{"id":341,"date":"2016-01-21T00:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T00:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nixlaw.wpengine.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=341"},"modified":"2025-08-13T00:01:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T00:01:43","slug":"npr-wins-yet-another-major-royalty-owner-settlement-this-time-from-enervest-and-four-point","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/es\/practice-areas\/class-action\/npr-wins-yet-another-major-royalty-owner-settlement-this-time-from-enervest-and-four-point\/","title":{"rendered":"NP Wins Major Settlement from EnerVest and Four Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NP represented a class of underpaid royalty owners in this action against SM Energy Co. and its successors, EnerVest and FourPoint. After vigorously prosecuting this action as class co-counsel for over four years, NP obtained a partial settlement with respect to the claims against EnerVest and FourPoint totaling nearly $55 million on behalf of the class. This settlement consisted of a $52 million cash payment (which alone represents approximately 100% of the class\u2019s principle claim for royalty underpayment) and contractually guaranteed future benefits that ensure EnerVest and FourPoint will not deduct certain specific costs from royalty payments for a period of 36 months. These binding changes to the Settling Parties\u2019 royalty payment methodology have a present value of at least $2.9 million.<\/p>\n<p>On December 23, 2015, the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma granted final approval of the settlement. NP continues to prosecute the remaining claims against SM Energy Co.<\/p>\n<p>NP\u2019s complex litigation team\u2014partners Jeffrey Angelovich, Brad Beckworth, Susan Whatley, Lisa Baldwin, Trey Duck, and Drew Pate\u2014led the prosecution of this case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"news_attorney_categories":[15,37,23,38,26,32],"news_categories":[17,18],"news_practice_areas":[307],"news_years":[45],"class_list":["post-341","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_attorney_categories-bradley-beckworth","news_attorney_categories-drew-pate","news_attorney_categories-jeffrey-angelovich","news_attorney_categories-lisa-baldwin","news_attorney_categories-susan-whatley","news_attorney_categories-trey-duck","news_categories-case-update","news_categories-client-results","news_years-45"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NP Secures EnerVest\/Four Point Settlement | Nix Patterson<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/practice-areas\/class-action\/npr-wins-yet-another-major-royalty-owner-settlement-this-time-from-enervest-and-four-point\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NP Secures EnerVest\/Four Point Settlement | Nix Patterson\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"NP represented a class of underpaid royalty owners in this action against SM Energy Co. and its successors, EnerVest and FourPoint. 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