Patrick D. Huard
Patrick Huard is Global Co-Chair of the firm's Private Equity Investments + Buyouts Practice and focuses his practice on private equity M&A transactions.
Patrick has significant experience representing private equity funds and their portfolio companies in a broad range of corporate matters, including public and private acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, venture and growth equity investments, and divestitures. Clients rely on him for both his sophisticated legal counseling as well as his sharp business acumen.
Patrick advises private equity sponsors in all aspects of their investment activity across a wide variety of industry sectors, including software and technology, business services, consumer and retail, professional and industrial services, and ESG/impact investing. Patrick is also a member of our global Sustainability + Corporate Responsibility steering committee.
Patrick is ranked for California Private Equity: Buyouts by Chambers USA 2025, as a Leading Partner for Private Equity Buyouts by Legal 500 US (2021-2025), and among Top 10 Mid Cap M&A Lawyers in North America by MergerLinks (2021-2023). Our private equity practice was also recognized as a Law360 Practice Group of the Year 2021.
Patrick graduated, magna cum laude, from the Georgetown University Law Center, where he was elected into the Order of the Coif and served as the Notes and Articles Editor of the Journal of Law and Policy in International Business.
Experience
Accela's Sale to Berkshire Partners
Accela in its sale to Berkshire Partners
Alpine Investors' Multiple Acquisitions
Alpine Investors in multiple acquisitions, including in connection with AlpineX, Antelope, Apex Services Partners, Aspen Standard Wealth, Evergreen Services Group, Orion Services Group, Predictis Data, TEAM Services Group, Trilon Group, Vertex Service Partners, and Wilson Language Learning platforms.
Altamont Capital Partners' Multiple Acquisitions
Altamont Capital Partners and its portfolio companies Mervin Manufacturing, Service Minds, and Specialized Packaging Group in multiple acquisitions
Crescent Cove Advisors' Investment in Kingsley Gate Partners
Crescent Cove Advisors in its investment in Kingsley Gate Partners
Coral Tree Partners’ Investment in KERV.ai
Coral Tree Partners in its investment in KERV.ai
DigiCert's Sale to Clearlake Capital and TA Associates
DigiCert's management team in the sale of the company to Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. and TA Associates.
GI Partners and Doxim's Multiple Acquisitions
GI Partners and its portfolio company Doxim in multiple acquisitions.
Gryphon Investors' Acquisition of RegEd
Gryphon Investors in its acquisition of RegEd
Hg Capital’s Multiple Transactions
Hg Capital in multiple transactions, including the sale of GTreasury to Ripple, CINC Systems’ acquisition of ONR Applications, and AuditBoard’s acquisition of FairNow
Internet-Journals, Inc.'s Sale to Elsevier
Internet-Journals, Inc. (d/b/a Berkeley Electronic Press or bepress) in its sale to Elsevier
Main Post Partners' Multiple Transactions
Main Post Partners in multiple transactions, including Chuze Fitness, Dr. Dennis Gross, Duke Cannon, Flynn Restaurant Group, The Happy Planner, Fortis Solutions Group, KUIU, Mishimoto, Nulo Pet Food and SUGARED + BRONZED
Palladium Equity Partners' Multiple Acquisitions
Palladium Equity Partners in its acquisition of Source Logistics and in its portfolio company Trachte's acquisition of Parkliners.
Presidio Investors' Acquisition of Golden Pear Funding
Presidio Investors in its acquisition of Golden Pear Funding
Rubicon Technology Partners’ Multiple Transactions
Rubicon Technology Partners in multiple transactions, including acquisitions of EverTrue and ThankView, creation of Aline (by acquiring Enquire Solutions, Glennis Solutions, Sherpa, Grove Menus, and Roobrik), and majority investments in Work Truck Solutions, CollegeNET, and Nuqleous
San Francisco Equity Partners' Multiple Acquisitions
San Francisco Equity Partners in multiple acquisitions, including DGS Retail, Diversified Manufacturing Corporation, jane iredale, and S&V Labs.
Shamrock Capital’s Acquisition of Penta Group
Shamrock Capital in its acquisition of Penta Group
SoftBank's Acquisition and Sale of Boston Dynamics
SoftBank in its acquisition and subsequent sale of Boston Dynamics
Unilever's Acquisition of Dollar Shave Club
Unilever in its acquisition of Dollar Shave Club
Vector Capital's Acquisition of Patron Technology
Vector Capital in its acquisition of Patron Technology
Virgo Investment Group's Investment and Asset Sale
Virgo Investment Group in its investment in 80 Acre Farms and its sale of its Helios I portfolio of solar assets
Vision Ridge Partners' Investment in Guzman Energy Group
Vision Ridge Partners in connection with its investment in Guzman Energy Group
Windjammer Capital and Flinn Scientific's Acquisition of WhiteBox Learning
Windjammer Capital and its portfolio company Flinn Scientific in its acquisition of WhiteBox Learning
Rankings
Ranked for Private Equity: Buyouts - California
Chambers USA 2025
Leading Partner for M&A / Corporate and Commercial: Private Equity Buyouts
Ranked practice: M&A / Corporate and Commercial: Private Equity Buyouts
Ranked for Corporate/M&A – Northern California
Ranked in the “Elite” Category of Corporate/M&A Nationwide
Private Equity Practice Group of the Year
Top 10 Mid Cap M&A Lawyer in North America