Patrick J. Berry

Pat has extensive experience in the merger and acquisition area representing buyers, sellers and investors in transactions involving both privately and publicly held companies.

In addition to his merger and acquisition practice, Pat represents entrepreneurs and companies in a wide variety of general corporate matters, including commercial contract negotiation, structuring business organizations, business succession planning and ESOP transactions. Pat also assists privately held companies with structuring and consummating venture capital transactions and securities offerings.

• Representation of the executive team in a management buy-out of the U.S. division of a web offset, digital and sheet fed printing solution provider.
• Representation of a 100 percent ESOP owned trade show marketing company in a sale to a private equity fund.
• Representation of a leading designer and manufacturer of engineered decorative laminates, thermoplastic sheet and non-textile flooring for the worldwide transportation industry in a sale to a private equity fund.
• Representation of a company in the acquisition of a national parts distributor with over 25,000 products and with customers in a wide variety of industries, including automotive, tractor, fleet, off-road equipment, industrial, maintenance, and mining.
• Representation of an investment company with assets under management in excess of $1 billion in connection with its merger into a larger brokerage asset management company.

• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

• Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association
• Ohio State Bar Association
• American Bar Association

• “Practice and Procedure Clinic: Business Law,” Cleveland Bar Association, April 2005.
• "Ohio and Delaware Statutes and Case Law Update," Cleveland Bar Association Institute for Business Lawyers and Corporate Counsel, June 2004.
• “Recent Developments,” Cleveland Bar Association Securities Institute, February 2001.