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Ryan Brunton
Ryan C. Brunton
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Financial Services & Capital Markets
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  • Kansas City, MO
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Ryan C. Brunton

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Financial Services & Capital Markets
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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.
Ryan also has experience as a speaker and author on finance and tax credit law matters.

Professional Associations and Memberships

  • American Bar Association
  • Kansas Bar Association
  • The Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association
  • The Missouri Bar

Civic Involvement

  • Crittenton Children’s Center, Board of Directors, 2008-present
    • Secretary, 2012-2013
    • Vice Chair, 2013-2014
    • Chair, 2014-present
  • St. John Chrysostom Oratorical Festival, Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation, Co-chair, 2008-2013

News & Insights

  • Working Out of Troubled NMTC Transactions, Novogradac New Markets Tax Credit Fall Conference
  • New Markets Tax Credits: Another Way to Attract Investors and Developers, The National Association of State and Local Equity Funds Annual Conference
  • Introduction to New Markets Tax Credits Transactions, University of Missouri-Kansas City Bloch School of Management Community Economic Development Certificate Program
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Experience

  • Represented a federal NMTC investor with respect to investments in the construction of a refrigerated produce processing facility in Georgia.
  • Represented a federal NMTC investor in connection with an investment in the construction of a $185 million silicon smelting facility in Mississippi.
  • 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.
  • Represented a commercial lender in connection with the development of a $43 million office building project in Dubuque, Iowa.
  • Represented a commercial lender in connection with the development of a $40 million medical facility project in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
  • Represented a consortium of non-profit organizations in connection with the development of a $13 million early childhood and family education facility in Kansas City, Kan.
  • Represented a non-profit organization in connection with the $10 million rehabilitation of historic buildings in Kansas City, Mo., utilizing federal NMTCs as well as Missouri and federal historic tax credits.

News & Insights

December 5, 2017 In The News Journal of Tax Credits: NMTC-HTC Twinning Back After HBH Slowdown External Link
Financial Services & Capital Markets
October 21, 2015 Speaking Engagement Working Out of Troubled NMTC Transactions, Novogradac New Markets Tax Credit Fall Conference Chicago, IL
Financial Services & Capital Markets
September 18, 2015 Speaking Engagement New Markets Tax Credits: Another Way to Attract Investors and Developers, The National Association of State and Local Equity Funds Annual Conference Kansas City, MO
Financial Services & Capital Markets
June 6, 2015 Speaking Engagement Introduction to New Markets Tax Credits Transactions, University of Missouri-Kansas City Bloch School of Management Community Economic Development Certificate Program Kansas City, MO
Financial Services & Capital Markets
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  • Industry Focus
    • Financial Services & Capital Markets
  • Practice Areas
    • Banking & Finance
    • Corporate
    • Taxation
    • Tax Credits
  • Admissions
    • Missouri, 2002
    • Kansas, 2003
  • Education
    • J.D., University of Kansas School of Law, 2002
      • Kansas Law Review
    • M.B.A., University of Kansas, 2002
    • B.S., Political Science, Oklahoma State University, 1998, cum laude
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