Ryan Johnson Bio

Ryan is a nationally-recognized lawyer for healthcare innovation. Ryan helps his clients develop and launch innovative business models designed to improve healthcare quality, accessibility, and affordability. He serves as outside general counsel for digital health companies, healthcare providers, and life science companies that are transforming healthcare through innovation and cutting-edge science and technology. He regularly advises investors, senior executives, and corporate boards on the strategic threats and opportunities arising from emerging technologies and new laws and regulations, especially those affecting the healthcare industry. Ryan has considerable experience advising clients on a variety of regulatory and corporate matters and in structuring and negotiating healthcare transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, licensing agreements, and financings. Ryan frequently writes and lectures about issues emerging from the intersection of law, science, and technology. He has contributed many pro bono hours to charitable organizations focused on protecting the environment and advancing the frontiers of science, technology, and medicine. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of ScienceDebate, the Board of Directors of the Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness, and the Advisory Council of The Planetary Society, which was founded by Carl Sagan. Ryan previously studied European healthcare innovation as German Marshall Fund Memorial Fellow. Ryan co-chairs the firm’s Life Sciences Group.