Pace,, Charles W. "C. W." | Spilman Thomas & Battle

Member

Charleston, WV

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

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

Nominated by his peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America for Corporate Law, Litigation - Trusts and Estates, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, and Trusts and Estates

West Virginia State Bar, Probate Committee
Director, Charleston Estate Planning Counsel, 2020—present; Member, 2012—present
Roanoke Valley Estate Planning Council, 2003—2010

Presenter, “Tricks & Treats for Estate Planners,” “Treating the Client’s Healthcare and Financial Needs in Advance,” WVCLE, October 23, 2015