Amish Patel

Amish Patel works closely with large and middle-market companies and entrepreneurs to provide business and legal counsel on corporate and transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity fundraising, economic development, and corporate governance issues. Amish serves as outside general counsel to companies across a broad range of industries, including life sciences, manufacturing, medical device and software-as-a-service (SaaS).

He prides himself on his practical approach to client service, ever mindful of the importance of generating efficiencies for clients. In that vein, he is responsive and careful to present new information in a clear and concise manner.

Amish helps companies close venture capital and private equity financing rounds, including equity and convertible debt financings; provides guidance on corporate governance matters; and advises on M&A transactions, including pre-closing activities and post-closing integration matters. He also advises entrepreneurs and startups on choice of entity issues, tax implications and intellectual property protection. Specifically, Amish has experience working with medical device and software-as-a-service companies on early-stage growth financing, general corporate matters, IP and commercial licensing transactions.

Amish counsels global and national companies on attracting and securing economic development incentive opportunities for expansion into the region by working with various economic development stakeholders, including state and local governments. He has negotiated economic development projects ranging from foreign direct investment to establishing manufacturing facilities to corporate headquarter relocations. He has assisted Fortune 100/500 companies on navigating the economic development incentive process at the state and local levels, in addition to assisting mid-market companies with applying for qualifying state and local grants based on project and site requirements.

Further illustrating his commitment to the growth of the Raleigh-Durham market, Amish is an executive board member of TiE Carolinas, a global entrepreneurship organization. In addition, Amish was a past board member of the Morrisville Innovation Foundation, and the past committee chair for the Morrisville Start-Up Committee.

Amish is listed among the Best Lawyers® – "Ones to Watch" (2020-present) and in North Carolina Super Lawyers "Rising Stars" (2022).

Before attending law school and entering private practice, Amish had a successful consulting career at Accenture and Deloitte & Touche. At Accenture, Amish provided financial management and analysis services on multi-billion-dollar government contracts. He leveraged this experience to become a senior consultant with Deloitte & Touche, where he routinely consulted privately held and publicly traded companies on internal controls compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), business process improvement and business and IT risk management.

Amish earned a B.B.A. with a dual concentration in finance and information systems from George Washington University, and he earned his Juris Doctor degree from Campbell University.