Ron Schuler Email & Phone Number

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Charleston, Wv, Us

Named Best Lawyers' Pittsburgh M&A Lawyer of the Year three times. A corporate, securities and commercial transactions lawyer with extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, private placement financings, and numerous types of contracts for clients within the cryptocurrency, IT outsourcing, oil & gas, software, biotechnology, and higher education sectors.As member-in-charge of the Pittsburgh office:* Presided over the three highest revenue years of the Pittsburgh office since inception;* Successfully recruited senior level attorneys from AMLAW 100 and 200 law firms; and* Improved diversity within the office through recruiting.Served as outside North American division counsel for division of a global, billion-dollar conglomerate.Represented buyers and sellers in middle market private equity transactions. Represented a roll-up acquiror in a series of acquisitions, followed by a private equity sale, that were collectively named "Private Equity Deal of the Year" by ACG Columbus.Served as outside general counsel for a university.Worked closely with in-house corporate, regulatory and securities teams for a global cryptocurrency company: 5+ years experience leading M&A projects; advising on the development of new trading products; reviewing client terms and conditions; drafting and negotiating digital asset loan documents and other financial transactions; advising on market maker and liquidity programs; making presentations on blockchain/digital asset issues to regulators; representing client in investment in a digital asset investment fund.Served as corporate/securities counsel to an entertainment-industry DAO, and an Ethereum scaling project.Served as panel chair in an AAA arbitration regarding an oil & gas dispute.Chair of firm's Securities Law Practice Group and co-chair of the firm's Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Group.

Books by Ron SchulerTHE STEEL BAR: PITTSBURGH LAWYERS AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA (Marquez Press, 2019), a history of Pittsburgh lawyers, their role in the nurturing of the American Republic, the Industrial Revolution in Pittsburgh, and the federalization of America during the 20th century.ANGELEÑOS: L.A.'S GOLDEN AGE (a Novel) (Marquez Press 2020): A grandson of Mexican immigrants, Ron Schuler draws deeply upon his family background in his first novel to tell a fictionalized tale of two families who arrive in East Los Angeles in 1919. A descendant of both families—half-Mexican, half-Anglo—returns to the West Coast and searches for his roots amid the Golden Age of L.A. itself. In the process, he uncovers tragic secrets that were never meant to be exposed and discovers the extent to which identities can be fabricated and reimagined in a city in which image is everything, and truth is ephemeral.Work in progress: SEVEN BALLPARKS IN PITTSBURGH: THE CULTURE AND COMMERCE OF URBAN SPACES AND BASEBALL.

Law and consulting services, principally for companies in the oil & gas, Internet, security technology and biotechnology industries.

No. 2 executive at Appalachian Basin oil & gas exploration and production company, with supervisory responsibility for corporate finance transactions, oil and gas transactions, joint ventures, accounting, leasing and land matters, litigation matters, and energy derivatives contracts.PGMT Energy was originally formed as a subsidiary of Sithe Energies, and grew from 1989 to 2004 through investment in drilling partnerships, drilling wells with joint venture partners, and acquiring existing wells and acreage. In 2004, management acquired the Company from Sithe. By 2006, its extensive asset base included approximately 1,300 natural gas and oil wells producing 5 million decatherms per day, comprehensive production capabilities and infrastructure (including fully-integrated in-house operations conducting the Company’s marketing, gathering, transmission, production and development activities), thousands of mineral leasehold acres for future development, and a significant network of pipeline gathering systems in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The Company was sold by the management group to EXCO Resources in 2006 for $115 million.

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Partner in Corporate Services group; practiced in areas of corporate finance & governance, mergers & acquisitions, public and private securities, and biotechnology corporate and commercial matters.Acted as special advisor to the board of directors of a regional, publicly-traded bank holding company, with regard to securities and anti-takeover matters.Served as outside counsel to California-based venture firm making technology investments. Served on firm recruiting committee, and as head of the Pittsburgh summer associate program.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

Corporate finance lawyer in Pittsburgh and London offices; associate from 1988 to 1996.As founding co-chair of the firm's Biotechnology Group (2000-2003), led the firm in achieving brand as local Pittsburgh leader in biotechnology; in a 2002 national accounting firm survey conducted in Pittsburgh market among potential clients, “biotechnology” was the single area in which the firm improved in rankings. Acted as outside general counsel for Ansoft Corporation, an engineering design automation software company, from its start-up stage to its initial public offering (1996); and continued to work with the company as outside general counsel on its secondary offering (1998), its Securities Exchange Act compliance (including all disclosure and analyst guidance issues), and five major acquisitions, as well as supervising its intellectual property and licensing work.Represented the City of Pittsburgh and related entities from 1993 to 2000 with regard to the matters culminating in the construction of PNC Park, including: serving as one of the lead negotiators on the lease and construction agreements; designing the auction of the Pittsburgh Pirates on behalf of the sale optionholder, the Urban Redevelopment Authority, and working on the eventual sale of the team in 1996; and authoring the urban planning justification for the location of PNC Park.Served as lead counsel on first oil & gas acquisition as early as 1991; represented Sithe Energies in all of its Western Pennsylvania acquisitions, as well as related financings and a variety of oil and gas transactions, such as drilling joint ventures, farmouts, and transmission and gas marketing arrangements, during the 1990s.

Juris Doctor

Ba, Cum Laude, English

Foreign Student - English Language And Literature