Ryan has over 14 years of experience providing tax consulting and compliance services, with an emphasis on real estate and alternative investment structures, including real estate investment funds, REITs, private equity funds and hedge funds.  He has a thorough understanding of the full life cycle of investments and entities, including formation, operation and restructuring, and disposition/liquidation, and the tax considerations and issues at each phase.

He has deep expertise with complex partnership taxation issues, including income and debt allocations, distribution waterfall calculations, carried interest considerations, and structuring and transactional analysis.

Ryan holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and a Master of Business Taxation from the University of Southern California.  He is a certified public accountant in California and Texas and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Texas Society of CPAs.