EXPERIENCE

Mr. Sheridan practices primarily in complex commercial litigation. He has over 30 years of trial, appellate, arbitration and alternative dispute resolution experience, including extensive work in antitrust, breach of contract, real property, land use, oil and gas, water rights, Indian law and litigation arising out of administrative regulation of business.

Representative examples of Mr. Sheridan's cases include:

 Trial on behalf of oil and gas producers of complex breach of contract action against public utility, obtaining $31.9 million federal court jury verdict for plaintiffs.

 Defense of privately held real estate developer in multiple lawsuits brought by citizen group to block development of corporate office campus based on zoning regulations and restrictive covenants.

 Trial on behalf of United States of antitrust suit under Section 7 of the Clayton Act to block merger in mining industry.

 Lead counsel for eight defendants in federal securities fraud action arising out of sale of privately held business in outside advertising industry to private equity fund.

 Defense of national title insurer in complex insurance bad faith claim and business tort action.

 Representation of major publicly-held corporate defendants in media and health care industries in consumer class action antitrust and unfair trade practices litigation.

 Trial on behalf of hundreds of non-Indian water rights owners of major federal Indian water rights case, adjudicating surface and groundwater claims of Pueblo Indians.

 Representation of City of Santa Fe in complex declaratory judgment action to determine contract rights of major real estate development to use city groundwater wells and obligations to comply with city water use restrictions.

 Representation of a multi-national natural resources company in complex state corporate income tax matter, contesting state tax assessment on foreign source income and disallowance of tax deductions.

 Appellate counsel to diversified energy company in series of federal appeals, including a petition for writ of certiorari in the U. S. Supreme Court, concerning royalty accounting for oil and gas production on Indian land.

Mr. Sheridan began practicing law in Chicago in 1976, moving to New Mexico in 1981, where he was a member of Campbell, Carr, Berge & Sheridan, P.A. until its merger with Holland & Hart on January 1, 2001. In 1995-96, Mr. Sheridan served as a Trial Attorney in the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. and was a recipient of the Division's 1995 Outstanding Contribution Award. Mr. Sheridan was the administrative partner in Holland & Hart's Santa Fe office in 2001, and served as the firm's resident partner in Washington, D.C. in 2002-2003. He is listed in Chambers USA America's Leading Lawyers for Business and The Best Lawyers in America.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

 Member, State Bar of New Mexico

 Member, American Bar Association

EDUCATION

London School of Economics and Political Science (LL.M., 1975)

University of Illinois (J.D., 1974)

Benedictine College (A.B., 1970)
- magna cum laude