Harry H. Selph, II, Of Counsel

Oklahoma City Office
Chase Tower
100 N. Broadway, Suite 1700
Oklahoma City, OK 73102-9211
T (405) 232-0621
F (405) 232-9659
HSelph@FellersSnider.com
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Harry Selph is a transactional lawyer with extensive experience in all aspects of oil and gas law, energy and natural resources law, contracts, real estate, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, and utility law.

Harry’s career has been highlighted by serving as the managing partner or coordinating attorney for several extremely large engagements for the firm. These engagements included an almost ten year period when the firm defended several pipeline companies in natural gas contract litigation (colloquially referred as the “take-or-pay” wars) involving over two hundred cases with collective alleged damages of over $2 billion. More recently, he has been the lead business lawyer in an engagement relating to the assignment of oil and gas properties valued at more than $1.5 billion which are located in all of the producing states in the United States as well as the Gulf of Mexico and Canada. He also coordinated the efforts of a dozen firm attorneys in a series of arbitration proceedings held over a two year period at the Oklahoma Corporation Commission involving over sixty telecommunication companies. Through the years, he also has managed the efforts of various teams of attorneys and legal assistants in regard to very large due diligence projects, acquisitions and dispositions of assets on behalf of energy companies, hedge funds and investment partnerships. His supervisory duties have included the firm’s representation of officers and directors in class action security cases involving Oklahoma-based energy utility companies, as well as representation of those utilities in various rate cases and other administrative proceedings.

Harry has over 25 years of experience in representing energy exploration and production companies as their outside general counsel. In this role, he has been called upon to handle or direct all legal matters relating to those companies including contracting, insurance law, employment, acquisition or disposition of assets, and litigation. He has also represented such companies in regard to public offering of partnership interests and IPOs. Harry has represented numerous mineral owners in regard to leasing and sales of their interests. He has also served as an arbitrator in oil and gas disputes.

Practices

Education

University of Oklahoma (J.D., 1970) Editor-in-Chief, Oklahoma Law Review, 1969-1970
Oklahoma State University (B.S., 1965)

Bar Admissions

Admitted to practice in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma, U.S. Supreme Court, and all Oklahoma State District Courts
Admitted to bar, 1970, Oklahoma

Professional Memberships

American Bar Association
Oklahoma Bar Association
Fellow: Oklahoma Bar Foundation
Oklahoma County Bar Association.

Community Leadership & Activities

Member of the Board of Governors of the OSU Foundation and member of the Investment Committee
Past Chairman of the Associates supporting the College of Business at Oklahoma State University
Former Trustee of the Oklahoma State University Foundation
Member of the Administrative Board of the St. Luke's United Methodist Church of Oklahoma City

Awards & Honors

Best Lawyers in America
- 2012 – Selected by his peers for inclusion in the specialty areas of: Corporate Law, Energy Law, Natural Resources Law and Oil & Gas Law.
- 2011 - Selected by his peers for inclusion in the specialty areas of: Energy Law, Natural Resources Law and Oil & Gas Law.
- 2010 – Selected by his peers for inclusion in the specialty areas of: Energy Law, Natural Resources Law and Oil & Gas Law.
Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent Rating-25 Years (2010)
Corporate Counsel Top Lawyers: 2010 and 2011
Oklahoma Super Lawyers®: 2007 (Energy & Natural Resources)

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