Practice Expertise

  • Business Law
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
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Areas of Practice

  • Business Law
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Automotive Industry
  • General Corporate and Outside General ...
  • Higher Education
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Private Equity
  • Research Institutions & Higher Education
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WSG Practice Industries

WSG Leadership

  • Automotive Group - Member
  • Emerging Leaders Group - Member
  • Mergers & Acquisitions Group - Member
  • Private Client Group - Member
  • Private Equity Group - Member
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Profile

Tailored solutions to business law challenges

Patrick Taylor helps clients achieve the best possible outcomes in every transaction. He primarily represents privately held businesses, private equity firms, middle market companies and publicly held companies on a variety of matters, including:

  • Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and divestitures
  • Counseling private equity firms
  • Complex commercial agreements
  • Contract negotiations and dispute resolution
  • Counseling privately held businesses and serving as outside general counsel
  • Serving as outside general counsel for universities and technical colleges
  • Entity formation and governance
  • Family-owned business generational transfers

Patrick is committed to finding practical solutions that are tailored to address the specific legal and business issues each client faces.

Bar Admissions

  • Wisconsin

Education

  • Brigham Young University (B.S., 2008)
    • Business Management
  • William & Mary Law School (J.D., 2013)
    • William & Mary Business Law Review, executive editor
  • William & Mary Raymond A. Mason School of Business (M.B.A., 2013)

Areas of Practice

  • Business Law
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Automotive Industry
  • General Corporate and Outside General Counsel Services
  • Higher Education
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Private Equity
  • Research Institutions & Higher Education

Professional Career



Articles

  • "A Refresher Course on Commercial Contract Drafting"
  • "Contract Drafting - Purchasing"
  • "Contract Drafting - Sales"
  • "Contracts in M&A Due Diligence"
  • "The Basics of Commercial Contract Drafting"
  • "The Basics of Mergers and Acquisitions"
  • Supply Chain Survival Series: Additional Statutory Default Terms (Article #6)
  • Supply Chain Survival Series: Anticipatory Repudiation and Demand for Adequate Assurances (Article #8)
  • Supply Chain Survival Series: Battle of The Forms (Article #4)
  • Supply Chain Survival Series: Contract Modification (Article #7)
  • Supply Chain Survival Series: Force Majeure (Article #9)
  • Supply Chain Survival Series: Impracticability, Impossibility and Frustration of Purpose (Article #10)
  • Supply Chain Survival Series: Introduction (Article #1)
  • Supply Chain Survival Series: Is There a Contract? (Article #2)
  • Supply Chain Survival Series: Key Statutory Default Terms (Article #5)
  • Supply Chain Survival Series: What Contract Terms Apply? (Article #3)
  • Supply Chain Survival Series: What is Breach of Contract (Article #12)
  • Survival Series: Acceptance, Rejection, Revocation of Acceptance, and Right to Cure (Article #11)
  • Wisconsin Department of Health Services Releases Emergency Order 28
  • Wisconsin's Automatic Renewal Law
  • “Paved with Good Intentions: Letters of Intent in M&A Transactions”

Seminar

  • Business Law Training: Avoiding (and Winning) Pricing Disputes with Customers and Suppliers in an Inflationary Environment

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