Responsive, creative, and results-driven, Ryan focuses on developing a trusting and accommodating relationship with clients across a variety of industries.
Ryan advises private companies, private equity funds and family offices, as well as their portfolio companies, in mergers and acquisitions, specifically in buy-side and sell-side transactions, auction sale, recapitalization, joint ventures, and strategic initiatives.
Ryan additionally counsels clients with respect to general corporate and commercial matters, entity formation, governance, securityholder agreements and securities compliance. He spent a year as in-house legal counsel at a multi-national corporation specializing in the production and installation of floor and wall coverings, as well as artificial turf, tennis courts, tracks and fieldhouses. During this time, he provided advice to leadership on a variety of complex business issues, negotiated large commercial contracts, and oversaw several acquisitions.
Representative Experience
- Represented a private equity sponsor in its acquisition of a leading luxury apparel brand and wholesaler of cashmere products.
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Represented Stonehenge Partners in its investment into Stratus Surfaces, LLC, an importer and distributor of high-grade natural stone, quartz and porcelain slabs and related products used in residential and commercial construction and remodeling projects.
- Represented a publicly listed global manufacturer in the acquisition of a North America-based manufacturer of industrial motion components primarily used in the energy industry.
- Represented SC holdings, an investment firm, in its follow-on majority growth investment in Transmit.live, a market-leading streaming advertising technology platform, from an investor group led by a fund managed by LionTree, a global merchant bank with expertise in media and technology.
- Represented SC Holdings and other investors in their purchase of a Major League Pickleball team.
- Represented buyer in its acquisition of a disaster restoration services company from an ESOP.
- Represented Allstates WorldCargo, a portfolio company of Clarendon Capital, in its acquisition of Ground Freight Expeditors.
- Represented the buyer in its acquisition of a German provider of data and software-based anti-financial crime compliance solutions.
- Represented Ennis-Flint in its acquisition of ThermoDrop® thermoplastic assets and product line from Potters, and Potters purchased Ennis-Flint’s bead manufacturing facilities. Ennis-Flint is a worldwide leader in the traffic safety, access, rail, and road marking industries providing the most comprehensive line-up of pavement marking materials and electronic control products.
- Represented Kaulig Capital, in partnership with management, in its acquisition of Phillips Syrups & Sauces, a maker of food items largely used in coffee and ice cream shops.
