Ryan provides strategic counsel to public and private technology and life sciences companies ranging from early startup teams to mature public companies. He also has extensive experience leading complex buy- and sell-side mergers and acquisitions for private and public companies. Ryan’s experience also includes structuring, negotiating and executing a wide variety of complex corporate transactions, including seed and venture capital financings, debt financings, corporate reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, and other strategic transactions.
While in law school, Ryan served as a legal extern to Judge Michael Hayden of King County Superior Court and was also notes and comments editor for Washington Law Review.
Practices
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Representative Matters
- Acucela’s IPO on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
- Amyris’ multiple strategic public company financings
- AnaptysBio’s IPO on NASDAQ
- Cascadian Therapeutics’ multiple strategic public company financings
- Cisco Systems’ $260M acquisition of Cliqr Technologies
- Dropbox’s acquisition of Readmill
- Facebook’s multiple strategic acquisitions
- Keynote System’s $395M acquisition by Thoma Bravo
- LearnVest’s acquisition by Northwestern Mutual
- MetricStream’s multiple equity financings
- Omada Health’s multiple equity financings
- OncoGenex Pharmaceutical’s merger with Achieve Life Sciences
- Qumulo’s multiple financings
- Relievant Medsystems’ equity financing
- SGN Games’ acquisition of TinyCo
- Square’s acquisition of Caviar
- Vocera’s $55M acquisition of Extension Healthcare
- Wealthfront’s multiple financings
- Ustream’s acquisition by IBM
Education & Admissions
J.D., University of Washington School of Law
B.A., Business Administration
University of Washington
Admitted to practice in Washington