Ryan Zielinski
Deputy General Counsel
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As Deputy General Counsel at MLG Capital, Ryan is responsible for overseeing the legal and compliance aspects of the firm’s Legacy Fund. In addition to assisting deal teams in completing acquisitions, divestitures and refinancings within the Legacy Fund, Ryan focuses his time on securities and regulatory compliance, corporate governance issues, and other general corporate matters related to the Legacy Fund’s operations.
Ryan graduated with honors from the University of Wisconsin – Madison with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting. He later graduated with high honors from the University of Chicago Law School. After law school, Ryan clerked on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and worked in private practice as a corporate lawyer representing buyers and sellers in mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions and assisting businesses of varying sizes in general corporate and commercial contract matters.