Patrick is a distinguished member of the firm and is currently Managing Shareholder, Chair of the M&A Practice Group and Member of the firm’s Board of Directors.
His practice focuses primarily on corporate transactions and business matters, with significant work in the following areas:
- Complex corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions of businesses
- Commercial loan transactions
- Preparation and negotiation of complex corporate and business agreements, including limited liability company agreements, shareholder agreements, joint venture agreements, as well as supply and service agreements and licensing and distribution agreements
- Outside general counsel for middle-market privately held businesses.
Representative Transactions
Having served as as lead counsel on complex transactions ranging from lower middle market (sub $10M) to upper middle market (great than $300M), Patrick has extensive knowledge of the industry and representative transactions that include:
- to a large, multi-state operator of over 30 big box, farm & ranch retail stores in a merger with another West Coast operator of farm & ranch retail stores to form the largest, single operator of farm & ranch retail stores in the Western U.S.
- to a large, multi-state Mid-West General Construction firm in a sale to a top-10 National General Construction firm
- to a large Northwest HVAC company in a sale to a large, national HVAC platform company
- to a local coffee company in the divestiture of its wholesale coffee business to a large, publicly held coffee company to one of the largest privately-held construction companies in the Northwest in connection with a sale to a major national and international construction firm
- to the seller in the sale of a prominent West Coast flooring company to a platform company controlled by a large Midwest private equity group
- to a premium toy company in a share exchange transaction with a major, publicly held New York toy company
- to a national marine and bridge construction company in an ESOP sale to an employee stock ownership plan group for one of Washington’s largest credit unions in the spinoff of a document preparation software platform to a strategic buyer
- to a large, local coffee company in the bankruptcy sale of all of its assets including over 75 company-owned and licensed retail coffee shops
- to an electronics technology company owned by a major West Coast private equity firm in an asset sale to a large Mid-west private equity firm
- to an industry leading electronics company in the spin-off of division of its business to a Fortune 500 company
