Overview
Ryan Sacra helps businesses navigate corporate transactions, securities matters, and strategic growth initiatives so they can pursue opportunities, raise capital, and achieve their long-term objectives.
His practice encompasses a broad range of corporate and securities matters, including business formation and planning, joint ventures, public and private securities offerings, private equity financing, securities regulation, and ongoing compliance obligations. Ryan advises clients at every stage of the business life cycle, providing practical counsel tailored to their operational and strategic goals.
A significant portion of Ryan’s practice focuses on transactional matters within the energy industry. He represents companies in acquisitions, dispositions, and other complex business transactions and has advised both sponsors and conflicts committees in connection with dropdown transactions involving master limited partnerships. By combining corporate, transactional, and securities law experience, Ryan helps clients structure transactions efficiently while managing legal and regulatory risk.
Ryan’s clients range from privately held businesses to Fortune 500 companies and operate across a variety of industries, including energy, communications, venture capital, aviation, manufacturing, software development, and retail. His broad industry experience allows him to provide business-focused advice informed by the unique challenges and opportunities facing each client.
Credentials
Education
- University of Oklahoma College of Law, 1996 (J.D.)
- University of Oklahoma, 1993 (B.B.A.)
- Handled the negotiation of contribution agreements on behalf of an NYSE sponsor in a series of drop downs of equity interest to its majority-owned NYSE MLP in three separate transactions valued in excess of $850 million.
- Handled the sale of undivided oil and gas interest of independent oil and gas company in a transaction valued in excess of $620 million.
- Handled the combination and reorganization of two private manufacturing companies into a single organization valued in excess of $200 million through a strategic non-cash transaction.
- Handled the purchase of equity interest of natural gas gathering and processing company valued in excess of $300 million for an NYSE company.
- Handled the negotiation of contribution and organization documents with private equity sponsor on behalf of an independent oil and gas company involving capital commitments in excess of $250 million.
- Handled the negotiation of contribution and organization documents of pipeline joint venture on behalf of an NYSE company involving capital commitments in excess of $190 million.
- Represented the conflicts committee of NYSE MLP in connection with the drop down by its sponsor of equity interest in a transaction valued in excess of $52 million.
- Chambers USA, Oklahoma, Corporate Law, Band 2, 2017-2026
- Martindale-Hubbell, AV Preeminent
- Best Lawyers in America, 2018-2026
- Oklahoma Super Lawyers, Rising Star, M&A
- Tulsa County Bar Association, Corporate Counsel Section
- Oklahoma Bar Association
- New York City Bar Association
- American Bar Association, Business Section; Legal Opinion Section