Marc Coda Email & Phone Number

Pittsburgh, PA, US

United States

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Canonsburg, Pennsylvania

• Provide advice and support to Land Agents related to commercial lease and transactional exchange/purchase agreement requirements to mitigate risk and ensure compliance with terms.
• Collaborate with outside counsel to provide practical business solutions to high level contractual risk issues and situations subject to potential litigation.
• Assist in the coordination and performance of due diligence for both large and small scale land acquisitions and divestitures.
• Lead a team of five analysts and two attorneys, managing workflow and providing guidance on a range of legal, regulatory and contractual compliance issues while ensuring all necessary timelines are met.
• Responsible for final approval of title utilized in operations, confirming that contractual and other risks are appropriately mitigated.
• Draft internal CNX forms, standards and policies for department-wide use in order to reduce risk, mitigate cost and streamline internal legal review processes.

Canonsburg, PA

• Interpret deed, estate and oil and gas lease provisions to cure title defects and verify Consol ownership.
• Draft lease amendments, various forms of affidavits, subordination and attornment agreements, deeds and other documents related to real property to cure title defects.
• Directly interact with outside counsel to address issues and omissions in oil, gas and surface title opinions to reflect proper vestment and control and solve pressing title issues.
• Drafted internal broker heirship standards for use company-wide in order to improve and streamline Consol’s heirship leasing procedures.

Pittsburgh, PA

• Reviewed legal title opinions, deeds, easements and other conveyances in order to address title mapping issues and draft Curative Mapping Reports for oil, gas and coal drilling clients.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Provide support to large scale litigation projects in the form of privilege and relevancy review for a wide array of commercial clients

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Provided legal counsel to municipal, school district, institutional and corporate clients on financial, employment, contract, tax and related matters.
• Drafted and reviewed non-disclosure agreements, financial audit contracts, service contracts, easement and right-of-way agreements, ordinances and board resolutions for universities, municipal corporations and school.
• Prepared opinion letters and memoranda relating to real estate tax issues, land development, tax-increment financing agreements and Marcellus shale legislation, particularly drilling impact fees, zoning and general.
• Analyzed, compiled and presented comparable sales data on behalf of municipal clients challenging residential tax assessments in Allegheny County

New Castle, PA

• Prepared and researched ordinances and memoranda relating to legal issues facing several Northwestern Pennsylvania municipalities
• Drafted interstate municipal law enforcement cooperation agreement between municipalities in Ohio and Pennsylvania

• Drafted legal reports on areas of law such as trademark and patent protection, project finance agreement structures, international commercial arbitration and World Trade Organization SPS and TRIPS compliance issues
• Conducted review of Federal import/export requirements as pertaining to transitional countries, reviewing such regulations in the rulemaking stage within the Federal Register and within United States Statutes and Code.
• Served as coach and advisor to 2010 University of Bahrain Willem C. Vis Commercial Arbitration Moot Court team, traveling with the team to Dubai, UAE to conduct workshops and practice arbitration rounds.

Washington D.C.

• Authored service connection and disability rating decisions relating to diseases, disabilities, and psychiatric disorders
• Analyzed Veterans claims files, medical records, and hearing transcripts to decide both substantive and procedural issuesof entitlement to VA benefits in accordance with VA laws and regulations

Doctor Of Law (J.D.)

Activities and Societies: Willem C. Vis Commercial Arbitration Moot, Order of the Barristers, Certificate in International and Comparative.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Political Science

Activities and Societies: American University Washington Semester, Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Intern