Ernest (Pat) Shriver

Ernest (Pat) Shriver is a shareholder at Fafinski Mark & Johnson, P.A. in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Pat is a corporate, transactional, and intellectual property attorney who focuses on small to medium-sized privately held businesses. His practice includes general corporate and partnership matters, commercial contracts, shareholder and partner relations, business combinations, financing, and intellectual property issues. He also advises regulated and unregulated lenders on commercial lending transactions.

Pat earned a J.D., cum laude, from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1997. He received a B.A., summa cum laude, from Saint John’s University in 1994 and completed the Russian basic course at the Defense Language Institute. His education supports a practice built on careful analysis, practical judgment, and clear guidance for business owners, lenders, and companies managing complex legal decisions.

Pat advises clients on entity selection, contract drafting and review, shareholder agreements, partnership agreements, buy-sell agreements, securities matters, corporate financing, mergers, asset purchases, stock purchases, and other business combinations. His intellectual property work includes trademark and copyright registration, compliance, licensing, dispute resolution, pre-dispute counseling, Internet law, domain name issues, and trade secret matters. He also works with independent patent attorneys when clients have patent-related needs.

Ernest (Pat) Shriver has been named a Minnesota Rising Star and has been consistently recognized as a Super Lawyer since 2009. He has also received an AV Peer Review Rating through Martindale-Hubbell. Pat has served as past chair of the Minnesota State Bar Association Business Law Section and as an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota Law School, reflecting his long commitment to business law and practical client service.

Law Office Affiliations

• Shareholder, Fafinski Mark & Johnson, P.A.
• Past Chairman, Minnesota State Bar Association, Business Law Section
• Past Member, International Trademark Association

Licensed State

• Minnesota

Education

• University of Minnesota Law School
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• Saint John’s University, Collegeville
  Bachelor of Arts (BA)

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