Patrick Ragan Richard
Partner
Ragan Richard practices in the area of corporate transactions, business, real estate and finance, focusing on business and finance transactions ranging from acquisitions, divestitures and mergers to corporate governance and organization for large and small companies. He represents clients across diverse industries, including agricultural cooperatives, real estate investors and franchisees, learning about their businesses and assisting with their growth, planning and progress. His background in biomedical engineering informs his understanding of business challenges and couples with his aptitude to promote creative solutions through problem-solving strategies. Ragan considers the friendships developed with clients one of his practices’ greatest rewards.
Experience
- Representation of an agricultural marketing cooperative composed of sugar cane growers, landowners and mills in its vertical integration into sugar refining through the formation, negotiation and development of Louisiana Sugar Refining, LLC, an entity owned by a large segment of the Louisiana sugar industry and Cargill, Incorporated.
- Representation of Popeyes largest franchisee in the acquisition, development, financing and operation of over 160 quick service restaurants.
- Representation of a public utility provider in the development, engineering, procurement and construction of numerous substations and switching stations throughout the southern region.
- Representation of a nonprofit organization in its public private partnership with Louisiana State University in the transformative development of over 28 acres on the LSU campus known as the Nicholson Gateway Project.
- Representation of multiple clients in the acquisition, development, financing and operation of over 2 billion dollars’ worth of multifamily apartment complexes, hotels and condominiums throughout the southeast region.