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

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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

Distinctions

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

Admissions

• West Virginia State Bar
• United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Memberships

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

Publications & Presentations

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

Community Involvement

• Commissioner, Vinton Town Planning Commission, 2008—2010
• Leadership Roanoke Valley, 2008
• Rotary Club of Princeton, WV, 2002—2004
• Rotary Club of Charleston, WV, 2017—present