Ryan has decades of legal experience representing sophisticated, entrepreneurial, and institutional real estate clients across billions of dollars of transactions. But what makes him truly unique is that Ryan is equally comfortable in wingtips or a hard hat. He spent over a decade working as the Chief Legal Officer of a premier real estate developer (building, converting, or renovating roughly 8,300 Class A+ rental units with a total project cost of about $4,300,000,000) where he provided counseling throughout the entire life-cycle of real estate investments. He has also served as a general counsel for affiliated general contractors, manufacturing and property management companies, and has been a trusted advisor to developers, lenders, and investors alike looking for a resource that both understands the nuances of the “dirt” real estate business and the complexity of structured finance with an eye on how to scale a business.

Prior to his in-house work, Ryan was a real estate and corporate attorney at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, and before that Ryan worked for Kirkland & Ellis LLP. In both roles, Ryan represented real estate private equity sponsors, investment banks, high net worth individuals, developers, real estate operating companies, and hospitality clients in all aspects of private equity real estate transactions.

Working across the life cycle of a real estate project means Ryan has a breadth of experience that covers both the capitalization of projects (e.g., mortgage and mezzanine debt, common and preferred equity together with ground leases, tax credit and syndications) and the successful execution of buying, entitling, building, managing, leasing and selling (or recapitalizing) real estate. As a trusted advisor, Ryan also has extensive experience in general partner and corporate-level and platform growth strategies for developers and other private equity companies as they mature.

He is admitted to practice in New York and Pennsylvania.