Ryan D. McNamara

• Purchaser of the ReFresh Project, a 60,000-square-foot Whole Foods-anchored mixed-use community health hub developed to bring together partners to serve neighborhood health, education, and nutrition needs in New Orleans, La.
• Stirling, a full-service commercial real estate company servicing the Gulf South region, in the buyout of the interest of CBL & Associates Properties, Inc. (NYSE:CBL) in Fremaux Town Center, a 640,000-square-foot commercial shopping, retail, and dining center in Slidell, La.
• Stately Doors & Windows in the stock sale of its Las Vegas operations to Builders FirstSource, a publicly traded company.
• Stirling, a full-service commercial real estate company servicing the Gulf South region, in its sale of Westland Plaza.
• LEGION Protective in securing Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) partnerships with several LSU football players, as well as Baton Rouge-area high school standouts.
• Bernhard Capital Partners on behalf of Aventia (a BCP portfolio company) in its acquisition of Habitat Management, Inc.
• Danos in its acquisition of Wood’s U.S. onshore oil and gas labor supply.

Ryan’s prior experience also includes the following representations:

• FFL Partners on the sale of its portfolio company Eyemart Express to VSP Vision.
• J. Cole and Damian Mills, as part of a buyer group, in the acquisition of a majority stake in the Charlotte Hornets from Michael Jordan.
• Myles Garrett, an All-Pro player for the Cleveland Browns, in his purchase of a minority stake in the Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team.
• Second Nature Brands, a portfolio company of CapVest Partners LLP, on its acquisition of Sahale Snacks from The J.M. Smucker Co.
• Warburg Pincus on its investment in Service Compression, LLC.
• Bernhard, an energy-as-a-service solutions company, in connection with a sale to DIF Capital Partners.
• An investor in connection with the sale of the Baltimore Orioles of Major League Baseball.
• Tenex Capital Management in the sale of Team Select Home Care, a leading pediatric home care provider.
• The Capstreet Group in its sale of a majority stake in portfolio company PCS Software to LLR Partners.
• Easton Energy, a portfolio company of Cresta Fund Management, on the $280 million sale of its Gulf Coast Liquids Pipeline System to ONEOK, Inc. (NYSE: OKE).
• Burning Glas Technologies, a KKR Impact Fund portfolio company, in its combination with Emsi to form Emsi Burning Glass, a leading labor market analytics firm.
• ECP in connection with the acquisition of Liberty Tire Recycling from the Carlyle Group.
• A private equity firm in its minority investment in a Serie A soccer team.
• Damian Mills in connection with separate investments in the Carolina Courage of the National Women’s Soccer League and Carolina FC of the United Soccer League.
• A private equity consortium in connection with the $510 million acquisition of DuPont’s Clean Technologies business.
• McDermott International, Ltd on securing approximately $560 million in new capital.
• McDermott International, Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates in a $1.7 billion superpriority secured credit facility, and subsequently in a prepackaged Chapter 11 filing that deleveraged over $4 billion of funded debt and in securing a $2.81 billion debtor-in-possession financing package from their senior secured lenders, and upon exit from Chapter 11, in an exit financing consisting of $2.44 billion in letter of credit capacity and $544 million of term loan obligations.
• J. C. Penney Company and 17 of its affiliates in their pre-arranged Chapter 11 cases.
• Frontline Road Safety, a portfolio company of The Sterling Group, in its acquisition of the pavement marking contracting operations of Ozark Striping Company, LLC.
• IMB Partners and its portfolio company Pro Foods Solutions, a leading food supplier to the U.S. military worldwide, in connection with a $130 million dividend recapitalization.
• Pan Energy Infrastructure in its investment in Trinity Gas Storage, LLC.
• Post Oak Energy Capital, as investor in the PIPE transaction accompanying Earthstone Energy’s acquisition of Bighorn Permian Resources’ assets.
• Maverick Natural Resources in its merger with FourPoint Energy LLC to create Unbridled Resources LLC.
• HighPoint Resources Corp. (NYSE: HPR) on its $376 million combination with Bonanza Creek Energy, Inc. (NYSE: BCEI).