Patrick R. Northam

Industries

• Energy
  • Renewables
  • Utilities
• Manufacturing
  • Industrials

Practices

• Corporate Law
  • Closely Held Business Transactions
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Outside General Counsel Services
  • Securities & Corporate Governance

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 co-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.