Evan Dahl

• • Engaged daily with global executives, legal and finance teams, and shareholder representatives in providing escrow & paying agent services to law firms, corporations, private equity firms and internal and external bankers for mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, litigation, bankruptcy, debt capital markets, project financing, real estate, construction funds, regulatory, environmental, performance guarantees, lending and repayment, and exchange and paying agency.
  
  • 2021 & 2022 & 2023 & 2024 - Consecutive Global Top Revenue Producer (+700 closed M&A deals)
  o 2023 - $18mm in Revenue.
  o 2024 - $15mm in Revenue (as of August, 2024).
  
  • 4 years in a row Consecutive Global #1 top ranked negotiator at JPMorgan in total closed corporate escrow & paying agent transactions, all while maintaining the fastest deal activation time globally among anyone else.
  
  • 2020 & 2021 - Global #1 top ranked negotiator at JPMorgan in total closed Paycheck Protection Plan (PPP) M&A escrow transactions.
  
  • Key client relationship manager in proactively growing/managing the retention of a large portfolio of both new/old client relationships, by developing repetitive meaningful relationships with clients, law firms, private equity firms and bankers through superior service and working to maximize revenue opportunities and operating balances.
  
  • Responsible for all aspects of cash processing, account investment set-up, initial funding, release of funds, tax form review, drafting and negotiating legal agreements with client’s and their external counsel in a highly responsive and thoughtful manner ensuring that the needs of the client with respect to responsiveness and timely closing are met and all in accordance with JPMorgan’s risk profile.
  
  • Relied upon by upper management for training new junior employees in Houston, New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Brazil office locations, all in accordance with internal policies and procedures through strong leadership skills, to ensure deal information is set up on all operating systems (10 different online systems), contractual obligations denoted and daily maintain each deal within Microsoft Excel as a backup resource.

• Team Lead - Direct manager for 4 team members, managing/reviewing over 600 legal contracts in assets and calculating associated revenue across the entire United States through multiple Acquisitions.

• Head team member in the new design setup, implementation and testing of KKR’s legal agreement management system Quorum in a data conversion from Version 7 to Version 17.

• Process new Division Orders by calculating and building revenue decks for oil and gas properties.

• Resolved the ongoing Division Order Issues log with various Operator’s Owner Relations departments and recovered funds in suspense.

• Generate QQM Acreage Reports, Exhibit A’s, Weekly Status Reports.

• Final reviewer & (QC) Quality Control the work of other team members.

• Key contributor in direct meetings with the CEO, COO and VP’s for building a strategic development plan to fulfill a strict upcoming drilling schedule (Net Revenue Interest, Lease expirations, Continuing Drilling Clause’s, Contracts in place/or needed).

• Coordination and management of all land work related to day-to-day operations including, but not limited to interpreting, drafting, negotiating, preparing legal contracts and building/calculating working interest/revenue decks.

• Process and track monthly check payment requests to accounting for rentals, surface damages, caliche used for roads, water disposal fees, new well pad fees, new pipeline fees, tank battery fees, access to well locations annual fees and royalties due.

• Lilis’s sole Operations Landman handling all day-to-day land operations on a 3-rig horizontal drilling program & ensuring that drilling schedule expectations are met.

• Drafting new well proposals to 3rd party Working Interest owners.

Client - Chevron U.S.A. Inc.

• Review & manage legal contract files associated with major Acquisitions & Divestitures transactions, building out the exhibits to the underlying agreement, Purchase and Sell Agreement, Assignment and Bill of Sale, etc.

• Optimize Lead - providing guidance to a team of 12 colleagues for 300,000 net oil & gas mineral acres across the entire West Texas & New Mexico Permian-Central Basin Platform.

• Team Lead - successfully overseeing the divestment of 70,000 net oil & gas mineral acres in Central Oklahoma & Permian Basin (built & facilitated Lease data tables, PSA/Assignment Exhibit A’s, manage transfer Restrictions).

• Final reviewer & (QC) Quality Control of Data tables built by a team of 15 colleagues.

• Researched title documents & built in Microsoft Excel a Drilling Block Analysis by asset property with calculated Gross Working Interest, Net Revenue Interest & Net acres to support in determining the best future economical drill site locations & new business development opportunities.

• Review, evaluate, negotiate & draft Joint Operating Agreement’s & acreage Farm-Out/Term Assignment requests from offset 3rd party operators.

Client - Linn Energy, LLC

• Team Lead - supervising a team of 10 colleagues for over $7 Billion in new asset acquisitions, cleaning up land, mineral, oil & gas title ownership to update both internal databases.

• Land Special Project Lead - directing a team of 17 colleagues on a successful company-wide records online software system data conversion project. Core Team Member in customizing the new design setup, testing & implementation of the new online software system.

• Setup new Leases & Contracts while calculating lease acreage, provisions, working interest, net revenue interest, royalty interest, mineral interest, active well production, & explanatory notes when needed to maintain accurate records.

Client - BP America Production Company

• Team Lead - in successfully divesting a $1.2 billion-dollar deal in SW Kansas Hugoton Gas Field including 2,400 wells sold to Linn Energy, by providing organization and direction to a team of 20 colleagues.

• Team Lead - overseeing a team of 5 colleagues in successfully divesting a $228 million-dollar deal for 2500 miles of Pipeline Assets across 8 counties connected to its two Gas Processing Plants in the North Texas Panhandle sold to Eagle Rock Energy Partners.

• Team Lead - overseeing a team of 3 colleagues in successfully divesting a 2 county Pipeline Gathering System in SE Oklahoma sold to CenterPoint Energy (build & facilitate Lease data tables, PSA/Assignment Exhibit A’s, manage transfer Restrictions, map out pipeline system & locate gaps).