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Overview

Patrick is passionate about real estate development in St. Louis and the preservation of the city’s historic neighborhoods.

He enjoys being an active member on a team of advisors, investors, architects, contractors, banks and municipalities that work together to grow and improve the city. Patrick represents lenders, and developers in complex real estate transactions, including some of the metro area’s most high-profile projects.

Patrick advises clients on a wide variety of real estate financing matters throughout the Midwest, including:

  • Real estate sales and acquisitions
  • Complex finance transactions
  • State and federal historic tax credits
  • Tax increment financing
  • Public financing
  • Private-public partnerships
  • Economic development incentives
  • New markets tax credits
  • Leasing

Patrick also has experience representing clients in the negotiation, development and financing of professional sporting facilities, with a focus on the use of public financing mechanisms to facilitate the construction or development of such facilities.

Patrick’s past experience working in house for a St. Louis-based regional developer has provided him the unique ability to merge the business and legal sides of transactions.

Industry

Services

Recognition

  • Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch, Public Finance Law, Real Estate Law, 2021-2024
  • Missouri Lawyers Weekly, Up & Coming Lawyer, 2019

Education

  • J.D., Saint Louis University School of Law
    • magna cum laude
      • Order of the Woolsack
      • Saint Louis University Public Law Review, Managing Editor 2012-2013
      • Student Bar Association
  • B.S., Saint Louis University
    • Business Administration
    • cum laude

Admissions

  • Missouri

Professional Memberships and Certifications

  • The Missouri Bar
  • Leadership Clayton, Class of 2018-2109
  • Urban Land Institute (ULI) - St. Louis, Fundamentals of Economic Development Certificate
Outside the Office

Patrick is currently testing his construction skills by renovating his home.

When he’s not renovating the house he shares with his wife and their 2 dogs in the Southwest Garden neighborhood, he’s sports-minded. He’s an avid runner, having completed several half marathons and the Go! St. Louis 2019 full marathon. He also enjoys spring in Tower Grove Park, hiking and fishing trout streams with his father. Patrick is a faithful Saint Louis University alumnus and season ticket holder for Billikens basketball.

Community Leadership
  • St. Louis Public Library Foundation – Fundraising Committee, 2017; Board of Directors, 2019
  • RISE Community Development St. Louis
  • Friends of Tower Grove Park