Ryan C. Brunton

As a member of Husch Blackwell’s Financial Services & Capital Markets team, Ryan represents lenders, investors and developers in a wide variety of financing and real estate transactions. Ryan advises clients on the structuring and compliance components of traditional and tax-advantaged financing transactions, as well as legal and business issues arising during the course of negotiations and closing. He has extensive experience in asset-based, real estate-secured and mezzanine financing transactions, and advises national consumer and commercial lenders with respect to loan documentation and compliance issues.

In addition, Ryan regularly represents clients in transactions utilizing state and federal New Markets Tax Credits (NMTC) and historic rehabilitation tax credits. He also counsels clients with respect to acquisitions, acquisition financing, construction financing, economic development incentive programs and commercial leasing transactions. Ryan’s finance work has included:

• Represented a federal historic rehabilitation tax credit investor with respect to an investment in a $260 million luxury hotel development in Chicago.
• Represented a federal NMTC investor with respect to investments in the construction and expansion of two yogurt production facilities in Vermont and Arizona, with aggregate project development budgets of approximately $90 million.
• Represented a federal NMTC investor with respect to investments in a $40 million mixed-used development adjacent to the University of Louisville campus in Louisville, Ky.
• Represented a commercial lender in connection with a $43 million senior secured credit facility (revolving line of credit, term loan and construction loan) provided to a coal mining operation in eastern Kentucky.