- The Legal 500 highlighted Ryan among the United States’ leading lawyers for M&A Corporate and Commercial work (2020)
- The Best Lawyers in America named Ryan to its Ones to Watch list for Venture Capital Law (2021)
- Ryan was named a Rising Star by Northern California Super Lawyers (2019)
Ryan focuses on a broad variety of corporate matters to support clients in the technology and life sciences industries. He represents startups, from inception through the exit process on all corporate matters, including financings; strategic transactions; joint ventures; corporate governance; secondary liquidity and day-to-day corporate matters. He also represents venture capital firms in venture and growth capital financings, as well as mergers and acquisitions.
Professional Achievements
Representative Clients
- AutoFi
- AppLovin
- Brilliant Home Technology
- Calico
- GoPro
- Gusto
- HackerOne
- Honor Technology
- Horizen
- Linear Labs
- Malwarebytes
- Mapbox
- Moloco
- Roofstock
- Salty
- TigerConnect
- Vida Health
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Representative Experience
Venture Capital Financings
- Moloco in $150M Series C financing
- AppLovin in its $400M financing from KKR
- Gusto in its Series A and subsequent financings
- Honor Technology in its Series A and subsequent financings
- Roofstock in its $50M Series D financing
- HackerOne in its $36.4M Series D financing
- Vida Health in its $110M Series D financing
Mergers and Acquisitions- WhatsApp in its $19B acquisition by Facebook
- Jet.com in its $3B acquisition by Walmart
- Tubi in is $440M acquisition by Fox Corporation
- Blue River Technology in its $305M acquisition by John Deere
- SmartAG in its acquisition by Raven Industries
- Rhyme in its acquisition by Coursera
- DataFox Sale in its acquisition by Oracle
- Ustream in its acquisition by IBM
- Beyondcore in its acquisition by Salesforce
- Cisco, Applovin, SAP and Qualtrics in acquisition transactions
Education & Admissions
J.D., Stanford Law School
B.S., summa cum laude, Economics and Political Science
University of Oregon
Admitted to practice in California