Prior to this, Patrick held the position of Finance Director at DAC Beachcroft for many years until 2014. During his initial tenure, he led on many aspects of the opening of new offices in Dublin and Singapore and played a pivotal role in facilitating the firm's merger with DAC, and in particular the integration of DAC's Spanish and Mexican offices, which led to the combined firm's successful expansion into Chile and Colombia.

During the intervening period, Patrick continued his career within the legal sector, fulfilling roles as a CFO/Finance Director. Notably, he served as CFO in overseeing a firm's transition to becoming a publicly traded entity on the AIM market, and also led the commercial negotiations in supporting a law firm in acquiring a specialist non-legal consultancy practice, one of the first of its kind in the mid-tier.