Ryan Davis

Ryan Davis is the managing partner of the Firm’s St. Louis office and a co-leader of the Firm’s Sports and Entertainment Group and maintains an active mergers & acquisitions, corporate and sports and entertainment practice. Mr. Davis is a transactional and business lawyer who regularly represents public and private company clients, private business owners, sports teams, owners, players and sponsors and a variety of other clients, with a particular focus in the financial services and sports and entertainment industries. He is recognized by Chambers & Partners USA as one of the leading sports attorneys in the United States and by The Best Lawyers in America as one of the leading mergers & acquisitions, corporate and sports attorneys in the country.

His sports and entertainment practice focuses on advising sports teams and their owners, players, sponsors and other business partners as well as other clients in the sports and entertainment industry in connection with their investments in and ownership of sports franchises, their naming rights, sponsorship (including jersey and gaming industry sponsorship), media, suite license, concession and other commercial agreements, their development and operation of entertainment districts and venues, their litigation, arbitration and investigation matters, and ongoing legal and business counseling. His M&A and corporate counseling practice focuses on advising clients in connection with their merger, acquisition and divestiture transactions; their joint venture and other strategic transactions; their corporate governance and formation matters; their contractual matters; and their general business and securities law counseling matters. Mr. Davis has advised clients with respect to structuring, fiduciary duty and other corporate and securities law matters in connection with their merger, acquisition and divestiture transactions, joint venture and other strategic transactions and other investment transactions.