Experience
Ryan Schildkraut practices in the areas of Emerging Companies & Entrepreneurial Services, Mergers & Acquisitions, Technology & Intellectual Property Transactions, Corporate Finance, Franchise Law, and General Corporate law. Ryan represents both established companies and entrepreneurs on a wide range of corporate finance and transactional matters, including business formation and fund raising, corporate governance, review and negotiation of business contracts, real estate, and regulatory compliance.
Some of Ryan's responsibilities include:
- Assisting various entrepreneurial clients with choice of entity and formation issues.
- Providing counsel to directors and officers regarding corporate governance matters, including drafting resolutions, minutes of board meetings, scripts for shareholder meeting and advising on fiduciary responsibilities.
- Assisting various clients with issues arising under Minnesota and Delaware corporate law; performing legal research and drafting memoranda summarizing results of research.
- Performing extensive due diligence on target companies in buy-side transactions; responding to due diligence inquiries and drafting carefully worded disclosure schedules in sell-side transactions.
- Drafting and negotiating terms of shareholder agreements and LLC agreements.
- Drafting and negotiating option agreements, warrant agreements, restricted stock agreements and other similar securities documents.
- Drafting and negotiating terms of supply agreements, customer agreements and other vendor agreements.
- Drafting and negotiating terms of commercial leases, landlord consents, subordination and non-disturbance agreements, and other real estate documents.
- Drafting and negotiating terms of promissory notes, guaranties, security agreements, pledge agreements and other lending documents.
- Drafting and negotiating terms of executive employment agreements, independent contractor agreements, non-competition agreements and confidentiality agreements.
- Coordinating with local counsel on cross-state and cross-border transactions.
- Drafting legal opinions required in connection with M&A and corporate finance transactions.
- Designing template documents for multiple life settlement programs; creating policies and procedures to ensure regulatory compliance.
Prior to attending law school, Ryan completed his Bachelors of Business Administration with a focus on Information Technology Management. He has experience in systems and application development and technology audits. Ryan's strong skill set in risk management and business technology consulting is a valuable resource to clients in high-tech industries.
While in law school, Ryan served as an editor of the Minnesota Journal of International Law. He also studied international law at Monash University Law School in Melbourne, Australia, and the University of Canterbury School of Law in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Bar Admissions
Minnesota, 2007
North Dakota, 2009