Patrick C. Diaz

Patrick C. Diaz is an associate in the Corporate Practice Group in the firm's Washington, D.C. office. 

Areas of Practice

Patrick represents private equity sponsors, their platform companies and private companies in leveraged buyouts, M&A transactions and general corporate governance matters. For M&A transactions, his experience includes asset purchases, equity purchases, mergers and carve-outs both on the buy-side and the sell-side. Patrick represents clients in the aerospace and defense, government services, technology services, and healthcare services industries.

Patrick also has experience helping both private equity portfolio companies and venture-backed startups with corporate governance on their capitalization tables, director, manager and officer slates, corporate filings, and other corporate governance matters.

Before joining Sheppard Mullin, Patrick worked in the technology industry at SAP and Tata Consultancy Services, where he led its AI practice on Microsoft in North America.

Experience

• Represented Tex-Tech Industries, Inc. in its acquisition of Fiber Materials Inc., an industry leader in high-temperature materials and reinforced composites, from Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc. (NYSE: SPR).

• Represented Precision Medicine Group and its affiliates in connection the acquisition of the shares of Algorics, Inc., a leading provider of biostatistics, clinical data management and statistical programming for clinical trials, and its Indian affiliate.
• Represented Arlington Capital Partners in connection with its sale of J&J Worldwide Services, a leading provider of facility management, operational support and integrated asset management services for the Department of Defense and other components of U.S. Federal Government, to CBRE Group Inc. (NYSE: CBRE)
• Represented Avenu Insights & Analytics, a portfolio company of Arlington Capital Partners, in its acquisition of Justice Systems and Columbia Ultimate Business Systems, a providers of payment services to state and local governments.
• Represented Arlington Capital Partners in its acquisition of Avenu Insights & Analytics, a provider of integrated administrative, revenue enhancement and payment software and solutions to state and local governments, from Mill Point Capital.
• Represented Systems Planning and Analysis, a portfolio company of Arlington Capital Partners, in its acquisition of PRKK, a provider of consulting services to customers in defense, intelligence and critical civilian governmental agencies.
• Represented Leia, Inc. in its acquisition of Dimenco, a Dutch 3D display hardware startup.
• Represented Precision Medicine Group and its affiliates in connection the acquisition of Baseline Controls, an engineering services company serving life science companies.
• Represented DartPoints, a leading provider of colocation, cloud, and cybersecurity services for edge markets, in its acquisition of Venyu, Louisiana's premier data center infrastructure and cloud services provider from EATEL.
• Represented the senior executive team of Maxor (a national pharmacy services company) in connection with the acquisition of the company by Towerbrook Capital Partners.

Articles

AI Law and Policy Blog Posts

• "AI Considerations in Government Contract-Related M&A Transactions," August 8, 2024