Ryan S. Quinn

Partner | Corporate

About

Ryan Quinn partners with organizations to provide practical legal advice and business solutions to complex problems. Mr. Quinn is a corporate attorney providing comprehensive legal and strategic business services to public and private companies. Mr. Quinn also provides outside general counsel services to public and private companies of a variety of sizes.

  • Mr. Quinn was General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of PGT Innovations, Inc., a $2B public company traded on the New York Stock Exchange, and Senior Vice President, Co-General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of LendingTree, Inc., a midsize public company traded on NASDAQ. Including Mr. Quinn’s executive tenure, he has over 10 years experience in-house strategically advising boards of directors and senior executives on a variety of matters, including public policy issues; M&A, including M&A strategy and integration; securities; governance; equity investments; regulatory compliance; labor and employment; benefits; executive compensation; real estate; and litigation and dispute resolution. Throughout his career, Mr. Quinn has extensive experience working on M&A, commercial transactions, public company governance, and general corporate matters.

    Prior to moving in-house, Mr. Quinn was an associate in the Corporate and Securities Practice Group at Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP, and an associate in the Business Law Unit at Harter Secrest & Emery LLP, focusing on M&A, general corporate and securities matters.

Practices

  • Commercial Transactions

  • Mergers and Acquisitions

  • Securities

Admissions

  • Ohio

  • New York

Education

  • Case Western Reserve University School of Law, J.D., Cum Laude, 2009

  • Baldwin-Wallace University, B.A., Business Administration and Political Science, 2006

Awards

  • Legal Elite NOTABLE General Counsel – Florida Trend, 2023

  • Top 100 Corporate Counsel Award – OnCon Icon Awards, 2021

Experience

  • PGT Innovations, Inc. (NYSE: PGTI)

  • LendingTree, Inc. (NASDAQ: TREE)

  • Benesch Coplan Friedlander & Aronoff LLP

  • Harter Secrest & Emery LLP

Representative Transactions

Mergers & Acquisitions

  • Represented PGT Innovations, Inc. in its $3.1 billion sale to MITER Brands.

  • Represented Nordson Corporation in its $705 million acquisition of Vention Medical’s Advanced Technologies business, a leading designer, developer, and manufacturer of minimally invasive interventional delivery devices, catheters, and advanced components for the global medical technology market.

  • Represented LendingTree in its $370 million acquisition of QuoteWizard.com, LLC, one of the largest insurance comparison marketplaces in the online insurance advertising market.

  • Represented Nordson Corporation in its $180 million acquisition of Avalon Laboratories Holding Corp., a leading designer and manufacturer of highly specialized catheters and medical tubing products for cardiology, pulmonology, and related applications.

  • Represented Nordson Corporation in its €135 million cross-border acquisition of Kreyenborg GmbH and BKG Bruckmann & Kreyenborg Granuliertechnik GmbH, leading designers and manufacturers of polymer processing products.

  • Represented LendingTree in its $105 million acquisition of Value Holding Inc., a personal finance website offering consumers analysis on a variety of financial topics.

  • Represented a NASDAQ listed company with its €46.2 million cross-border acquisition of a German manufacturer of automated X-ray inspection equipment, and its global subsidiaries.

  • Represented a private equity fund with $25 million cross-border acquisition of U.S. and Canadian services provider for the automotive industry.

  • Represented a NASDAQ listed company with its €13.5 million cross-border acquisition of a German manufacturer of micro-dispensing systems.

Capital Markets

  • Represented a financial holding company in a $40 million registered secondary offering of its common stock.

  • Advised board and management of a NASDAQ listed healthcare information technology company in connection with institutional debt and equity financings.

  • Represented LendingTree, Inc. in its private offering of $500 million aggregate principal amount of its convertible senior notes.

  • Represented PGT Innovations, Inc. in connection with its Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of $575 million aggregate principal amount of senior notes.

Presentations

  • Panel Member, Presented “Lessons Learned from Corporate Scandal: The GC’s Role as the Steward of Ethics.” Consero General Counsel Forum (November 2023)

  • Speaker, Presented “Securities and Governance Overview 2020 – Hot Topics and Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic” for the Chief Legal Officer Certificate Program.” OnConferences (June 2020)

  • Panel Member, Presented “Looking Ahead to the 2020 Proxy Season and Other Current M&A Topics” as part of a panel at the 2019 ACC Annual Meeting. Association of Corporate Counsel (October 2019)

  • Panel Member, Presented “Cross-Border Transactions: A Comparison of Critical Deal Terms in Privately Negotiated Transactions” as part of a panel at the 2016 ACC Annual Meeting. Association of Corporate Counsel (October 2016)

  • Panel Member, Presented “Due Diligence of Real Estate Assets in Connection with Mergers and Acquisition Transactions” as part of a panel at the 2015 ACC Annual Meeting. Association of Corporate Counsel (October 2015)

  • Speaker, Presented “Mergers and Acquisitions: Indemnification Issues” for an Ohio State Bar Association webcast. Ohio State Bar Association (October 2014)