Pat works with public utilities, banks, closely held businesses, and municipalities on utility regulation, commercial lending, and business law matters. He helps clients achieve positive regulatory outcomes before both state and federal regulatory bodies.
Pat also brings experience in financial transactions, assisting banking clients with all aspects of commercial lending transactions and providing business law advice and counsel to clients of all sizes, focusing on business formation, financing, sales and acquisitions, and structural issues. Additionally, he works with small and medium telecommunications companies and local units of government on state and federal regulatory issues.
Pat draws on his considerable private sector experience in representing his clients. He clerked in the office of general counsel with a major U.S. electricity and natural gas company, focusing primarily on regulatory and data privacy matters. He also previously worked as a consultant in the energy and environment group of a large global consulting firm.
Pat earned his B.A., magna cum laude, from Middlebury College, and his J.D., summa cum laude, from the University of St. Thomas School of Law, where he was an editor for the University of St. Thomas Law Journal.