PACS Group Inc., a Farmington-based holding company investing in post-acute healthcare facilities, professionals and ancillary services, has selected Patrick J. Murphy as chief legal officer and corporate secretary. He succeeds John Mitchell, who has retired as chief legal officer and corporate secretary but will serve as a consultant to PACS during the transition. Murphy will oversee PACS’s legal function and provide counsel in support of their operations and strategic priorities. Murphy has more than two decades of senior in-house and public-sector legal experience. He joins PACS from the global law firm of King & Spalding, where he was a partner in their Special Matters Practice Group. Previously, he spent 20 years in General Electric’s legal department, including five years in its Corporate Litigation group and nearly 15 years as global chief litigation counsel for GE Healthcare. He also served as a senior vice president legal and global chief litigation counsel for Fresenius Medical Care and has advised companies, boards and senior executives on complex litigation, corporate investigations, government enforcement and compliance matters. Murphy’s public service experience includes serving as chief counsel to the Crime and Technology Unit of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee majority staff and as assistant general counsel to the FBI. He began his legal career as a judge advocate in the U.S. Marine Corps, attaining the rank of major, and later was recalled to active duty in the wake of 9/11 to the Pentagon and Guantanamo Bay to serve as a liaison between the Secretary of Defense’s Office and the Solicitor General’s Office on all terrorism-related litigation. Mitchell joined PACS in 2017, managing the legal department and supporting organizational growth and its IPO. Before joining the company, he held various positions in healthcare and health services, international law, corporate law, finance, and mergers and acquisitions.
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