Patrick McKay

About

Patrick McKay is a Senior Attorney at Kirk, Huth, Lange & Badalamenti, PLC.  Mr. McKay represents commercial real estate sellers, purchasers and developers regarding their transactional and development needs.  He works alongside his clients negotiating the deal, through the due diligence period, to closing and beyond.  He has experience negotiating, drafting and ensuring compliance with transactional documents and in reviewing and addressing title issues.  He also assists his clients with financing as well as with on-site and off-site easements and agreements when developing property.
Mr. McKay  represents small to medium sized businesses.  He assists his business clients with all of their issues during  business formation, in contracting with other businesses, suppliers, contractors or employees, and when purchasing a new business or selling a business. Mr. McKay has a vast array of experience negotiating and drafting business transactional documents, including employment agreements with non-compete and confidentiality provisions, severance agreements and manufacturing and supply contracts, including Michigan Beer Distribution Agreements.
He has also worked alongside banks and court appointed receivers regarding Receivership litigation, business operations, real property management, collections and the liquidation and sale of entire businesses, and real and personal property.
Mr. McKay has a vast experience in civil litigation cases, some of which have focused on quieting title to real property, construction lien foreclosure, business contracts, shareholder/member disputes, personal injury, premises liability and municipal claims and defenses.
Mr. McKay graduated in 2001 from Notre Dame High School in Harper Woods. He attended Marian University in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin and graduated (cum laude) in 2005 with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a double-major in Marketing and Management. In 2005, he was chosen “Marketing Student of the Year” by the Marian University Faculty and was a finalist for Student-Athlete of the Year and Student of the Year. While attending law school he worked as a law clerk for Kirk, Huth, Lange & Badalamenti, PLC. In 2008, he received his Juris Doctor from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law and was hired as an attorney by Kirk, Huth, Lange & Badalamenti, PLC.
Mr. McKay is a member of the State Bar of Michigan (Real Property and Business Law Sections), the Macomb County Bar Association, and has been admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan and the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. In 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 he was rated as a Rising Star by SuperLawyers.
Mr. McKay lives with his wife Nicole and their three sons.  He coaches his sons' hockey teams and sits on the Board of Governors for the St. Clair Shores Hockey Association as the legal representative.