Practice Expertise

  • Business Law
  • Commercial Contracting
  • Emerging Growth Companies and Venture Capital
  • Health & Life Sciences

Areas of Practice

  • Business Law
  • Commercial Contracting
  • Emerging Growth Companies and Venture Capital
  • Health & Life Sciences
  • General Corporate and Outside General ...
  • Health Care Transactions
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Private Equity
  • Privately Held Businesses
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Profile

Experienced, strategic and composed private equity and M&A attorney

Ryan Haas represents private equity funds and their portfolio companies as well as Fortune 500 companies and other privately and publicly held businesses in a variety of transactional matters. He has extensive experience handling transactions with values ranging from under $10 million to in excess of $1 billion and advises on:

  • Mergers and acquisitions (M&A)
  • Leveraged buyouts
  • Growth equity investments
  • General corporate matters

Praised by clients for his knowledge of the market and excellent legal and business judgment, Ryan excels at both the technical and strategic considerations that go into private equity and M&A transactions. Cool under pressure, Ryan delivers solutions-oriented advice that gets deals done.

Before joining Quarles, Ryan was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Chicago.

Bar Admissions

  • Illinois
  • Wisconsin

Education

  • University of Wisconsin - Madison (M.Acc., 2004)
    • Accounting
  • University of Wisconsin - Madison (B.B.A., 2003)
    • Major: Accounting
  • University of Wisconsin Law School (J.D., cum laude, 2008)

Areas of Practice

  • Business Law
  • Commercial Contracting
  • Emerging Growth Companies and Venture Capital
  • Health & Life Sciences
  • General Corporate and Outside General Counsel Services
  • Health Care Transactions
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Private Equity
  • Privately Held Businesses

Professional Career



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Seminar

  • Business Law Training: Everything Must Go!: Sales of Assets in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Cases

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