Patrick Deem

Patrick D. Deem focuses his practice in the areas of real estate and minerals, commercial transactions, and business organizations. Mr. Deem’s experience includes significant involvement in mergers, acquisitions, and all aspects of financing.

EXPERIENCE:

• Assisted Fortune 500 company in connection with the drilling of several hundred wells for the exploration and development of oil and gas in the Appalachian Basin
• Assisted gas production company in the sale of oil and gas properties
• Assisted oil and gas company and its domestic and international partners in all phases of the acquisition of mineral properties (in excess of 10,000 acres) for the development of a new underground coal mining operation
• Assisted title insurance company and its clients in the closing of numerous commercial transactions involving properties situated in West Virginia having an aggregate value in excess of $30,000,000.00
• Represented international entity in the purchase of an equity interest in a U.S. coal mining company and in the subsequent IPO of the coal mining company
• Represented a publicly traded entity in the sale of volumetric production payments from future production of gas wells owned by it
• Represented regional and national entities in the purchase and sale of mineral properties including producing coal properties and oil and gas leaseholds and producing wells

Education:

• J.D. West Virginia University
• A.B. Marietta College

Memberships:

• President, West Virginia Bar Association
• Chambers USA America’s Leading Lawyers for Business
• Corporations, Banking and Business Law Committee, West Virginia State Bar
• West Virginia State Bar Liaison to the American Bar Association Committee on Corporate Laws
• Past Chair, West Virginia College of Law Visiting Committee
• Independent Oil & Gas Association
• Vice Chair of the Board, West Virginia United Health System
• Chairman, Board of Directors, United Summit Center
• Past Member, Harrison County Board of Education