Jordan C. Maddy

Jordan Maddy is an associate attorney in the firm’s Morgantown, West Virginia office. A former summer clerk during his first two years of legal study, Jordan has experience collaborating and working with Bowles Rice attorneys from multiple practice groups and different offices on a wide variety of projects. He has experience in a wide variety of transactional matters, including public and private mergers and acquisitions and commercial finance, as well as in general regulatory matters, publicly and privately held securities, consumer finance litigation, and appeals to the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Jordan earned his law degree from the West Virginia University College of Law, where he served as an Executive Research Editor and Associate Editor for the West Virginia Law Review and was awarded Best Student Note of the journal’s 121st volume. For the 122nd volume, his Law Review peers named him Executive Board Editor of the Year. He earned his bachelor’s degree in psychology from James Madison University.

Following law school, Jordan served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Stephanie D. Thacker of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He is admitted to practice in West Virginia.

• Assisted with a merger of equals transaction involving a West Virginia bank holding company and its West Virginia subsidiary bank, with an approximate transaction value of $370 million.
• Assisted with the completion of acquisition or divestiture transactions in the following lines of business:
  • Automotive dealerships;
  • Medical facilities, including hospitals;
  • Physician practices; and
  • Dental practices.

• Assisted with drafting winning appellate brief in Collingwood Appalachian Minerals, III, LLC v. Erlewine, 889 S.E.2d 697, 2023 WL 4013373 (W. Va. June 15, 2023) (holding caselaw voiding deeds that result from duplicate assessments is inapplicable where each of the underlying surface and mineral assessments are in fact delinquent; no due process concern where a fellow tax-sale purchaser, rather than a delinquent landowner, seeks to set aside tax-sale deed).

• Order of the Coif, West Virginia University College of Law
• Recipient of CALI Awards (recognition for achieving the highest grade in a particular subject) at West Virginia University College of Law:
  • Appellate Advocacy
  • Business Organizations
  • Criminal Procedure
  • Energy Regulation
  • Legal Research and Writing 1 & 2