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Patrick is a former federal prosecutor with a proven track record of navigating clients through their most sensitive and challenging matters. Patrick represents entities and individuals in criminal and regulatory enforcement matters and complex civil litigation; he leads company and Board-driven internal investigations; and he advises clients on issues ranging from corruption and fraud to cybersecurity and data privacy. He has been ranked by Chambers and was named 40 Under 40 for 2020 by Crain’s Chicago Business.
Patrick has the perspective of an accomplished trial lawyer—he has won each of his dozen trials in federal court. He draws on that experience and his federal investigative experience to lead investigations for his clients across the energy, healthcare, life sciences, and financial services industries. He has handled complex civil and criminal enforcement matters with the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, as well as state attorneys general. These matters have involved the False Claims Act, accounting and financial fraud, cybersecurity and data privacy, corruption, antitrust and anti-competitive behavior, racketeering, as well as securities fraud.
Before joining King & Spalding, Patrick served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois. He was Deputy Chief of General Crimes, responsible for training and supervising new Assistant U.S. Attorneys on federal criminal procedure, grand jury practice, investigative techniques, and trials. Patrick led hundreds of grand jury investigations, prosecuted high-profile criminal cases through to trial, and briefed and argued appeals before the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Patrick’s notable cases as a federal prosecutor include the trial and conviction of the president and CEO of Sentinel Capital Management who bankrupted the company in the largest fraud by dollar amount in Chicago’s history, the cutting-edge prosecution and conviction of two individuals engaged in computer intrusion and theft of trade secrets from a Chicago-based hedge fund, as well as leading the investigation, prosecution and four-month long trial of defendants who led a decade-long racketeering enterprise.
Patrick serves as an adjunct professor at Northwestern University School of Law, where he teaches a seminar on Chicago’s gun violence epidemic.
Earlier in his career, Patrick clerked for the Honorable Richard C. Wesley of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York.
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