Patrick is an energy and infrastructure lawyer with many years of experience of power, oil and gas and infrastructure work. He acts on a wide range of transactions, covering projects, joint ventures, private M&A and asset acquisitions, privatisations, commercial contracts and trading and regulatory work. He has a broad-ranging practice both in the UK and internationally, where he has particularly strong experience in Central and Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia. Patrick’s power sector expertise includes thermal, nuclear, and renewables generation, transmission, supply and distribution and emissions trading. He was heavily involved in establishing the UK power market at privatisation and in its subsequent reform; and he has worked on many major power projects and acquisitions in the UK, mainland Europe, Africa and Asia since the early 1990s. Patrick's other energy and natural resource experience includes oil and gas pipelines, refineries, supply contracts, oil and gas acquisitions and mining and water sector transactions. Patrick has also been involved in many large projects in the infrastructure, transport, public services, defence and other sectors, both internationally and under the UK’s private finance initiative and public private partnership programmes. Patrick is regularly named by directories as a leading energy lawyer. Legal 500 has described him as "a very well-respected all-rounder' and ‘a great asset in difficult negotiations". Chambers has said he is "very hands-on" and "clearly excellent and knowledgeable".Patrick speaks fluent English, French and German.