Skip to Main Content.

Biography

Patrick serves as lead corporate, transactional and business counsel advising numerous industrial, commercial and service businesses, including in connection with merger, divestiture, acquisition, partnership and joint venture transactions, company formations and liquidations, company leadership and governance, project and infrastructure construction and development transactions, intellectual property development and licensing transactions, product and service development, sales and distribution programs, and supply chain and logistics transactions. He also leads the firm’s Energy Industry Team and has over 30 years of experience serving energy clients in a wide variety of transactional matters.

He has provided counseling to clients in the following industries: utilities and power generation (including fossil fuel and renewable energy); natural gas production, transportation and distribution; chemicals manufacturing; data analytics; food services; metals production and fabrication; coal mining and marketing; automotive production and sales; steel tank fabrication; medical products and devices; sporting goods; distilled spirits; telecommunications; paints and coatings; print media; real estate brokerage; and franchised restaurants.

Patrick is also a principal legal advisor to national and regional energy services companies with responsibility for numerous mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, power project developments, intellectual property licensing and development transactions, strategic alliances and other corporation and transactional matters.

He previously served for six years as senior in-house counsel to a large national diversified energy services company and its regional electric and gas utility subsidiary.

Other Info About Patrick

Education

Law School

University of Louisville, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, J.D.
Louis Dembitz Brandeis Scholar

Harvard Law School – Program of Instruction for Lawyers
(Corporate Tax, Securities Regulation, Corporate Law and Business Planning)

Undergraduate School

Indiana University – Bloomington, B.A.
Phi Beta Kappa
Pleiades Honorary, Alpha Chapter

Bar Memberships

Patrick is licensed to practice in the following state(s):

Kentucky

Recognition

Local & National Recognition

AV Rated by Martindale-Hubbell®

Selected as The Best Lawyers in America® “Lawyer of the Year,”: Corporate Law, 2013; Mergers and Acquisitions Law, 2023

Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America®, Corporate Law, 2007-2025; Mergers and Acquisitions Law, 2007-2025; Energy Law, 2011-2025; Corporate Compliance, 2025

Selected for inclusion in Chambers USA, Corporate/M&A, 2010-2023; Environment, Natural Resources and Utilities: Natural Resources, 2010-2024; Environment, Natural Resources and Utilities: Utilities, 2010-2024

Selected for inclusion in Kentucky Super Lawyers®, 2007-2012; 2022-2024

Cambridge Who’s Who Among Executives, Professionals and Entrepreneurs, 2008

Awarded highest ranking (5 Dragons) by Lawdragon Magazine, a national lawyer ranking service

Selected by Lawdragon Magazine from among all U.S. Lawyers as one of its “500 New Stars, New Worlds,” 2006

Professional Affiliations

Professional Affiliations & Memberships

Energy & Mineral Law Foundation, Board of Trustees

Civic Activities

Civic & Charitable Organizations

Leadership Kentucky, Class of 2004