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About Pat

Savvy business law guidance, with a focus on privately held businesses

Pat Goebel focused in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, and general business and corporate matters. His practice included an emphasis on the representation of privately held businesses in legal, financial, and business matters.

Successes

  • Represented both buyers and sellers, strategic and financial, in over 150 successful stock and asset acquisitions and divestitures and venture capital transactions throughout the United States.
  • Represented a large, privately held Midwestern manufacturer in its acquisition and divestiture program involving over 30 separate transactions.
  • Represented the ownership group in the sale to a strategic buyer of a leading supplier of natural smoke flavors and savory grill flavors serving meat, culinary and food industry markets worldwide.
  • Represented a large, privately held Midwestern manufacturer in its purchase of one of the premier global manufacturers of highly engineered continuous cast iron bar products.
  • Represented the ownership group in the sale to a private equity firm of a leading manufacturer of premium de-inked recycled pulp using post-consumer waste.
  • Represented the seller of a multi-billion-dollar foodservice business in the sale of that business to a privately held buyer.
  • Represented the seller of a multi-billion-dollar food wholesale business in the sale of that business to a strategic buyer.
  • Represented the family ownership group in the sale of one of the largest privately held foundry businesses in the United States.
  • Regularly advised privately held and family businesses and their owners with respect to general business and commercial matters, succession planning, estate and financial planning matters, and taxation

Professional Recognitions

  • Best Lawyers® "Lawyer of the Year" (2022: Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law)
  • Wisconsin Law Journal "Leader In The Law" (2017)
  • Best Lawyers in America® (2007–present: Corporate Law; Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law; Mergers and Acquisitions Law)
  • Martindale-Hubbell AV® Peer Review Rated

Professional & Civic Activities

  • Milwaukee Bar Association, member
  • American Bar Association, member: business law and taxation sections
  • State Bar of Wisconsin, member

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