Bryan D. Rohm

Bryan D. Rohm is an associate in the Pittsburgh office. His practice is focused on commercial litigation, with an emphasis on oil and gas matters and toxic tort cases. Bryan represents oil and gas producers, processors and pipeline companies throughout Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia in a wide variety of matters, including right of way disputes, surface disputes, preliminary injunctions, lease termination cases, implied covenant litigation, down-hole operations, seismic trespass, contract litigation, groundwater contamination litigation, royalty disputes, zoning matters, and eminent domain.

Prior to joining K&L Gates, Bryan was an associate at a Pittsburgh based law firm where he focused on oil and gas transactions and litigation, as well as representing both debtors and creditors in various bankruptcy related matters and adversary proceedings.

Bryan’s oil and gas experience includes:

• Representing midstream companies in resolving surface and right of way disputes with landowners and competing easement holders throughout Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia.
• Representing midstream companies in obtaining preliminary and permanent injunctions from unauthorized operations on right of way.
• Representing midstream companies in obtaining declaratory and injunctive relief to enforce rights on existing right of ways.
• Representing a midstream company in construction practices litigation.
• Representing oil and gas companies in resolving lease disputes with landowners regarding various lease termination issues, including production in paying quantities, commencement of operations, and implied covenants.
• Representing oil and gas companies in down-hole operations litigation.
• Representing an oil and gas company in challenging eminent domain proceedings.
• Representing oil and gas companies in bad faith unitization litigation.
• Representing oil and gas companies in quiet title and title washing litigation.
• Representing oil and gas companies in groundwater contamination litigation.
• Representing an oil and gas company in wastewater disposal litigation.
• Representing a midstream company in zoning appeal matters for obtaining approval to construct a natural gas compressor station.
• Representing an industry trade organization before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals on force majeure issues in New York.
• Representing industry trade organizations on appeals to Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth, Superior and Supreme Courts.
• Representing oil and gas companies in various oil and gas related bankruptcy matters.
• Representing an oil and gas company in relation to Pennsylvania’s Oil and Gas Conservation Law.
• Representing a midstream company before the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court in a challenge to a municipality’s refusal to enforce Pennsylvania’s Act 13 of 2012.