Land and Energy are the very cornerstones of life as we know it. They are in fact, the natural capital within the currency exchange of our very existence. It then follows that we are reliant upon those that conserve land and natural resources, to produce food, or find energy, and deliver it. For many, the air they breathe, the food they eat and the water they drink, depend entirely on the deliverance of energy.
Under all things, lies the land. Under and above the land, exists energy resources. The complex challenges of land ownership and energy production in all forms has never been more visible, more entwined, more critical, nor in fact, the inherent charge more clear.
Never has our world been so dependent on Energy and specifically upon critical, evolving, innovation within the sector. Peace, prosperity, conservation and survival of the world population relies on energy.
In Texas, Ranch and Mineral ownership, optically, have always been synonymous in the purview of the public. The realities are of course oftentimes different. That said, the wildcatters, first cowboys and cattle barons together with all the legends and legacies of the past have given way to today’s innovative stewards of land and energy after a journey through centuries.
Stewards of the land and entrepreneurs of energy must in many instances balance the same scales of use, production, diversity, conservation, and responsibility, equating to longevity. They must first be learned students of history’s accomplishments and failures, to then be responsible innovators and entrepreneurs of efficiencies today and tomorrow.
TITLE SPONSOR OF D CEO’S ENERGY AWARDS 2023
Icon Global was pleased to again be a title sponsor of D CEO Magazine’s - The Energy Awards 2023.
Gillea Allison, President of D, welcomed guests and Icon Global’s, Bernard Uechtritz presented opening remarks to executives, finalists and attendees of the Texas oil, gas, and renewable energy community.
In the final presentation of the evening, senior editor D CEO Christine Perez, together with Bernard Uechtritz provided the introduction, highlights and additional commentary recognizing and celebrating the milestone personal, corporate and community accomplishments of Legacy Award Winner, Kelcy Warren of Energy Transfer.
Eleven categories of awards included Energy Finance Leader of the year, Mid-Stream Executive of the year, Upstream Executive of the year, Renewable Energy Executive of the year, Rising Star/Future Leader award, Private Equity Executive of the year, Private Equity Firm of the year, Excellence in Innovation and Technology, Excellence in Renewables and Sustainable Energy, Deal of the year and the Industry Legacy Award.
For in-depth coverage of finalists and winners in each category, as well as the complete article covering Kelcy Warren, “How Kelcy Warren’s Pipeline Dream Powered a Nation.”
Click the links below.
Award Winners Link
Article Link
Other title sponsors were Forvis, an international audit, tax, and consulting financial services company; The Jackson Walker Law firm and Texas Mutual - workers’ compensation insurance specialists.
Icon Global additionally appreciated the participation and support of all attendees, including signature sponsors, Canes Midstream, Clearfork Midstream, Elk Range Royalties, Matador Resources Company, Mercer Capital Business Valuation & Financial Advisory Services, UTA - The University of Texas at Arlington, as well as Table Sponsors- Energy Transfer, Stream Realty, and Tailwater Capital.
All guests received the D CEO November advance issue together with the Icon Global properties special edition property brochure.
The D CEO Energy Awards in part, within in our region, recognizes the very stewards, entrepreneurs, leaders, and innovators of a critical sector which our state, our nation and to whom in fact our world looks to and relies upon. These folks are a illuminant and exemplary cross section of equals the world over in an incredibly vital and important sector.
TURKEY TRACK RANCH
$79.9M MT. SOLITUDE RANCH
ON MARKET SOUTH CREEK RANCH
$16.4M KARNS RANCH - NORTH & SOUTH
$19.9M BOSQUE MOUNTAIN RANCH
$16.365M
SUNSET HILL RANCH
$11.1M
KLEIN DAILY RANCH
COMING SOON FERRIS RANCH
$5.5M MAXWELL AERO
$12.5M THE CRESTVIEW ESTATE
TEMP OFF-MARKET BLUE MOUNTAIN RANCH
$7.5M WILD SABINE SANCTUARY
$5.4M COMMISSARY POINT
BERNARD UECHTRITZ Founder,
Global
In 2016 Uechtritz successfully led the unprecedented global marketing and record-breaking sales campaign of America’s most Iconic Ranch – The legendary
535,000± acre – $725 Million Dollar – W.T. Waggoner Estate Ranch, in Vernon, Texas.
Icon Global was founded by Dallas-based, international real estate advisor, Australian Bernard Uechtritz. Icon is a globally connected, independent full-service firm that specializes in unique, one- of-a-kind real property assets and business opportunities. about
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Icon Global designs and implements strategic, tactical, marketing and sales campaigns for unique real estate.
We align and partner with brokers agents and agencies globally.
Successfully representing properties in price ranges from $5, $50, $500 million, & beyond.
SOLD | $725M W.T. WAGGONER RANCH
SOLD | $100M TOMAS RANCH
SOLD | $59.5M BAREFOOT RANCH
SOLD | $240M SANDOW LAKES RANCH
THE RESERVE & SULPHUR BLUFF
SOLD | $40M KB CARTER RANCH
SOLD | $34.22M BROSECO RANCH
SOLD | $32.5M KC7 RANCH
SOLD | $25.9M LELY RANCH
DODGE RANCH
SOLD | $16.562M RED RIVER RANCH
SOLD | $27M PECAN PLANTATION
SOLD | $23.9M FOX CANYON RANCH
SOLD | $17.136M BOGATA FARM
SOLD | $15.5M SUGAREE RANCH
Featured on the following media outlets across the US and around the world
Featured on the following media outlets across the US and around the world
Featured on the following media outlets across the US and around the world
Featured on the following media outlets across the US and around the world
Featured on the following media outlets across the US and around the world
Featured on the following media outlets across the US and around the world
Featured on the following media outlets across the US and around the world
Featured on the following media outlets the US and around the world
featured in media outlets across the US and around the world
BACK ON MARKET
SOUTH CREEK RANCH
5,400± acres
Dallas & Ellis County
MASTER PLANNED
DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY
RANCH
$79.9M
MT. SOLITUDE RANCH
3,630± acres
Northwest Bexar County, TX
BACK ON MARKET
ADENA SPRINGS FARM
2,300± acres
Bourbon County, KY
DESIGNED FOR HORSEMEN BY HORSEMEN FOR ANY EQUESTRIAN | ANY BREED OFFERED COMPLETE TURNKEY OR SUBDIVIDED
OPPORTUNITY FOR CO-OP OR MULTI USE FARM OWNERSHIP
HORSEPARK & EVENT CENTER POTENTIAL
• CONVERTIBLE OFFICE & STALLION COMPLEX
• 10 LARGE 3 STALL RUN-IN SHEDS
• 7 BREEDING BARNS | 250 STALLS
• EXECUTIVE HOMES & 24 EMPLOYEE HOUSES
• 20 MILES OF BLACKTOP PAVED ROADS
• 80± MILES OF 4-BOARD & DIAMOND MESH HORSE FENCING
$24.9M 5R RANCH
2,300± acres
Cooke County, TX | On The Red River
$19.9M BOSQUE MOUNTAIN RANCH
282± acres
Bosque County, TX | 1.5 hrs from DFW
$16.4M KARNS RANCH - NORTH & SOUTH
820± acres
Athens, TX | 1.5 hrs from Dallas
$12.5M THE CRESTVIEW ESTATE
152± acres Aiken, SC
EXQUISITE EQUESTRIAN ESTATE
UPSCALE - SECURE COMPOUND
MULTIPLE AMENITIES & LODGING —
CONVERTIBLE INFRASTRUCTURE MULTI-USE OPTIONS —
EXCEPTIONAL HORSE FACILITIES
BARNS | STABLES | PASTURES BREEDING LAB
CONVERTIBLE POLO FIELD & SPECTATOR PAVILION
Big Ranches, Record-Breaking Deals, Legacy & Legend Properties
• The “Go-To, Can-Do Guy” and “Rainmaker of Real Estate”
• International real estate advisor and leading specialist broker of ranch, mega-asset class real estate, and unique, complex property sales
• Acclaimed independent and globally connected brokerage. Icon is nimble, creative, aggressive and an elite specialist marketing machine with a 30-year track record of success—also known as The Seal Team Six of Real Estate
Bernie Uechtritz holds title to the largest-ever ranch sales record in American history.
He is ranked No. 1 out of more than 23,000 agents in 71 countries across a 1,000-office global network.
Icon Global specializes in ranch and luxury ranch properties as well as commercial, industrial, and unique residential sales, with success in everything extraordinary, in-between and beyond. Icon also offers appraisal and consultancy on a range of real estate specialties.
Uechtritz has sold properties all over, many with record-breaking price tags listed from $7 million to $725 million. “No other agent or brokerage firm does quite what we do,” Uechtritz says.
Renowned sales include The Waggoner Ranch, the Menendez Estate, Barefoot Ranch, Rio Bonito Ranch, Broseco, The Reserve, Sulphur Bluff, KC7 Ranch, KB Carter, Lonesome Oak, Comanche, Fincastle, Spring Gulch and Dodge Ranches, and many more from Texas and California to Wyoming and Western Australia.
Year after year, Icon Global successfully markets and sells oneof-a-kind real estate of every size. Watch this space in 2021!
3466 Gillespie Street Dallas, Texas
214.855.4000 icon.global
BERNARD (BERNIE) UECHTRITZ, OWNER OF ICON GLOBAL
PHOTOGRAPHY
SELECT SOLDS
$725,000,000
W.T. WAGGONER RANCH
Vernon, Texas
Article Link: The Dallas Morning News sold
SOLD in 15 months
Your willingness and ability to bond with co-brokers was not only critical to your selection as the lead broker in this case, it was a major reason for the overall success of the effort. You became able to project your enthusiasm onto others, and that, in my opinion, found the right buyer to become the next custodian of this piece of Western history.”
GLEN JOHNSON, KELLY HART & HALLMAN Lawyer for Largest Shareholder
I can say without equivocation that the sale of the assets of the Estate would not have occurred, in the successful manner it did, without the expertise, skill, and Herculean efforts of Bernie Uechtritz. The details could fill a book, and I would be glad to provide much more detail to anyone who might wish to inquire.”
MIKE BASKERVILLE
For W.T. Waggoner Estate 46th Judicial District Wilbarger County, TX
$240,000,000
SANDOW LAKES RANCH
Article Link: Lands of America sold
Rockdale, Texas
We had the right broker at the right time.”
TOMMY HODGES
Former Alcoa Inc.
Rockdale Site Manager
I met Bernie, who represented ALCOA on the disposition of Sandow Lakes Ranch. I was not quite sure what to expect, but I can tell you that Bernie is smart, hard working for his clients and resourceful as any agent I have ever worked with. His knowledge of ranch land throughout the world I feel strongly is unsurpassed.
It’s a bit of a niche product type, and he has spent his entire career becoming a true master of his craft. I would strongly recommend him to any friend or client when it comes to ranch land acquisition or disposition..”
RANDALL R. KENDRICK, SLR PROPERTY I, LP
Multiple national commercial and ranch brokerage companies were interviewed through the responsive presentation requirements of the RFP process.
Mr. Uechtritz and his team’s responsive opinions of value, and unique approach along with a realistic approach in defining the marketing challenges, requirements, plans and recommendations of the 30,000 acres of land, 48,000 AcreFeet of groundwater, 19,600 Acrefeet of surface water and 2,000 acres of brownfield power sites with industrial intermodal were thorough, detailed, and extensive.”
TOMMY HODGES Former Alcoa Inc. Rockdale Site Manager
$100,000,000 TOMAS RANCH
50,000± acres sold
South Texas
Bernie suggested we utilize a stalkinghorse approach, blanket advertising and use his media connections to create the excitement to surface a buyer.
Initially, I pushed back, but again Bernie convinced us this would work, and it did. Bernie was able to get the ultimate buyer to consider the entire property, negotiate an acceptable price and close in less than one month.
Bernie’s track-record speaks for itself and is why we chose him as our agent over all other brokers. Bernie gets properties sold. From the moment he takes the listing, he is 100% committed to getting the property sold and will be creative, diligent, and flexible to get a deal done.
In our experience, Bernie helped create a competitive bidding process with a very aggressive marketing campaign and potential for a stalking-horse bid process. That creative option brought multiple offers to the table and ended with both properties being sold/closed approximately 30 days from the buyer’s initial visit to the property.”
STEVE & SHANE HAGEMAN Hageman Group, LLC
Combined list price of $83,850,000
THE RESERVE & SULPHUR BLUFF RANCH Sulphur Bluff, Texas sold
$59,500,000 BAREFOOT RANCH
Athens, Texas SOLD in 12 months sold
I can’t thank you enough for the incredible job you and your team did in helping us sell Barefoot Ranch. It was a unique asset (“one of one” as you like to say) that demanded a bespoke sales process to find just the right buyer. And you delivered!”
S. WIL VANLOH, JR. Founder & CEO Quantum Energy Partners
sold
Off-market Private Sale
MISCHER RANCH
Robertson County, Texas
TO CIRCLE X CAMP COOLEY RANCH INTERESTS
MISCHER RANCH
Bernie has represented me as a seller in two Texas ranch transactions in 2017 and and another in 2022 involving 9,200 acres.
I have been involved in real estate development and ranching throughout the United States for 48 years. I found Bernie to be a person of the highest integrity, who has deep professional knowledge, and is extremely diligent in execution of all transaction details. I would rate him as one of the top professionals I have dealt with during my enitre career.”
WALT MISCHER Mischer Ranch
PURCHASING
CAMP COOLEY
We were so impressed by Mr. Uechtritz’s honesty, integrity and hard work that we asked him to represent us in a large mineral purchase. Mr. Uechtritz again proved to be up to the challenge and performed brilliantly in successfully closing a very difficult purchase.
Mr. Uechtritz has an uncany ability to work with landowners, attorneys, accountants and other associated people and keep them all moving in the same direction. We found him to be smart, creative, persistent, driven and highly ethical.”
JERRY A. BULLIN
Camp Cooley - Circle X Ranches
THE MOODY FAMILY RANCH
Bernard Uechtritz of Icon Global Group based in Dallas, Texas was hired to sell the Rio Bonito Ranch in Mountain Home, Texas in April, 2017. The sale of the Ranch closed in December, 2017.
In the course of the ranch sale process, Mr. Uechtritz managed the expectations for multiple owners who had multiple views and opinions regarding the sale of the Ranch. He was very good at helping the owners reach a consensus regarding the sale.
In addition, he kept all of the owners informed and he did not favor one owner over another. Mr. Uechtritz did a very good job in handling the sale of the Rio Bonito Ranch and he is someone I would recommend as a ranch broker.”
“CHIP” VAN. H ARCHER, III Attorney at Law
$45,000,000 RIO BONITO RANCH
Kerr & Kimble Counties, Texas SOLD in 8 months sold
$40,000,000 KB CARTER RANCH
Oakwood, Texas SOLD in 12 months sold
Your professional expertise was an essential element in expediting the sale and negotiating the closing. Throughout we had confidence and trust that the matter would be completed without undue stress and/or problems. We were very pleased with your team and their professionalism in dealing with our attorneys, landman and support staff.”
BEN FORTSON
Fortson Oil - Fort Worth, TX
Trustee of the Mattie K. Carter Trust
While your media campaign was fantastic, including a Bloomberg television report from the ranch, I think it is your strategic vision that truly sets you apart from your contemporaries...
...perhaps the part I respected most about working with you (literally daily for four months) was your commitment to the integrity of the process...
...it’s a pleasure to call you a good professional friend and I would much rather work with you than against you at any time in the future.”
JOSEPH M. COLEMAN
Kane Russell Coleman Logan PC
$32,500,000 KC7 RANCH Balmorhea, Texas Davis Mountains SOLD in 3 months sold
$27,000,000 PECAN PLANTATION
1,500± acres sold
DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY
Granbury, Texas
On behalf of the entire Anthony family, I want to express our appreciation for the wonderful services you and your organization provided to us in the successful repositioning of our Pecan Plantation property for an exciting future.
Although our first intention was to expose the total property to the market for a definitive sale, after you had time to evaluate the uniqueness of the Pecan Plantation community, and how it was perceived by prospective buyers, your imagination and foresight directed us into a course of action that has greatly enhanced our opportunity for a much greater economic return than an outright sale.”
BENJAMIN L. ANTHONY
Pecan Plantation
Anthony Orchards
$22,000,000
TERRY BRADSHAW RANCH
744± acres sold
Red River | Thackerville, OK
$21,500,000 DODGE RANCH
Albany County, Wyoming SOLD in 7 months sold
SPRING GULCH RANCH
Jackson Hole, Wyoming sold
The ranch was very effectively marketed through numerous professional contacts and multiple other sources both nationally and internationally. Bernie even pursued Brokerage participation from other professionals after vetting all potential purchasers. Through his methods, we were convinced that the process would bring about a Buyer at a price we were willing to accept.
ICON did a great job shepherding the closing process with an incredibly difficult and demanding Buyer.
If we had to do the process over, the only change I would have recommended to our Senior Management would be to hire Mr. Uechtritz and Icon Global at the beginning of the sale process.”
MICHAEL WYANT Vice President CLMG Corp.
NEW MEXICO
$16,000,000
Watrous & Valmora, New Mexico sold
BLACK WILLOW RANCH
BB SKI RANCH
Athens, Texas
SOLD in 1 month sold
$11,950,000 FINCASTLE Athens, Texas SOLD in 9 months sold
“Bernie, great work! You did it, and we will always be appreciative of you for taking the listing. I was nervous that you might punt us to some other team, but you stayed true to the end and worked the deal with all of your magic. I have nothing but incredible things to say about you and this experience. Thank you so much for all of your efforts. The whole family is so appreciative. As am I!”
ALAN SCHOELKOPF Fincastle Farms
Listed at $17-$19,000,000 PINE CONE RANCH
Athens, Texas SOLD in 6 months sold
“Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s real estate and business advisor, Ranch and Land Division”
Successfully marketing an already stigmatized or prior failed effort to sell property’s, you must go 180 degrees from what every broker has tried before, even if that means being controversial.”
BERNARD UECHTRITZ
“Over the last himself at the highest ‘fixer’ and his conversation and The Land
Over the last two decades Uechtritz has made a name for himself at the highest levels of the real estate industry. He is a fixer and his expertise ranges from luxury and ranch to conversation and land stewardship.”
ROBERT ALBERGOTTI
Senior Partner
“Bernie obviously characteristics of properties that were He never overpromised to manage your Robert Albergotti, International
Bernie obviously knew ranches. He knew the iconic, unique characteristics of this property. He certainly had experience with properties that were comparable in appeal to the marketplace.”
“Any broker can known as the guy known as the guy
“Bernie obviously knows
ranches. He knew the iconic, characteristics of this property. He certainly has experience properties that were comparable in appeal to the marketplace.
He never
overpromised or under delivered, which is
to manage your business
CHRIS ALBRECHT CEO of STARZ Entertainment and former Chairman/CEO of HBO
Robert Albergotti, Senior Partner with Haynes & Boone International Law Firm – Dallas Texas
BLOOMBERG MARKETS
July 2015
Article Link
Bernie was one of the best luxury market brokers in Los Angeles and he would have made an absolute killing if the ranch had been developed by giant Washington Mutual Bank, yet he came down on our side. I thought to myself, ‘I can count on this guy’, and I did. Ultimately with Bernie’s help, we slayed the giant.”
Any broker can sell something for a price. I don’t want to be known as the guy who sold the Waggoner Ranch. I want to be known as the guy who saved it.” - Bernard Uechtritz
“Any broker can sell something for a price. I don’t want known as the guy who sold the Waggoner Ranch. I want known as the guy who
saved it.”
Bloomberg Markets, September 2015
TERRY BRADSHAW
Fox Sport Host, 4 Time Super Bowl Champion and NFL Hall of Fame
Article Link
Bernie brings a team approach... He’s selling one of America’s biggest and most famous ranches, the Waggoner Ranch, over half million acres, so I figure he can certainly handle my ranch!”
STEPHEN GOLDBERG
“Bernie brings a team approach... He’s selling one biggest and most famous ranches, the Waggoner Ranch, million acres, so I figure he can certainly handle my ranch
Senior Partner Spierer Woodward, Corbalis & Goldberg, Representing the Menendez Family Estate
Article Link 1
Terry Bradshaw, Fox Sport Host, 4 Time Super Bowl NFL Hall of Fame
Article Link 2
Bernie just came in and said,’ I can do this’. Did he do a great job? You bet. Bernie got offers on the table through unconventional means, pushed forward, persevered and got it done. He sold the Menendez Estate”
Polo is a longtime family passion and global networking platform for Bernard Uechtritz.
He and daughter, Olivia, are active serious competitors. Playing from their polo horse farm & private club in Mabank, Texas. Icon Global regularly fields teams and sponsors events including the World Snow Polo Championships in Aspen, French Women’s Open in Chantilly, France, the US Women’s Open in Palm Beach, Florida and Willow Bend Texas.
Polo celebrity & former Ralph Lauren modelNacho Figueras & Bernard Uechtritz faced off at the 2015 World Snow Polo Championship in Aspen and return for a 2016 Rematch at Rio Grande Park.
A professional player, Olivia Uechtritz, plays both men’s and women’s competitions and competed in the 2021 US Womans Polo Open in Palm Beach, FL.
She has previously played in the French, British, Texas and US Women’s Opens. In August of 2020 she was on the winning team of the Women’s Gold Cup in Deauville, France.
Icon Global is first and foremost a marketing company. As and when and where we do that right, we then get to be a brokerage company, executing on deals and successfully servicing clients. A majority of our deals are quiet, off market and confidential. However, if required to aggressively and internationally market with high visibility...we can...and do!”
