Personal Experience

Patrick E. Sovereign is an attorney of Beus Gilbert McGroder, a premier boutique law firm concentrating on High Stakes Litigation, Real Estate and Zoning Law, and Plaintiffs Catastrophic Injury & Wrongful Death.  Mr. Sovereign is a member of the firm’s Zoning & Real Estate practice. Mr. Sovereign’s practice is focused on real estate and business transactions.  His broad-based transactional practice involves the acquisition and disposition of commercial real estate including negotiating and drafting purchase agreements, conducting appropriate due diligence, negotiating and drafting commercial leases, and negotiating and drafting partnership and limited liability company agreements, real estate based lending transactions. He currently manages a large real estate portfolio with properties in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Utah and Mexico.  The portfolio is comprised of various product types ranging from large vacant parcels, telecommunications sites, improved commercial property, large master planned residential properties, and properties with mineable natural resources.

Representative Matters

• Management of a large real estate portfolio with properties located in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, and Mexico
• Negotiates and drafts purchase agreements, commercial leases, partnership, and limited liability company agreements for clients
• Conducts due diligence prior to acquisition of real estate on behalf of clients

Memberships & Activities

• American Bar Association
• Arizona State Bar Association
• Maricopa County Bar Association
• J. Reuben Clark Law Society, Phoenix Chapter

Community & Philanthropy

• Board Member (Current President) of the Circle G at Silver Creek Homeowners Association (2008 – Present)
• President and Director, East Valley Elite Lacrosse Club, Arizona, 2008 -2010
• President of Student Chapter, J. Reuben Clark Law Society, San Diego, 1998-1999
• Missionary, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 1987-1989

Publications

• United States v. Dickerson, Will It Be The Proverbial Straw That Breaks Miranda’s Back, 36 Cal. W.L. Rev. 195 (1999)