Ryan Miest represents private equity funds, venture funds, and their portfolio companies, as well as other financial buyers, sellers, and investors, in platform and add-on acquisitions, divestitures, recapitalizations, and other transactions. Ryan also works with high-growth strategic enterprises, from start-ups to Fortune 100 corporations, on mergers and acquisitions, as well as financings and other significant transactional matters.
Ryan’s transactional expertise includes mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, financing transactions, intellectual property transactions, and other complex commercial relationships, in diverse industries such as 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 numerous high-growth clients, providing business-focused advice regarding corporate governance, equity compensation, financing, intellectual property protection, and other issues facing these 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, which was recently ranked in the Top 20 among US law firms in Pitchbook’s 2021 Annual Global League Tables, based on 2021 deal volume. He previously served as Co-Chair of the firm’s Corporate and Securities Department and on the firm’s Recruiting and Hiring Committee.
