Patrick C. Closson
Director
Patrick is a business lawyer who focuses on mergers and acquisitions, entity formation, private security offerings, and general corporate governance and contract matters. Patrick represents clients in the manufacturing, retail, defense, high technology, financial services, energy and wholesale food industries. Patrick has experience representing clients in a broad range of transactions, including stock and asset acquisitions and sales, mergers, private security offerings and leveraged employee stock ownership transactions.
Department
Corporate
Areas of Practice
- General Corporate Governance
- Mergers and Acquisition
- Contract Drafting and Review
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan Transactions
- Entity Formation
- Private Securities Offerings
- Executive Compensation
Representative Clients & Work
Clients
- Poultry Products Company of New England, Inc.
- Wilcox Industries Corp.
- DryTek Flooring Solutions, LLC
- Eco-Mills, LLC
Work
- Represented the seller of a privately held defense industry manufacturer in connection with the sale of substantially all of its assets
- Represented an employee stock ownership plan and trust in connection with the acquisition of stock of a privately held company through a leveraged acquisition
- Represented a wholesale food distributor in connection with the refinancing of all of its outstanding financing facilities
- Represented the Buyer of a majority of the stock of a regional franchisor
- Represented a retailer of environmentally friendly fertilizer in connection with a private equity offering
Admissions
New Hampshire
Professional & Association Memberships
New Hampshire Bar Association; American Bar Association; New Hampshire Bar Association, Business Law Section; American Bar Association Business Law Section
Recognition
- Boston College Alumni Award 2005
Community Involvement
City Year New Hampshire Site Board of Directors (past Vice Chair); Child and Family Services, Seacoast Board of Directors (past Chair); Boston College Law School Alumni Council; New Hampshire Bar Association Professionalism Committee; New Hampshire Bar Association Leadership Conference Steering Committee; New Hampshire Bar Association Communications Task Force; Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce Business Development Committee; Leadership Seacoast (participant 2008)
Career
- Boston College Law School, 1998
- University of New Hampshire, Summa Cum Laude, 1995
Recent Publications and Lectures
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