue 4 (November 2013)
• “Application of the Duhig Rule in North Dakota,” The Rocky Mountain Landman, Volume 30, Issue 3 (September 2012)
• Presentation on Farmout Agreements, Denver Association of Division Order Analysts (June 2010)

Professional Affiliations:

• Denver Association of Oil and Gas Title Lawyers
• Denver Association of Professional Landmen