Companies are signing NDAs all the time, and they frequently have an international component. NDAs are not all the same. Before a company signs one, it should understand the significance the "risks, dangers, and benefits" of the typical provisions in an NDA and thus why a company may want a particular provision to read one way or instead another or to be omitted all together.

Speaker:
Peck Hayne

Peck Hayne focuses his practice on energy-related transactions and regulation. He regularly negotiates, drafts, and advises both landowners and developers on complex purchase and sale agreements, operation agreements, mineral leases, carbon sequestration agreements, hydrogen and hydrocarbon storage agreements, pipeline right-of-way and transportation agreements, production payments agreements, and settlement agreements in complex litigation and disputes. He renders title opinions on complex titles in Louisiana and the Outer Continental Shelf and assists both lenders and borrowers in the financing of onshore and offshore mineral and industrial properties. He helped draft the Louisiana Public Service Commission's pipeline regulations and the Louisiana State Mineral and Energy Board's current lease form.