Introduction

Ryan is a shareholder in Fredrikson & Byron’s Corporate, Securities, and Mergers & Acquisitions Groups. His practice involves assisting clients with a wide range of corporate finance transactions, including all aspects of public and private offerings of equity and debt securities. Ryan has significant experience advising publicly-traded companies and their boards on SEC reporting and compliance, corporate governance, strategic acquisitions and financings. Ryan also represents sellers, private equity funds, and strategic buyers on merger and acquisition transactions. Ryan regularly advises clients on entity formation, state corporate and securities law matters, as well as broker/dealer and other FINRA issues.  

Ryan also has experience working with publicly-traded wind energy and oil & gas companies, as well as biofuels producers on entity formation, development, M&A and financing transactions, and compliance and permitting issues.

Education

• University of Minnesota Law School, J.D., 2003, cum laude
• University of Nebraska, B.J., News-Editorial, 1999, cum laude

Bar Admissions

• Minnesota, 2003

Practice Areas

• Corporate
• Corporate Governance & Investigations
• Energy
• Renewable Energy
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Securities

Representative Experience

• Represent approximately 10 publicly-traded corporations on SEC compliance and corporate government matters
• Represented AGA Medical Holdings, Inc. in its sale to St. Jude Medical, Inc.
• Represented Craig-Hallum Capital Group, LLC as underwriter on follow-on common stock offering by Datalink
• Represented Titan Machinery Inc. in its initial public offering and two follow-on offerings
• Represented a publicly-traded data storage value-added reseller in a 144A convertible debt offering, a $110 million convertible subordinated notes exchange offer and a $50 million acquisition of privately-held target
• Represented local assisted-living facility in $5 million private placement of LLC interests
• Represented durable medical products manufacturer in its initial public offering
• Represented local software-as-a-service company in $90 million sale transaction
• Represented local filtration device manufacturer in $225 million sale transaction
• Represented publicly-traded wind energy components manufacturer in numerous acquisitions and securities financing transactions
• Represented local medical device manufacturer in a $3 million convertible debt offering
• Represented local software company in $3 million venture capital preferred equity investment
• Represented local software company in $15 million minority investment in preferred equity

Selected Publications & Presentations

• “Going and Being Public,” The Collaborative Growth Series, May 2011
• “Proxy Season 2011: Impact of the Dodd-Frank Act,” co-authored with Sean Nagle, FredALERT: Corporate & Securities, February 23, 2011
• “E-Proxy Rules Now Effective for All Public Companies,” April 2009
• “Smaller Company Reporting Rules: Impact on 2008 Form 10-K and Proxy,” FredNEWS: Corporate & Securities, February 2008, and FredNEWS: Business, April 2008
• “NASDAQ Introduces New Market Structure,” Fredrikson & Byron’s Business Focus Newsletter, November 2006

Honors & Distinctions

• Named a Rising Star, Minnesota Law & Politics magazine, 2009 and 2010
• Minnesota Law Review, Managing Editor 2002-2003, staff member 2001-2002
• Member of 1995 Nebraska Cornhuskers National Championship football team