Ryan Davis is a transactional and business lawyer with a focus on mergers & acquisitions, corporate counseling and sports, entertainment and sponsorship matters. Mr. Davis regularly represents public and private company clients, private business owners and sports teams, players and sponsors in connection with a broad range of corporate transactional matters and serves as a co-leader of the Firm’s Sports and Entertainment Group.

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. His sports and entertainment practice focuses on advising sports teams and their owners, players and sponsors as well as clients in the entertainment space in connection with their investments in and ownership of sports franchises, their naming rights, telecast rights, suite license, sponsorship, concession and other commercial agreements, their development and operation of entertainment districts and venues and ongoing legal and business counseling and includes representation of the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League in connection with their business operations and representation of the St. Louis Cardinals from Major League Baseball in connection with their Ballpark Village development and acquisition of the Memphis Redbirds minor league baseball franchise, among other matters.

Among other clients, Mr. Davis has provided legal counseling to Alticor Inc.; American Water Company; Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.; Arch Coal, Inc.; Brown Shoe Company, Inc.; Centene Corporation; Coin Acceptors, Inc.; Contractors Register, Inc.; Delaware North Companies; Emerson Electric Co.; ESCO Technologies Inc.; Furniture Brands International, Inc.; International Paper Company; MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc.; Michelin North America, Inc.; The Neiman Marcus Group, Inc.; New York Life Insurance Company; Orlando Pace, Kurt Warner and Roland Williams, former players from the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League; PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP; Ralcorp Holdings, Inc.; Scottrade, Inc.; the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League; the St. Louis Cardinals from Major League Baseball; Stifel Financial Corp.; TALX Corporation; Vanguard Animation, LLC; Windstream Corporation and World Wide Technology, Inc. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Davis worked in the corporate finance group of Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Inc., in the congressional office of U.S. Congressman James Talent of Missouri and for another law firm.