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Patrick M. Ellis

Patrick M. Ellis is a partner at Kuhn Rogers and joined the firm in 2019 as an associate. Patrick M. Ellis has extensive experience representing founders, investors, and businesses on entity selection and formation, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, financing, and commercial real estate, and acts as primary outside counsel on a wide variety of matters to national and multinational operating companies. Prior to Kuhn Rogers, Pat worked in General Motors’ legal department where he advised GM’s internal business units on various commercial transactions, regulatory compliance, and corporate matters.

Representative Clients and Transactions

  • Cambium Analytica (Traverse City, MI)
  • Represented the shareholder of Clark Manufacturing Company, a leading Midwest provider of metal machining specializing in oil and gas, fluid and compression and medical components, in its sale to a Michigan-based metal manufacturing and thermal processing company (Traverse City, MI)
  • Represented the management and shareholder of R.M. Young Company, a leading manufacturer of precision meteorological instrumentation, in the sale of the Company's equity to Benford Capital Partners, a Chicago-based private equity investment firm (Traverse City, MI)
Practice Areas
  • Banking & Finance
  • Corporate Law
  • Corporate M&A
  • Commercial Law & Transactions
  • Finance
  • Real Estate
Education
  • Michigan State University College of Law, J.D. magna cum laude (2014)
  • Bellarmine University, B.A. cum laude (2011)
Admission to Practice
  • Michigan
Honors and Recognition
  • Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America (Business Organizations) 2024
  • Super Lawyers Rising Stars (Business and Corporate Law) 2023
  • Super Lawyers Rising Stars (Business and Corporate Law) 2022
  • Super Lawyers Rising Stars (Business and Corporate Law) 2021
Community Involvement
  • The Salvation Army (Traverse City), Advisory Board member