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Patrick D. Deem

Education

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

Bar Admissions

  • West Virginia


Patrick D. Deem
Member

Patrick D. Deem
Member


Pat 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.

REPRESENTATIVE 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 U.S. 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 situate 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

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • 1969
    Steptoe & Johnson

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS / AWARDS

  • Corporations, Banking and Business Law Committee, West Virginia State Bar
  • Executive Committee, West Virginia Bar Association
  • West Virginia State Bar Liaison to the American Bar Association Committee on Corporate Laws
  • Energy & Mineral Law Foundation
  • Past Chair, West Virginia College of Law Visiting Committee
  • Chambers USA America’s Leading Lawyers for Business
  • The Best Lawyers in America®
  • 2006 Fellow, American Bar Association
  • 2002 Fellow, West Virginia Bar Foundation
  • Associate Editor, West Virginia Law Review
  • Super Lawyers®
  • Peer Review Rated AV by Martindale-Hubbell

INDUSTRY / CIVIC MEMBERSHIPS

  • Independent Oil & Gas Association
  • West Virginia Oil & Natural Gas Association
  • Board Member, West Virginia United Health System
  • Harrison County Chamber of Commerce
  • Chairman, Board of Directors, United Summit Center
  • Past Member, Harrison County Board of Education

Mr. Deem has been a featured speaker at West Virginia CLE seminars and at seminars for the Energy & Mineral Law Foundation, the West Virginia Independent Oil & Gas Association, and the American Association of Professional Landmen concerning mineral and real estate matters.