Patrick Berry

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Background

Corporate attorney who advises private equity sponsors, companies, and family offices on complex, high-stakes transactions. Deep understanding of business realities and a focus on helping clients achieve strategic objectives without losing sight of practical considerations.

Patrick regularly represents clients in buy-side and sell-side mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, control and minority investments, equity financings, add-on and follow-on acquisitions, joint ventures, and corporate restructurings. He is known for anticipating pressure points in transactions and for providing commercially focused counsel in fast-moving and high-stakes situations, including hostile transactions. His industry experience includes technology, healthcare, entertainment, aerospace, consumer products, manufacturing, professional services, and hospitality, among others.

In addition to his transactional work, Patrick frequently serves as outside corporate counsel, advising on governance, ownership matters, and complex or sensitive situations, including distressed asset sales, partnership disputes, and business separations.

Prior to returning to private practice, Patrick was at Partners Group, one of the world’s largest publicly listed private equity firms, where he worked on the formation and structuring of bespoke investment vehicles for institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds, and family offices. That experience informs his sponsor-side perspective and enhances his ability to align legal execution with investor and deal-level priorities.

Practices:

Representative Matters

  • Represent Apollo Global Management, an alternative asset management firm based in New York, in connection with numerous investments on behalf of its private equity and hybrid value funds.
  • Represented Vail Resorts in its acquisition of Seven Springs Mountain Resort and Hidden Valley Resort, as well as the operations of the Laurel Mountain Ski Area.
  • Represent Rallyday Partners, a Denver-based private equity firm, in numerous platform acquisitions, equity financings, and portfolio company add-ons.
  • Represent Bow River Capital, a Denver-based private equity firm with more than $5 billion of assets under management, in connection with its acquisitions, joint ventures and formations of multiple funds as well as corporate and governance matters.
  • Represented Vegas.com, the leading entertainment and hospitality marketplace for consumers exploring Las Vegas, in its sale to Vivid Seats, a publicly traded online ticket marketplace, in a cash and stock transaction.
  • Represented Evermore Partners, a Denver-based commercial real estate investment firm, in the formation of its investment fund and investment vehicles.

Credentials

Education

  • J.D., 2014, University of Wisconsin Law School, summa cum laude
  • B.A., 2010, University of Colorado at Boulder

Admissions

  • Colorado
  • Wisconsin

Community Involvement

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Board of Trustees, Warren Village

Recognition

AWARDS

MA Advisor Emerging Leaders Award, 2025

Daniel H. Grady Award, University of Wisconsin Law School

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