Ryan D. Blicher

About Ryan D. Blicher

Ryan is a Partner in the Private Capital and M&A groups.  Ryan advises some of the largest and most sophisticated global private equity firms on formative cross-border and U.S. M&A transactions, including complex take-private acquisitions, leveraged buy-outs, strategic joint ventures, carve-out transactions and divestitures.  Ryan also advises large-cap public companies and their boards on global M&A transactions, unsolicited offers and takeovers, activism defense and on corporate governance matters impacting strategy and crisis management.  Ryan’s practice covers a broad range of industries, including technology, media and telecom, healthcare, consumer and retail, industrials, energy and natural resources, insurance, and lodging and real estate.

Ryan holds a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and a Certificate in Management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Ryan was the Managing Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law.

Ryan served as the inaugural chair of the Advisory Board of the New York Legal Assistance Group.

Recent work

• Apollo Global Management  in its $43 billion stock-for-stock merger with Athene
• Apollo Global Management in its $2.2 billion take-private acquisition of Diamond Resorts International
• Apollo Global Management in its $1.6 billion take-private acquisition of Outerwall, Inc. (n/k/a Coinstar)
• Apollo Global Management in its $1 billion take-private acquisition of Vectra (fka OM Group)
• Apollo Global Management in its acquisition of Cardenas Markets
• Apollo Global Management in its acquisition of El Rancho Supermercado
• Apollo Global Management in its acquisition of Tony’s Finer Foods
• Apollo Global Management in its acquisition of The Accent Family of Companies
• Apollo Global Management in its acquisition of Smart Start
• Apollo Global Management in its sale of Vacuumschmelze to Ara Partners
• Apollo Global Management in its $991 million investments in a joint venture with Sony Music Group, an affiliate of Sony Group Corporation, in connection with its purchase of a portfolio of legendary music assets
• Apollo Global Management portfolio company ADT Inc. in its $381 million acquisition of Defenders Inc.
• Apollo Global Management portfolio company Redbox in its combination with Seaport Global Acquisition Corp., a publicly-traded special purpose acquisition company
• Apollo Global Management global alternative asset manager MidCap Financial in its $3.6 billion acquisition of loans managed by Mubadala GE Capital, a joint venture lending business between General Electric Capital Corporation and Abu Dhabi's Mubadala Development Company
• Apollo Global Management in its acquisition of Phoenix Services
• Apollo Global Management in its investment in Cimpress
• Apollo Global Management in its investment in U.S. Acute Care Solutions
• Apollo Global Management in its investment in Express Energy
• Searchlight Capital Partners and its portfolio companies in various matters, including in its acquisition, alongside ForgeLight, of a majority stake in Univision
• General Atlantic, in the sale of its portfolio company EN Engineering to Kohlberg & Company
• Translate Bio in its $3.2 billion sale to Sanofi
• Grupo Salinas in its $2.5 billion sale of Iusacell to AT&T
• Honeywell International in the spin-off of its $1.37 billion turbochargers business into a separate publicly traded company (Garrett Motion)
• Clear Secure, Inc. in its $470 million initial public offering, lead managed by Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Allen & Co and Wells Fargo Securities
• Fortress Principals in connection with the sale of Fortress Investment Group to SoftBank Group
• Roark Capital Group portfolio company Driven Brands in its acquisition of International Car Wash Group
• Roark Capital Group in its acquisition of Great Expressions Dental Centers
• Gamut Capital Management and its portfolio companies in various matters, including JPW Industries in its acquisition of Baileigh Industrial Holdings
• Oak Hill Capital Partners in its acquisition of Charter Nex
• MacAndrews & Forbes Incorporated and certain of its affiliates in the sale of its portfolio company, HUMVEE®manufacturer, AM General to KPS Capital Partners
• South Mountain Merger Corporation, in its merger with Billtrust
  Filament Brands, a portfolio company of Centre Partners, in its acquisition of Lifetime Brands

*This list includes work that Ryan completed while at a prior firm.