Pat Devine is a partner in the Health Care Section at Williams Mullen. He concentrates his practice in the areas of health care, antitrust, corporate and business, securities and venture capital law. Pat regularly assists health care providers with business and regulatory issues in the health care industry, including business structures, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, certificate of public need, tax, antitrust, reimbursement, compliance, false claims act, privacy, disciplinary and medical staff, credentialing, managed care, buy-sell and employment agreements and legislative matters. He also assists clients with securities and venture capital financing.

Pat Devine is a partner in the Health Care Section at Williams Mullen. He concentrates his practice in the areas of health care, antitrust, corporate and business, securities and venture capital law. Pat regularly assists health care providers with business and regulatory issues in the health care industry, including business structures, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, certificate of public need, tax, antitrust, reimbursement, compliance, false claims act, privacy, disciplinary and medical staff, credentialing, managed care, buy-sell and employment agreements and legislative matters. He also assists clients with securities and venture capital financing.

Pat is active in a variety of legal organizations, often serving in leadership positions. He has served as chairman of the Health Law Sections of both the Virginia Bar Association and the Virginia State Bar. He is a Fellow of the Virginia Law Foundation and a member of the Health, Tax, Corporate and Municipal Sections of the American and Virginia Bar Associations, as well as the Virginia State Bar. He was the first recipient of the Virginia Bar Association’s Legislative Advocacy Award in 2011, has served as chairman of the Health Section Council’s Legislative Committee since 2001 and has organized and moderated a VBA sponsored CLE program, the “Annual Legislative Update and Extravaganza,” for more than 20 years.

Pat is also very active in a wide variety of community and civic organizations. He is a member of the board of directors of the Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce, Virginia Beach Division, and served as the American Heart Association’s 2006 South Hampton Roads Gala Chairman. He serves as general counsel for the Lions Medical Eye Bank, the Great Neck Baseball League and the Virginia Business Coalition of Health. Pat is a former member of the Old Dominion University College of Health Sciences Advisory Council and an honorary director of Children’s Care Fund.

Pat is listed in The Best Lawyers in America© for Corporate Law and for Health Care Law (2001-present) and was named the Best Lawyers’® Norfolk Health Care Lawyer of the Year in the 2011, 2016, 2019 and 2021 editions. He is included in Virginia Business magazine’s “Legal Elite” (2003-present) and was named the “Top Health Law Attorney in Virginia” by the publication in 2003. He also is recognized in Virginia Super Lawyers magazine for Health Care Law (2006-present) and has been listed among the Top Lawyers in Coastal Virginia by CoVa Biz Magazine (2017-present). Pat was the first recipient of the Norfolk & Portsmouth Bar Association’s Judge Walter E. Hoffman Community Service Award. Martindale-Hubbell has rated Pat an AV attorney, its highest rating available, and, in 2017, he was inducted as a Fellow of the Virginia Law Foundation.

Pat earned a law degree from the University of Richmond Law School, a Master of Laws and Taxation from the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William & Mary and his Bachelor of Arts degree from Hampden-Sydney College. In addition, Pat is a Norfolk Academy graduate.