Patrick R. Tomlinson
Pat Tomlinson focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions and other complex business transactions, including leveraged buyouts, carve-out transactions, joint ventures, controlling and minority investments and other strategic transactions, as well as general corporate matters. He has significant experience representing private equity firms, as well as public and private companies in domestic and cross-border transactions across a broad range of industries.
Pat received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia School of Law. During law school, Pat served on the editorial board of the Virginia Law Review and worked with start-up companies as part of the University of Virginia School of Law Transactional Law Clinic. Pat received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Virginia.
- University of Virginia School of Law (J.D.), 2015
- University of Virginia (B.A.), 2011
Bar Admissions
- District of Columbia Bar
- New York State Bar
- Virginia State Bar
Virginia Super Lawyers - "Rising Stars" Mergers & Acquisitions (2024)
Best Lawyers® – "Ones to Watch" for Corporate Law and Mergers and Aquisions Law (2025)
Experience
- Representation of a private equity firm on multiple transactions, including its acquisition of a technology-focused provider of products and expertise to national security customers; its acquisition of an online provider of home décor; and its formation of a health care joint venture through the acquisition of health care services companies.
- Representation of the portfolio company of a private equity firm on multiple acquisitions of maintenance, repair and overhaul businesses.
- Representation of a private equity firm in its acquisition of a behavioral healthcare services company.
- Representation of a private equity firm in its acquisition of a bulk-liquid storage business.
- Representation of a global entertainment, sports and content company in its acquisition of an experiential hospitality company.
- Representation of a private equity firm in its acquisition of an international customs brokerage and trade services firm.
- Representation of a multinational energy company on the formation of a joint venture with a provider of renewable energy.
- Representation of a multinational medical technology company on the carve-out and sale of its global respiratory business.
