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James S. Ryan, III

James S. Ryan

Partner, Dallas
214.953.5801
jryan@jw.com
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Practice Experience Recognition & Accolades Community Involvement Client Results

Practice Areas

  • Corporate & Securities
  • Healthcare

Experience

  • Corporate Governance
  • Family Office
  • Family-Owned Business
  • Healthcare Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Mergers, Acquisitions, & Divestitures
  • Venture Capital & Emerging Companies | JWStartup

Biography

James “Jim” S. Ryan, III is an experienced transactional lawyer specializing in mergers & acquisitions and private equity transactions. His practice regularly helps clients with matters that include business acquisitions and divestitures, capital formation and investments, and joint venture transactions. He has significant experience handling transactions for clients engaged in healthcare services as well as representing clients in the oil & gas, manufacturing, distribution, telecommunications and business services industries.

Jim works with clients from the earliest stages of their development through significant liquidity events. This allows him to bring a broad-based perspective to the matters he handles. His clients have ranged from newly formed entities, funded by seed capital or venture capital, to public companies with market capitalization in the billions of dollars.

Education

B.B.A., University of Notre Dame
J.D., University of Virginia School of Law

Bar Admissions

Texas, 1982

Practice Experience Recognition & Accolades Community Involvement Client Results
  • Represented Dallas-based telemedicine company through seven rounds of venture capital financing and in connection with multiple acquisitions
  • Represented a physician staffing company in a sale to publicly held strategic buyer
  • Represented a developer and operator of physician-owned surgical hospitals in developing ownership structures and raising capital
  • Represented a publicly held physician practice management and surgery center business in connection with the simultaneous acquisition of two businesses in the same field — one privately held and one publicly held
  • Led a team of lawyers representing a Dallas-based investment firm in raising capital and making investments in oil and gas assets
  • Represented a publicly held retail services business in sale to its largest customer, also a publicly held business
  • Represented both purchasers and sellers of long-term care facilities, home health agencies and hospice agencies
  • Coordinated a sale in bankruptcy by a publicly held healthcare services business — including interests in over 20 surgery centers jointly owned by our client and physician groups — to a publicly held surgery center company
  • Negotiated the sale of a baked goods business based in Texas to a Colombian conglomerate
  • 2017 Dealmaker, Dallas Business Journal
  • Super Lawyer, Thomson Reuters, 2003-2013
  • Best Lawyer in Dallas, D Magazine
  • The Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White Inc.)
    • Corporate Law, 2008-2021
    • Mergers & Acquisitions Law, 2009-2021
    • Healthcare Law, 2021
  • The Catholic Foundation, Board of Trustees – Former Member
  • Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Society, Inc.
    • General Counsel
    • Board of Directors, Chairman
  • Ursuline Academy of Dallas Foundation
    • Former Member, Board of Directors
    • Past Chairman
  • Diocese of Dallas – Strategic Planning Committee for Diocesan Schools, Executive Committee Member
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Practice Experience

  • Represented Dallas-based telemedicine company through seven rounds of venture capital financing and in connection with multiple acquisitions
  • Represented a physician staffing company in a sale to publicly held strategic buyer
  • Represented a developer and operator of physician-owned surgical hospitals in developing ownership structures and raising capital
  • Represented a publicly held physician practice management and surgery center business in connection with the simultaneous acquisition of two businesses in the same field — one privately held and one publicly held
  • Led a team of lawyers representing a Dallas-based investment firm in raising capital and making investments in oil and gas assets
  • Represented a publicly held retail services business in sale to its largest customer, also a publicly held business
  • Represented both purchasers and sellers of long-term care facilities, home health agencies and hospice agencies
  • Coordinated a sale in bankruptcy by a publicly held healthcare services business — including interests in over 20 surgery centers jointly owned by our client and physician groups — to a publicly held surgery center company
  • Negotiated the sale of a baked goods business based in Texas to a Colombian conglomerate

Recognition & Accolades

  • 2017 Dealmaker, Dallas Business Journal
  • Super Lawyer, Thomson Reuters, 2003-2013
  • Best Lawyer in Dallas, D Magazine
  • The Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White Inc.)
    • Corporate Law, 2008-2021
    • Mergers & Acquisitions Law, 2009-2021
    • Healthcare Law, 2021

Community Involvement

  • The Catholic Foundation, Board of Trustees – Former Member
  • Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Society, Inc.
    • General Counsel
    • Board of Directors, Chairman
  • Ursuline Academy of Dallas Foundation
    • Former Member, Board of Directors
    • Past Chairman
  • Diocese of Dallas – Strategic Planning Committee for Diocesan Schools, Executive Committee Member

Practice Areas

  • Corporate & Securities
  • Healthcare

Experience

  • Corporate Governance
  • Family Office
  • Family-Owned Business
  • Healthcare Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Mergers, Acquisitions, & Divestitures
  • Venture Capital & Emerging Companies | JWStartup

News

  • ‘The Best Lawyers in America’ Honors 164 Jackson Walker Attorneys in 2021 Edition, Including 9 “Lawyers of the Year” and 25 “Ones to Watch”
  • ‘The Best Lawyers in America’ Honors 109 Jackson Walker Attorneys in 2020 Edition, With Eight Named “Lawyers of the Year”
  • Jackson Walker Represents IOG Gonzales 1835 LLC in Sale of Certain Eagle Ford Properties
  • Best Lawyers in America Recognizes 98 Jackson Walker Attorneys
  • Best Lawyers in America Recognizes 94 Jackson Walker Attorneys
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