About French Benton
Serving the Permian Basin
Our presence and exposure to the day to day business of the Permian Basin gives us unique insight into the region and allows us to provide exceptional legal services to clients located all over the country. Our clients range in size from small start ups, family offices, medical professionals, and multinational oil and gas service companies. No matter is to small and we truly enjoy working on the ground level with smaller organizations and helping startup businesses grow through their lifecycle.
Primary Practice Areas
MINERAL LAW
French Benton represents oil and gas royalty and working interests owners and operators, surface owners, and other interested parties in a wide range of oil and gas and mineral-related disputes and transactions.
OUTSOURCED GENERAL COUNSEL
French Benton has the substantial knowledge and experience to successfully handle your most complex litigation matters, as well as your routine disputes.
Business LITIGATION
French Benton provides experienced attorneys to assist you with all aspects of your business and its life cycles, from formation and planning, through growth and expansion, in the preparation of contracts and transaction documents, and in sales and acquisitions.
Our Partners
Mathew French
Lawyer
Matt French’s practice focuses on oil and gas related litigation and business transactions. He represents clients in lawsuits relating to general business disputes, oil and gas lease disputes, mineral disputes, contract disputes, joint ventures, and other commercial litigation. Matt also regularly advises oil and gas service companies and other businesses as outside general counsel regarding their day to day operations, MSA review, entity formation, employment contracts, purchase and sale agreements, and acquisitions. He has helped many local oil and gas service companies from entity formation to profitable acquisitions. Matt also has an extensive practice advising mineral and land owners and litigating suits related to mineral and land disputes in the Permian Basin.
JD Benton
Lawyer
JD Benton has a versatile practice in civil litigation that encompasses all aspects of law including transactional, corporate, mergers and acquisitions, oil and gas law, entity formation and structuring, estate planning, mineral and royalty disputes, and debt collection among many others. JD has collected more than 8 million dollars for his clients in his career as an attorney practicing in Midland. While he does practice in a wide range of areas, the majority of his focus is representing small operators and service companies in the oil and gas sector across the Permian Basin. As an advocate and counselor, JD’s goal is simple – to help his clients solve their problems in the most practical and effective way possible. When his clients ask for guidance, he gives it to them. When his clients want to go to court, he meets them at the courthouse steps.