Patrick is a honorary professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam Law School (The Netherlands) and currently a guest professor at Humboldt University Berlin Law School (Germany). He teaches and writes in the areas of corporate and commercial law. For his works on corporate governance and financial markets he has been awarded several research prizes. He served as an advisor on investor protection for the German Federal Ministry of Finance and currently is a member of an expert group on corporate governance reporting organized by the Schmalenbach Society for the Advancement of Research in Business Economics and Business Practice.