The New Hampshire Business Review has named attorneys Patrick Closson, Director in the firm’s Corporate Department, Michael Delaney, Director and Chair of the firm’s Litigation Department, and Mark Wright, Director and Chair of the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group to its 2025 New Hampshire 200 List. The list of leaders for the 2025 edition is a unique group of people who have made their mark on New Hampshire’s economy, business climate and the state as a whole.
New Hampshire’s business visionaries have persistently demonstrated ingenuity and motivation across diverse industries, navigating through novel challenges and seizing emerging opportunities. NH Business Review aims to commend these remarkable leaders at its third New Hampshire 200 reception, scheduled for Tuesday, May 6, 2025 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the Grappone Conference Center in Concord.
This esteemed roster, showcasing 200 of the most influential and on-the-rise business figures statewide, is meticulously crafted bi-annually by the NH Business Review editors following extensive research and analysis.
Patrick is a corporate and transactional lawyer who helps clients form, grow, and sell their businesses, and works with his clients to solve challenging problems with practical solutions. Patrick works with clients in five main areas: general corporate law, healthcare law matters, mergers and acquisitions, complex contracts, and succession planning. Throughout his career, Patrick has represented private companies and their owners on a wide variety of corporate law matters including entity formation, private security offerings, negotiation of complex contracts and general corporate governance. He continues to serve as outside general counsel for private companies throughout New England. Patrick also represents a variety of clients with complex transactions and contracts, including clients in the manufacturing, medical device, defense, high technology, financial services, energy and wholesale food industries.
Mike is an experienced trial attorney and has litigated cases in state and federal courts for over 30 years. He represents organizations and individuals with government and internal investigations and complex civil and criminal litigation. He also advises schools, colleges and universities on Title IX issues, responses to faculty and student misconduct and compliance issues. Michael conducts and oversees internal investigations and provides counsel to organizations on crisis management. As chief law enforcement officer and chief legal counselor of the State, having served as Attorney General of New Hampshire (2009 – 2013), legal counsel to Governor John H. Lynch (2006-2009), Deputy Attorney General (2004-2006), and Chief of the State’s Homicide Prosecution Unit (1999-2004,) he handled a broad range of complex litigation and regulatory matters, including multi-state cases, fraud investigations, corporate compliance issues, financial services regulation, health and hospitals litigation, environmental litigation and energy matters, contract disputes, labor and employment, not-for-profit organizations, criminal law, antitrust, and consumer issues.
Mark has over 30 years of experience counseling clients and assisting them in protecting their intellectual property rights in the United States and foreign countries. In addition to his law degree, Mark has a Master of Intellectual Property Degree. Clients seek him out for his sophisticated expertise in trademark protection, management, and counselling services to help them strategically build and protect the value of their brands. His experience spans a wide range of intellectual property areas, including domestic and international trademarks, development agreements and licensing of software, trade secrets, domain name disputes and other Internet-related issues, copyrights, confidentiality agreements and litigation related to intellectual property rights. Mark is at the forefront of the US trademark profession with an extensive practice representing regional, national and international businesses.
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