Patrick has been providing legal services to institutional banking clients throughout New England for more than four decades. He previously served as in-house counsel for two major banks.

He is known for his precision in complex financing transactions, often representing institutional lenders and borrowers, including major banks, in deals involving historic redevelopment, economic development bonds, affordable housing and private business acquisition and expansion. He has established a niche specialty in financing of health care provider transactions. He also is experienced in representing lead and agent bank lenders in sophisticated syndicated and participated deals.

Patrick represents major real estate developers in their project development, permitting, borrowing and leasing transactions, including major development projects within the Capital Center District in downtown Providence. He brings a wealth of alternative financing options that help divergent parties reach mutually beneficial agreement during the negotiation process.

A frequent speaker, Patrick has been an active and enthusiastic lecturer for the American Law Institute since 1995 and serves as Program Chair for the Commercial Lending Today and Commercial Law Update. He has also been very involved as an executive in several public education related activities since 1988.

The “very knowledgeable” Patrick Guida is considered by market observers to be “a great banking and finance lawyer.” He is noted for his representation of both lenders and borrowers in connection with a broad range of lending transactions, and is particularly revered for his expertise in healthcare financings. | Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business

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• Recognized by Super Lawyers, Banking, Business & Corporate, Real Estate, Providence, 2008, 2013-Present
• Recognized by Best Lawyers in America, Banking and Finance Law, Commercial Finance Law, Rhode Island
  • “Lawyer of the Year” by Best Lawyers in America in Providence in the area of Banking and Finance, 2019
• Garnered the Distinguished Service Award by the National Association of State Boards of Education, 2014
• Rhode Island Lawyers Weekly, Excellence in Law Hall of Fame honoree, 2022

Professional & Community Involvement

• Rhode Island Bar Association, President-Elect
  • Executive Committee
  • House of Delegates
• Rhode Island Bar Foundation, Fellow
• American Bar Foundation, Rhode Island Fellow, Past Chair
• American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers, Fellow, 2011-present
  • President, 2022
  • Executive Committee, 2018
• Uniform Law Commission, Rhode Island Member, 2012-Present
• National Association of State Boards of Education
  • President, 2013
• National Association of State Boards of Education, Past President
• Rhode Island Board of Education
  • Council on Elementary and Secondary Education, Past Chair
• Barrington (Rhode Island) School Board, Forner Member and Past Chair
• Rhode Island Association of School Committees, Past President

Patrick presented at the 2018 ALI-CLE conference in New York in May on the topic of “Advanced Commercial Finance 2018: Critical Issues Below the Surface.”

He was one of three authors for “Sample Nonrecourse Loan Carveout and Springing Recourse Provisions with Borrower Comments” published by the American Law Institute in February of 2017. See publication PDF here.

He has been the program chair and a speaker for both the American Law Institute-Continuing Legal Education “Commercial Lending Today” program (since 1998) and for the Rhode Island Bar Association Annual “Commercial Law Update” (since 2010).

See the latest ALI-CLE program information here and the latest RIBA program information here.

Education

• Case Western Reserve University School of Law, J.D.
  • Case Western Law Review, Editor
• Union College, B.A., cum laude with distinction 

Bar Admissions 

• Rhode Island
• Massachusetts

Court Admissions

• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit