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Patrick R. Northam
Patrick is a member of the Corporate and Commercial Practice Group, and is the Energy and Natural Resources Team Co-Chair. He represents numerous public and privately-owned industrial, commercial and service businesses in connection with mergers, divestitures, acquisitions, partnerships and joint ventures, intellectual property licenses, recourse and non-recourse financings, executive employment and compensation plans, and general corporate and commercial matters, including in the areas of fossil fuel and renewable energy services, natural gas, coal, steel tank fabrication, sporting goods, distilled spirits, telecommunications, paints and coatings, engineering and public works, aluminum smelting, newspapers, employee benefit and actuarial consulting, real estate brokerage, franchised restaurants and commercial graphics.
Patrick is also principal legal advisor to national and regional energy services companies with responsibility for numerous domestic and international mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, power project developments, strategic alliances and other corporate and transactional matters. Among the significant transactions for which he has been lead counsel is an approximate $1 billion hostile takeover of a bankrupt rural cooperative in one of the largest and most complicated bankruptcies in U.S. history.
Education
B.A., Indiana University, 1984
J.D., University of Louisville, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, 1987
Harvard Law School - Program of Instruction for Lawyers, 1991 (Corporate Tax, Securities Regulation, Corporate Law and Business Planning)
Admitted to Practice
Kentucky, 1987
Honors and Awards
Selected to Kentucky Super Lawyers, 2007
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," for 2006
The Best Lawyers in America, 2007 and 2008 (Corporate Law; Mergers & Acquisitions)
Selected by CHAMBERS & PARTNERS as one of America's Leading Business Lawyers, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008, including among the top Kentucky lawyers in three separate disciplines: Corporate/Mergers & Acquisitions, Utilities Law and Natural Resources Law
Phi Beta Kappa
Louis Dembitz Brandeis Scholar
Executive Editor, Journal of Family Law, 1986-87
Pi Sigma Alpha National Political Science Honor Society
Pleiades Honorary, Alpha Chapter, Indiana University
Civic and Charitable Involvement
Leadership Kentucky Class of 2004
Board of Directors, YMCA of Southern Indiana.
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