Ryan D. Heck

Partner He / Him / His

Minneapolis

Tel 612.371.2406
Fax 612.371.3207

Ryan Heck is a corporate attorney who focuses his practice on advising public and private companies, including private equity and Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)-owned companies, in mergers and acquisitions, sale processes and divestitures, investments, buy-and-build strategies, and other transformative transactions. Ryan regularly counsels private equity and corporate clients across a number of industries, including manufacturing, professional services, technology, and the life sciences.

Ryan serves as outside counsel to corporate clients and private equity portfolio companies by providing practical, solution-oriented advice in commercial transactions and general business matters. He also is the Hiring Partner for the firm's Minneapolis office.

Services

Representative Experience

Representative Matters

Ongoing representation of one of the country's largest Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) firms in executing its M&A strategy
Ongoing M&A counsel for Eurofins Scientific, a world leader in food, environmental, and pharma testing, in over a dozen acquisitions since 2022
Ongoing M&A counsel for Hub International Limited, a top five insurance broker, in numerous acquisitions and divestitures over the past decade

Represented a leading middle market private equity fund in acquisitions for, and eventual 2025 sale of, a foodservice equipment platform company
Lead counsel for Oxygen Service Company, an ESOP-owned provider of industrial and medical gases and automation equipment, in its 2025 sale to Meritus Gas Partners
Represented a Twin Cities private equity fund in add-on acquisitions for, and 2025 sale of, a leading providing of Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems (CEMS) and Data Acquisition Systems (DAS) services
Lead counsel for an ESOP-owned auto glass repair and replacement company based in the Twin Cities in its 2024 sale to a national platform
Lead counsel for Itasca Retail, a software-as-a-service provider for retailers, in its 2022 merger with Upshop
Lead counsel for Radius Global Market Research in multiple acquisitions and a transformative 2022 investment by a national private equity fund
Represented a publicly traded company in its 2021 sale
Represented a private equity-backed elastomeric and thermoplastic components company in executing its acquisition strategy and management incentive plans
Represented a manufacturer in the 2021 divestiture of its industrial blowers line of businesses to a U.K. company
Advised a Twin Cities pharmaceutical company in the sale of a late-stage anti-epilepsy drug development program to a global biopharmaceutical company
Represented Norwest Equity Partners in its 2020 sale of Surgical Information Systems to Accel-KKR
Advised Upsher-Smith Laboratories in the sale of its generic pharmaceuticals business to Sawai America, Inc., for $1.1 billion
Represented an international commercial real estate services company in its acquisitions and divestitures across the United States
Represented Norwest Equity Partners in the sale of Minnesota Rubber & Plastics to KKR & Co., LLP
Advised a microbiome and machine learning company founded out of the University of Minnesota in its sale to a medical device company specializing in home diagnostic testing kits

Professional Highlights

Professional Activities

Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), Minnesota Chapter and Committee Member for ACG's Upper Midwest Capital Connection

American Bar Association

Minnesota Bar Association

Recognition & Accomplishments

The Best Lawyers in America, "Ones to Watch," – Mergers and Acquisitions Law (Minneapolis), 2022-2024

Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal's, "40 Under 40" List, 2024

Board Memberships & Community Service

Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota, Volunteer Attorney

Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans, Volunteer Attorney

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Credentials

Education

University of Washington School of Law (J.D. 2011)
Executive Articles Editor, Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal
Entrepreneurial Law Clinic

Colorado State University (B.A., summa cum laude, 2008)

Admissions

Minnesota

Washington, Inactive

North Dakota, Inactive