Practice Focus
Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, Securities, Private Equity and Venture Capital, Real EstateRyan McNamara focuses his practice on corporate law, including mergers and acquisitions, securities, private equity and venture capital, and real estate transactions.
Ryan represents private equity funds, management teams and corporate clients in connection with private equity transactions, acquisitions and divestitures of assets and companies, and joint ventures. He has experience across a variety of industries, including the energy, healthcare, technology, software, and sports and entertainment industries.
Ryan is a member of the Association for Corporate Growth – Louisiana. He also serves on the Greater New Orleans, Inc. NextGen Council, which is composed of emerging business leaders from across the region.
Ryan received his law degree, magna cum laude, from Tulane University Law School where he was Order of the Coif and a member of the Tulane Law Review.
Experience
- Danos Group Holdings, LLC, an affiliate of firm client Danos, in its acquisition of 100% of the equity interests in AXion Logistics, LLC.
- Majestic Medical Solutions, a Baton Rouge-based provider of medical imaging equipment services, in its sale to Radon Medical Imaging, a national leader in imaging equipment maintenance and repair services.
- Purchaser of the ReFresh Project, a 60,000 sq. ft. 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 sq. ft. 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).
Education
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J.D., magna cum laude, from Tulane University Law School, 2019
- Member of the Tulane Law Review
- Order of the Coif
- B.A. from University of Chicago, 2016
