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, publicly held companies, colleges and universities on a variety of matters, including:

• Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and divestitures
• Negotiation of complex commercial agreements
• 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

• Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, Certificate, Quarles & Brady Leadership Program (2025)

• 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)

• Brigham Young University (B.S., 2008)
  • Business Management

• "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"
• Article by Brandon Krajewski and Patrick Taylor for SupplyChainBrain Discusses Remedies for Breach of Contract
• Brandon Krajewski, Patrick Taylor and Elizabeth Lacey Author Article for Supply & Demand Chain Executive About Mitigating Damages from Breached Contracts in Supply Chain
• Brandon Krajewski, Patrick Taylor and Michael Chargo Write Article for Industry Today About Handling Challenging Suppliers Under UCC
• Supply Chain Survival Series: Acceptance, Rejection, Revocation of Acceptance, and Right to Cure (Article #11)
• 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: Mitigation (Article #13)
• Supply Chain Survival Series: Overview of the UCC's Statute of Limitations for Breach of Contract Claims (Article #15)
• Supply Chain Survival Series: Remedies for Breach of Contract (Article #14)
• Supply Chain Survival Series: Risk of Loss and Transfer of Title (Article #16)
• Supply Chain Survival Series: Shipping Terms Under the UCC and Incoterms (Article #17)
• Supply Chain Survival Series: What Contract Terms Apply? (Article #3)
• Supply Chain Survival Series: What is Breach of Contract (Article #12)
• 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