Credentials
Education:
Bachelor of Arts, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Juris Doctor, West Virginia University College of Law
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Bar Admissions:
Georgia; West Virginia (Inactive); U.S. Tax Court
Ryan's practice covers a broad cross-section of federal, state, and local tax matters and includes the representation of taxpayers in tax controversies as well as tax planning. Ryan advises clients on numerous tax credit and alternative energy transactions, real estate transactions, joint ventures, partnerships, and restructurings. He also advises sponsors of, and investors in, all types of private investment vehicles
Publications
Tax Credits as Securities, 50 Sec. Reg. L. J. 57 (2022)
A Tour of Severance Taxes in the Age of Hydraulic Fracturing, 77 St. Tax Notes 787 (2015):
Originally Published: Sustainable Finance — A Blueprint for Severance Taxes in the Marcellus Shale, 7 Ky. J. Equine Agric. & Nat. Resources L. 297 (2015)
Cited by (University of New Mexico) Natural Resources Journal, 56 Nat. Resources J. 145 (2016)
In Agents We Trust — A Proposal for Material Participation of Trusts, 15 Wyo. L. Rev. 71 (2015) (Co-author)
Cited in Federal Income Taxation of Estates, Trusts, & Beneficiaries (Fourth Edition - Wolters Kluwer)
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Interstate Transfer Pricing and the Provocation of the Compact Clause, 46 Cumb. L. Rev. 103 (2015)
Cited by Arizona State Law Journal, 55 Ariz. St. L.J. 1 (2023)