Patrick Reagin

Patrick Reagin is an attorney in the firm's Litigation and Dispute Resolution Section. Mr. Reagin focuses on complex business and commercial disputes, and he is a go-to lawyer in the firm for high-profile and significant exposure matters.

Mr. Reagin has particular experience representing purchasers and sellers in post-closing mergers and acquisitions (M&A) disputes and claims relating to earnouts, purchase price adjustments and for breaches of representations and warranties and indemnity, including litigating these issues in the courts of Delaware. He regularly publishes on matters involving directors and officers (D&O) liability, including updates on leading decisions from the Delaware Court of Chancery and other significant fora contributing to the development of D&O and securities law.

In his broader commercial practice, Mr. Reagin has handled numerous disputes on behalf of companies, their officers and directors in connection with business tort, fraud, contract, fiduciary duty, restrictive covenant, trade secret, unfair competition, Lanham Act, antitrust and civil Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) claims in courts around the country and in international arbitrations.

Mr. Reagin is client-service oriented, proactive and responsive. He looks for creative solutions to tough problems and aims to avoid a narrow courtroom-only approach to dispute resolution. He is based in Holland & Knight's Atlanta office.

In addition, Mr. Reagin has been recognized by his peers as One to Watch in Commercial Litigation since the 2023 edition of The Best Lawyers in America guide. He previously served as a board member of the Atlanta Bar Association and is a past president of the Atlanta Council of Younger Lawyers.

Mr. Reagin's notable representative matters include:

• representing a private developer in a contested and politicized bond validation proceeding for the public financing component of a proposed $5 billion mixed-use project and leading to the successful validation of the bonds
• representing one of the country's largest municipal utilities in a multibillion-dollar contract dispute regarding the financing for the last active nuclear construction project in the United States
• representing a seller in a nine-figure claim for fraud and breaches of representations and warranties arising out of an asset purchase deal
• representing a major oil company in a portfolio of toxic exposure claims arising out of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the largest marine oil spill in history

Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Mr. Reagin practiced with a large firm in New Orleans, where he litigated maritime, commercial and environmental cases. Upon graduation from law school, he clerked for the Honorable Ivan L.R. Lemelle of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. He graduated first in his law school class and served as articles editor of the Loyola Law Review.