Ryan Miest works with high-growth enterprises, from start-ups to Fortune 100 corporations, on acquisitions, divestitures, financings and other significant transactional matters. Ryan also represents private equity funds, venture capital funds, and their portfolio companies, as well as other financial buyers, sellers, and investors in platform and add-on acquisitions, divestitures, financings and other transactions.
Ryan’s transactional experience and expertise includes mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, financing transactions, complex intellectual property transactions, and other complex commercial relationships, in diverse industries including technology, financial services, food, manufacturing, health care and retail. His practice combines deep substantive expertise with extensive practical experience and a solutions-oriented mentality. In addition to transactional matters, Ryan also serves as outside general counsel to over a dozen high-growth clients, providing business-focused advice regarding corporate governance, equity compensation, financing, intellectual property protection, and other issues facing fast-moving businesses.
Ryan is also active in the management of Fredrikson & Byron, currently serving as the Co-Chair of the firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions Department. He previously served as Co-Chair of the firm’s Corporate and Securities Department and on the firm’s Recruiting and Hiring Committee.
