Ryan has experience in mergers and acquisitions, securities compliance, equity financings and debt transactions.
Most of Ryan's work focuses on private equity firms and their portfolio companies, and has included funds targeting the automotive, chemical, and logistics industries. He also advises clients on general business law matters.
Representative Experience
- Represented Qualus Power Services, a portfolio company of New Mountain Capital, in its acquisition via merger of GridBright, a leading power industry technology solutions firm.
- Represented one of the largest multifamily developers in the country as the seller in its disposition of five affordable housing properties in Texas totaling over $73,000,000, with three sales structured as partnership interest entity sales and the other two structured as fee simple sales.
- Represented Meridian Adhesives Group, a leading producer of high-performance advanced adhesives for electronics, infrastructure, and industrial end markets, in its sale to American Securities, a leading U.S. private equity firm.
- Represented Cleveland Diagnostics, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing next-generation diagnostic tests for the early detection of cancers, during its Series D round of investing lead by Lyfe Capital which raised over $19 million in financing.
- Represented Chroma Color Corporation, a portfolio company of Arsenal Capital Partners and a leading specialty color and additive concentrate supplier serving the global plastics marketplace, in its recent acquisition of Plastics Color Corporation.
- Represented Trace3, a premier provider of advanced technology consultation services and solutions, in a definitive agreement to acquire LaSalle Solutions, a business division of Fifth Third Bank.
- Represented large residential remodeling company in its acquisition of a technology-centered provider of replacement windows.
- Represented buyer in its add-on acquisition of a third-party transportation logistics services business and a motor carrier services business.
- Represented Foundation Software, the leading national software developer for accounting services in the construction industry, in its acquisition by Thoma Bravo, a leading private equity investment firm.
