Patrick C. Closson

Patrick C. Closson is a business lawyer and director in McLane Middleton’s Corporate Department and chair of the firm’s Healthcare Group, with offices in Manchester and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He is a corporate and transactional lawyer who helps clients form, grow, and sell businesses. His practice includes general corporate law, health care matters, mergers and acquisitions, complex contracts, outside general counsel work, and succession planning. He works with private companies and owners on practical legal and business solutions.

Patrick earned a J.D. from Boston College Law School in 1998 and a B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of New Hampshire in 1995. His education supports a practice involving business formation, securities, contracts, governance, acquisitions, sales, and regulated industries. He is admitted in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Maine. His corporate training and long transactional practice help him structure deals, evaluate legal risk, and advise owners and management teams through important stages of business growth and transition.

Patrick represents private companies and owners on entity formation, private securities offerings, complex contracts, and corporate governance. As chair of the Healthcare Group, he works with physicians, physician groups, dentists, and other professionals on governance, compliance, acquisitions, and sales. His experience includes significant health care transactions and work across manufacturing, medical device, defense, technology, financial services, energy, and food industries. He also serves as outside general counsel for private companies throughout New England.

Patrick C. Closson serves on McLane Middleton’s Management Committee and has received recognition for corporate, health care, and mergers and acquisitions work. His honors include listings in Chambers USA and The Best Lawyers in America, including Lawyer of the Year recognition in corporate and mergers and acquisitions categories. His practice combines transaction experience with ongoing business counseling, helping companies and owners address contracts, governance, succession, regulated-industry concerns, acquisitions, and sales with practical commercial judgment.

Law Office Affiliations

• Attorney, McLane Middleton
• Member, New Hampshire Bar Association
• Member, Massachusetts Bar Association
• Member, Maine State Bar Association
• Member, American Bar Association, Business Law Section
• NH State Liaison, American Bar Association’s Corporate Law Committee
• Member, Boston College Law School Alumni Council
• Chair-Elect and Member of the Executive Board, Business and Industry Association
• Board Member, Leadership New Hampshire
• Past Chair, University of New Hampshire Alumni Association Board of Directors
• Former Board Member, Leadership Seacoast
• Past Chair, Leadership Seacoast, Board of Directors
• Past Vice Chair, City Year New Hampshire Site Board of Directors
• Past Chair, Child and Family Services, Seacoast Board of Directors
• Member, New Hampshire Board of Accountancy

Licensed State

• New Hampshire
• Massachusetts
• Maine

Education

• Boston College Law School
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• University of New Hampshire
  Bachelor of Arts (BA) (Summa Cum Laude)

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