Valkyrie “Kyrie” Buffa focuses her practice on regulatory and permitting compliance, royalty valuation, and administrative appeals. Kyrie also handles transactional matters across the energy industry for Beatty & Wozniak. She represents clients in enforcement actions and complex regulatory proceedings before both federal and state agencies and their administrative review boards, and in federal district court.
Kyrie regularly advises energy clients on upstream and midstream regulatory requirements and has experience drafting and reviewing leases, purchase and sale agreements (PSAs), joint operating agreements (JOAs), master service agreements (MSAs), and decommissioning contracts. She also supports clients engaged in New Mexico energy-related rulemaking proceedings.
Before joining the firm, Kyrie practiced in the Houston office of Liskow & Lewis, where she focused on federal offshore leasing and operations in the Gulf, as well as federal trademark law. Before joining our team, she spent time in the oil and gas industry and the environmental non-profit sector, providing her with a well-rounded perspective on energy regulation and development.
Kyrie is an active member of the Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law and the Institute for Energy Law. She earned her law degree from Louisiana State University, where she was awarded membership in the national honor society Order of the Barristers, recognizing excellence in oral and written advocacy. Kyrie graduated with summa cum laude honors from the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, where she majored in business.
