Ryan M. Katz
Partner
Areas of Focus
- Corporate & Finance
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Investment Management
- Hedge Funds
- Tax
- Royalty Monetization
- Energy & Infrastructure
- Joint Ventures & Strategic Alliances
- Oilfield Services
- Technology
- Fund Formation
- Fund Manager Transactions
- Institutional Investors
- Global Investment Adviser Regulatory
- Seeding Transactions
- Emerging Markets Funds Transactions
- Real Estate & Infrastructure Funds
- Energy & Natural Resources Funds
- Private Equity Transactions
- Oil & Gas
- Private Equity
- Private Capital
- Handles domestic and international corporate transactions.
- Also advises on corporate governance and general corporate matters.
- Has specific experience with pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical clients.
Ryan Katz focuses his practice on corporate transactions for private equity and hedge fund clients, including mergers and acquisitions, advising on portfolio company investments and guiding fund sponsors and managers in forming new funds. He also advises clients on a variety of financial transactions involving their investment activities, including acquisitions and dispositions of portfolio investments and corporate financing transactions.
Ryan has market-leading experience in royalty-rights transactions, particularly in the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical sectors. In addition, Ryan has worked with many of the leading investors in investment fund seeding transactions.
Ryan handles domestic and international corporate transactions including:
- Public and private mergers and acquisitions
- Private equity and hedge fund investments
- Venture capital transactions
- Debt financings
- Joint ventures and strategic alliances
- Royalty monetization transactions
- Investment fund seeding transactions.
- Representing a life sciences-focused investment fund in multiple pharmaceutical royalty acquisition transactions.
- Advising a life sciences-focused investment fund in a credit facility secured by pharmaceutical royalties.
- Assisting a consortium of hedge funds in connection with a private placement in a New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)-listed real estate investment trust.
- Counseling a private equity fund in the sale of its portfolio company in the ophthalmic space to an international pharmaceutical company.
- Providing advice to an investment fund in a credit facility secured by interests in pharmaceutical portfolio companies, and royalty and milestone payments.
EducationJ.D., Emory University School of Law, with honors, 2001
B.A., University of Michigan, 1998
J.D., Emory University School of Law, with honors, 2001
B.A., University of Michigan, 1998
Bar AdmissionsNew York
New York
