Angela Franklin

Angela Franklin is a business and energy transactions lawyer and partner at Holland & Hart with offices listed in Salt Lake City and Anchorage. Angela advises emerging energy and traditional natural resources clients on acquisitions, divestitures, mergers, exploration, development, financing, and related transactions. Her practice combines business deal work with title and land experience, helping clients structure projects and address regulatory requirements affecting energy, mining, and natural resources assets.

Angela earned a J.D. from the University of Wyoming and a B.S. from the University of Wyoming. Her legal and business-oriented training supports a practice focused on transactions, title review, due diligence, land interests, and complex project documentation. Decades of work involving federal, state, Indian, and private lands have strengthened her ability to identify ownership, leasing, and regulatory issues that can affect a transaction.

Angela has led or supported major acquisitions, divestitures, exchanges, pipeline reviews, mining projects, and oil and gas transactions. Her work includes title opinions, due diligence reviews, purchase and sale agreements, operating agreements, easements, exploration agreements, and financing matters. She also advises clients on leasing, permitting, distressed assets, carbon capture, hydrogen, lithium, water rights, and other evolving energy projects.

Angela Franklin has received recognition for oil and gas and energy work, including listings in Best Lawyers and Lawdragon and an AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell. Angela also has extensive professional involvement in natural resources organizations and bar sections. Her long transactional background helps businesses evaluate land and title risk, document complex deals, and complete energy and resource projects with practical legal guidance.

Law Office Affiliations

• Partner, Holland & Hart LLP
• Member, Wyoming State Bar
• Member, Utah State Bar
• Member, Alaska Bar Association
• Trustee-at-Large, The Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law (2005-2008)
• Chair, Utah State Bar, Oil and Gas Section (1994-1995)
• Member, Utah State Bar, Natural Resources and Environmental Law Section (1990-Present)
• President, Utah Association of Professional Landmen (1995-1996)
• Board of Trustees, Holland & Hart Foundation (2013-Present)
• Member, American Association of Professional Landmen (1990-Present)
• Volunteer Presenter, Expanding Your Horizons (2008-Present)
• Volunteer, Immune Deficiency Foundation (2014-Present)

Licensed State

• Wyoming
• Utah
• Alaska

Education

• University of Wyoming
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• University of Wyoming
  Bachelor of Science (BS)

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