Member
Charleston, WV
mobile 304.951.3164
Mr. Pace’s primary areas of practice are estate planning, probate, commercial transactions, corporate law, and tax.

Experience

  • Providing advice and assistance to clients on a wide array of estate planning strategies, including various forms of complex transfer tax planning strategies, business succession, special needs trusts, and charitable trusts
  • Advising and counseling fiduciaries on trust, probate, and estate matters
  • Providing advice and assistance to clients on estate and trust administration related issues
  • Providing advice and assistance in connection with business and nonprofit entity formation
  • Advising clients with respect to corporate governance issues
  • Drafting, reviewing, analyzing, and negotiating contracts, leases, asset purchase agreements, stock purchase agreements, commercial lending agreements, and other forms of transaction documents for commercial-based transactions
  • Drafting, reviewing, and analyzing contracts between coowners of closely-held organizations
  • Advising clients in connection with all forms of commercial transactions including, but not limited to, mergers and acquisitions
  • Assisting in various aspects of estate and trust-related litigation, commercial litigation, and other general forms of civil litigation
  • Advising and counseling on federal tax issues
  • Kay Casto & Chaney, PLLC, 2012—2022
  • Vice President & Personal Trust Specialist IV, BB&T Wealth Management Special Account Servicing Group, 2010—2012
  • Vice President & Personal Trust Specialist II, BB&T Wealth Management, 2005—2010
  • Trust Officer, First Community Bank, N.A., 2001—2004
  • Allen Guthrie & McHugh, PLLC, 1999—2001

Education

  • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, B.S., Accounting, summa cum laude, 1996
  • West Virginia University College of Law, J.D., 1999