Pat is an advisor to energy companies operating in Minnesota and the upper Midwest. He is the Chair of Fredrikson & Byron’s Condemnation & Eminent Domain Group, and is also a member of the Transmission, Energy and Litigation Groups. In his condemnation practice, Pat assists condemning authorities and private owners in acquisition negotiations, eminent domain actions, and the various land rights matters and disputes that go along with the construction of infrastructure. He has particular expertise representing public utilities, electric cooperatives, and pipeline companies in acquiring the necessary permits and land rights for the timely construction of plant sites and transmission corridors for electric transmission lines and pipelines in and through urban, rural, and tribal lands throughout the upper Midwest. In this practice, he has represented condemning authorities in state and federal courts on dozens of projects in timely acquiring hundreds of miles worth of land rights, handling scores of valuation disputes to conclusion, including through jury trials.
