Patrick G. Quick is a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP and a member of the firm's Transactional & Securities Practice and Sports and Automotive Industry Teams. Mr. Quick practices corporate law, with an emphasis in securities law compliance, acquisitions, and takeover defense. He regularly counsels several public companies concerning compliance requirements and governance matters and has participated in initial and other public offerings for Wisconsin corporations. Mr. Quick also has participated in many complex acquisition transactions representing both buying and selling parties in a variety of industries. He has been actively involved in the representation of clients doing advance takeover preparedness planning and has counseled clients who have received unsolicited takeover proposals or similar overtures.
Mr. Quick was among approximately 100 attorneys nationwide who made The BTI Consulting Group's coveted Client Services All Star Team for 2005 and 2004. This honor is bestowed upon individual attorneys who deliver outstanding client service according to corporate counsel interviewed at Fortune 1000 companies.
Mr. Quick has been Peer Review Rated as AV® Preeminent™, the highest performance rating in Martindale-Hubbell's peer review rating system and is listed in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2005-11). In addition, he has been selected by his peers for inclusion in the current edition of The Best Lawyers in America® in the areas of corporate law, mergers & acquisitions law and securities law. He was selected for inclusion in the Wisconsin Super Lawyers ® lists (2007-2011) and was recognized by the Legal 500 for his work in mergers & acquisitions (2011).
Mr. Quick is a member of the board of advisors of TheCorporateCounsel.net. His professional affiliations include memberships in the Milwaukee Bar Association, State Bar of Wisconsin, and American Bar Association. He served for many years on the board of directors of the Child Abuse Prevention (CAP) Fund and also has been involved in the United Way, the Children's Miracle Network Telethon for Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, and the Marquette University Business Administration Alumni Association.
Mr. Quick graduated, magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School in 1984, where he served as an editor of the Michigan Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif. He received his B.S., magna cum laude, from Marquette University, where he studied accounting.