Patrick Tighe is a trial attorney and member of the firm’s Litigation, Investigations, and Trials Practice Group. He assists clients in resolving complex legal disputes, bet-the-company litigation, and class actions through trial, arbitration, and appeal. Patrick maintains and handles a variety of legal matters, including:
- Business Formation, Management, and Dissolution Disputes. Patrick handles a range of disputes concerning the formation, management, and dissolution of businesses, including partnership formation and management disputes; disputes regarding the acquisition or merger of companies (including sales and acquisition agreements and membership interest purchase agreements); interpretation of operating agreements for different types of businesses (including LLCs); claims for breach of fiduciary duties, fraud, and other business torts; requests for receiverships; business valuation, buyouts, and accountings; derivative and direct legal actions concerning different businesses; claims concerning wrongful solicitation, noncompetition, tortious interference with business relations, or misappropriation of trade secrets or proprietary information; and “business divorce” cases where owners wish to exist or withdraw from different business arrangements with other co-owners.
- Real Estate and Construction Litigation. Patrick oversees all types of legal disputes concerning real property, including disputes about purchase and sales agreements for commercial properties; landlord-tenant issues; lockouts and evictions; condemnation and eminent domain; partition actions; disputes regarding easements and use agreements; quiet title; commercial and residential construction disputes; disputes with homeowners’ association (HOAs); and provisional remedies such as writ of replevin.
- Constitutional & Civil Rights Litigation. Patrick litigates a variety of constitutional and civil rights claims, including claims for malicious prosecution, abuse of process, retaliation, and under Section 1983 (including under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments).
- Piercing the Corporate Veil / Judgment Enforcement. Patrick handles various litigation efforts to collect on judgments and to overcome debtors’ attempts to evade legal liability, including through derivative theories of liability such alter-ego liability, piercing the corporate veil, successor-in-interest, fraudulent transfers (including under the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act), garnishments, attachments, debtor examinations, judgment domestication and enforcement, and international discovery through 28 U.S.C. 1782.
Patrick also co-chairs SNELLGBTQ, the firm’s affinity group for members and allies of the LGBTQ community.
Within the community, Patrick serves as the Vice Chancellor for the Episcopal Diocese of Arizona and as Chancellor for Trinity Episcopal Church. In these capacities, he provides pro bono legal advice and services to the Episcopal Church on a range of matters. He serves on the board of Keys to Change — a leading nonprofit focused on addressing and solving homelessness in Maricopa County — and the multicultural advisory board for One Community — a local nonprofit advocating for and advancing equality for LGBTQ Arizonans.
Prior to joining Snell & Wilmer, Patrick clerked for Chief Justice Scott Bales of the Arizona Supreme Court and the Honorable David G. Campbell of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona.
In his spare time, Patrick enjoys traveling, cooking with, and hosting dinner parties with his husband, Josh, and going on walks and hikes with their dog, Luka.
