Amish Patel
Amish Patel serves as a trusted legal and business advisor to large and middle-market companies, private equity-backed businesses, entrepreneurs, boards of directors, and executive leadership teams on a broad range of corporate and transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, corporate governance, corporate restructurings, strategic partnerships, economic development, and tactical business initiatives. He regularly acts as outside general counsel to companies across diverse industries, including life sciences, advanced manufacturing, medical devices, and software-as-a-service (SaaS), providing practical, business-oriented advice that helps clients navigate complex legal, operational, and governance challenges. He also advises entrepreneurs and startups on choice of entity issues, early-stage growth financing, tax implications, commercial licensing transactions, and intellectual property protection.
Complementary to his legal practice, Amish brings a valuable boardroom perspective through his service as outside general counsel to middle-market companies, where he works closely with management, investors, and owners on strategic, operational, and governance matters. He regularly counsels management teams and boards on organizational strategy, governance best practices, compliance matters, and significant business transactions. Amish also has extensive experience advising and collaborating with boards of directors of both nonprofit and for-profit organizations, helping them address governance, risk management, fiduciary responsibilities, growth initiatives, succession planning, and other critical business issues.
Amish's practice is also devoted to economic development and business expansion projects. Amish counsels global, national, and regional companies on securing economic development incentives and navigating expansion opportunities by coordinating with state and local governments and other economic development stakeholders. His experience includes negotiating economic development incentives for projects involving foreign direct investment, establishing advanced manufacturing facilities, and corporate headquarter relocations. He has represented Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies, as well as middle-market companies, in obtaining state and local incentives, grants, and other economic development opportunities.
Amish’s commitment to fostering economic growth and community development extends beyond his legal practice. He served on the boards of the Morrisville Innovation Foundation and TiE Carolinas and chaired the Morrisville Start-Up Committee. He also serves as vice chair of the Willliams Mullen Engagement Committee.
Before attending law school and entering private practice, Amish had a successful consulting career at Accenture and Deloitte & Touche. At Accenture, Amish provided financial management and analysis services on multi-billion-dollar government projects. He leveraged this experience to become a senior consultant with Deloitte & Touche, where he routinely consulted privately held and publicly traded companies on internal controls compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), business process improvement and business and IT risk management.
Amish earned a B.B.A. with a dual concentration in finance and information systems from The George Washington University, and he earned his Juris Doctorate degree from Campbell University.
- Campbell University School of Law (J.D.)
- The George Washington University (B.B.A.)
Professional Affiliations
- TiE Carolinas Chapter - Executive Board
- ACG Raleigh - Member
- North Carolina Bar Association Leadership Academy - Class of 2019
- Morrisville Innovation Foundation - Past Board Member (2016-2018)
- Morrisville Start Up Committee - Past Chair (2014-2018)
Bar Admissions
- North Carolina State Bar
Court Admissions
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina
Best Lawyers® – "Ones to Watch" for Corporate Law and Mergers and Acquisitions Law (2021-present)
North Carolina Super Lawyers - "Rising Stars" (2022-present)
Experience
- Represented an RTP-based medical device company on convertible debt financing totaling $10M.
- Represent a growth stage optical sensor company on equity financing totaling $16M.
- Represented plant-based food manufacturing company on complex capital restructuring involving entity conversions, IP assignments and contributions, and various equity, debt, and warrant conversions.
- Represented a development-staged life science company commercializing central nervous system treatments on a $40M private equity financing.
- Represented a Fortune 250 and a Fortune 500 business in their re-location to North Carolina.
- Serve as outside general counsel to cybersecurity software start up, counseling on general corporate issues, customer negotiations, and $5M Series A round financing.
- Regularly represent angel fund on closing and due diligence matters for investments in the agtech, real estate, financial services, and medical device industries.
- Represented a home automation equipment manufacturer on Series A, Series B, and Series C private placement equity financing in the amounts of $2.1M, $1.0M, and $2.5M, respectively.
- Served as outside general counsel to healthcare software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider on Series A and Convertible Note private placement equity financing in the amounts of $500k and $1M, respectively, and contracting with multinational computer manufacturer on an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) software licensing deal.
- Served as outside general counsel to medical device company on Seed and Series A private placement equity financing in the amounts of $150k and $1M, respectively, drafting and negotiating manufacturer supply agreement with contract manufacturer to manufacture regulated medical device product, drafting and negotiating clinical trial study agreement with German-based medical practice.
- Represented international furniture manufacturer in a $10M asset sale transaction to U.S.-based manufacturer and retailer.
- Represented multiple dental practices in asset purchase acquisitions on buy- and sell-side transactions.
- Represented regional engineering design firm in an asset purchase acquisition by an Indian-based engineering firm.
- Served as outside general counsel to electric utility component manufacturer on drafting and negotiating supplier and distribution agreements with U.S. and South American companies, assisting litigation counsel on employment and intellectual property dispute with multinational Swiss-based company, counseling on U.S. export license requirements for foreign sales, and negotiating with State of North Carolina for economic incentives.
- Represented HIPAA-compliant SaaS provider on building a national value-added reseller network.
- Represented medical device company on commercialization services agreement with specialty colonoscopy medical device manufacturer.
- Represented medical device distributor on supply agreement with Indian-based medical device manufacturer.
- Assisted Indian-based cosmeceutical company in establishing U.S. subsidiary entity.
- Assisted industrial equipment supplier in forming Interest Charge - Domestic International Sales Corporation (IC-DISC) entity.
- Represented multiple U.S. companies on drafting transfer pricing agreements with parent companies in Germany, Sweden, and China.
- Regularly represents large life sciences company on vendor and customer contracting, including intellectual property licensing agreements, consulting services agreements and various types of master services agreements.
- Drafted suite of customer contracts tailored to digital marketing services client and regularly represents the client on negotiations with its customers.
