Profile
Rylee Wells represents acquirors, targets, private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies on a broad range of strategic transactions, including domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, debt and equity financings and other corporate matters. Her work spans across a wide variety of industries, including energy and natural resources, fintech, life sciences, media and entertainment and software and technology.
Rylee advises private equity sponsors, public companies, and private businesses on mergers and acquisitions, strategic transactions, debt financings, and corporate governance matters. She has experience across the full investment lifecycle, including platform acquisitions, add-on investments, carve-outs, leveraged financings, recapitalizations, and portfolio company exits.
Prior to joining Greenberg Traurig, Rylee advised clients on a broad range of corporate and transactional matters at another national law firm.
Concentrations
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Private equity transactions and investments
- Secured and unsecured debt financing transactions
תחומי התמחות
ניסיון מקצועי
- Mountaingate Capital in connection with its platform acquisition of North & Warren, LLC and subsequent add-on acquisitions of Interluxe Group, LLC and Quinn Communications, LLC.°
- The Nordstrom Family in connection with its going private transaction with Nordstrom, Inc. (NYSE) for $6.25 billion and related corporate governance matters.°
- Akamai Technologies, Inc., a cloud, security and content platform, in its $450 million acquisition of Noname Security, an Israeli application programming interface (API) security vendor.°
- Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited in its $230 million acquisition of RLS (USA) Inc., a radiopharmacy network operator distributing PET, SPECT and therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals.°
- Generation Bio, Co. (Nasdaq) in the sale to XOMA Royalty Corporation, a biotech royalty aggregator, including the negotiation of contingent value rights (CVRs) tied to certain payment events.°
- Bounteous Inc., a Mountaingate Capital portfolio company, in its add-on acquisitions of Demac Media, The Archer Group and FortyFour LLC and in its sale to New Mountain Capital.°
- Tinuiti Inc., a Mountaingate Capital portfolio company, in its sale to New Mountain Capital.°
- Dept Agency, a digital marketing agency based in Amsterdam, in its acquisitions of Melon Technologies and 3Q Digital.°
- Rockwood Equity Partners in its platform acquisition of Pase Environmental, a Colorado-based erosion control and stormwater remediation solutions provider.°
- SoFi in its $1.2 billion acquisition of payment processing solutions platform, Galileo Financial Technologies.°
- Vail Resorts in its acquisition of Peak Resorts, Inc., the public company owner of 17 ski resorts in the Northeastern, Mid-Atlantic and Midwestern United States for $264 million.°
- Blue Apron in the $50 million sale of its production and fulfillment business to FreshRealm and subsequent definitive merger agreement to be acquired by Wonder Group for $103 million.°
- Marley Spoon SE in its transition to an “asset light” company through the sale of its production and fulfillment business to FreshRealm for $24 million.°
- Brigade Energy Services, a well-servicing business backed by Turnbridge Capital Partners, in acquisitions of various oil field services businesses.°
- Pragiti, an SAP commerce cloud provider, in its sale to Digital Management Holdings, LLC.°
- UKG, Inc. in its acquisition of Great Place to Work Institute, Inc.°
- Mercer Road Corp. in its sale to Unity Software Inc.°
- XL Fleet Corp. in its acquisition of Spruce Power, the largest privately held owner and operator of residential rooftop solar systems in the United States, for $58 million in cash and the assumption of approximately $542 million of debt.
- XL Fleet Corp.’s sale of its legacy drive train business and pilot development agreement with the Department of Defense to The Shyft Group, Inc.°
- Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, a biopharmaceutical company developing treatments for human disease, in the sale of Xermelo to TerSera Therapeutics LLC for $159 million.°
- Aerospace and defense precision energetic system solutions provider in connection with its $200 million secured revolving credit facility and related acquisition financings.°
- Private lender in connection with $250 million secured term loan facility and $20 million secured revolving credit facility for a financial services company.°
- Investment holding company with investments across insurance, asset management, technology, sports & gaming, media & music, real estate and consumer landscapes in its $1 billion senior secured term loan facility and ongoing representation in connection with refinancings and subsequent amendments.°
- Mobile device protection and technology solutions company in connection with senior secured credit facility and subsequent refinancings and amendments.°
- Stash Financial, Inc. in connection with its $112 million Series F financing.°
- Sale of insider’s equity interests in clean energy investment company that develops and deploys net zero technologies to existing stockholder group for $209 million.°
°The above representations were handled by Ms. Wells prior to her joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
- Legal Intern, Blue Ocean Enterprises, Inc., 2012-2017
הישגים ותפקידי מפתח
- Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, “Ones to Watch,” Corporate Law and Corporate Governance and Compliance Law, 2026
- Member, Colorado Bar Association
- Member, Denver Bar Association
הכשרה מקצועית וכישורי שפה
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J.D., University of Denver Sturm College of Law
- Certificate in Corporate and Commercial Law
- B.A., University of Denver
- Colorado