Ryan C. Day, Partner
Ryan C. Day is a founding partner of KatzDay, with a particular focus on representing national and regional homebuilders and developers. The firm represents purchasers, sellers, investors, and developers in business and real estate transactional matters — including business formation, acquisition, disposition, financing, leasing, and entitlement of commercial real estate.
Before founding KatzDay, Ryan served as Vice President and General Counsel of Hogan Companies, LLC, providing legal support across all aspects of its real estate brokerage and development businesses, including the acquisition, sale, financing, entitlement, and leasing of development projects.
Earlier in his career, Ryan was a partner on the Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights team at the national law firm LeClairRyan, A Professional Corporation, where he regularly advised creditors and other parties in bankruptcy proceedings and creditors' rights litigation in state and federal courts. He was recognized as a "Rising Star" in Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights by Virginia Super Lawyers Magazine and in Business Bankruptcy by Washington D.C. Super Lawyers Magazine.
Prior to LeClairRyan, Ryan served as law clerk to Chief Judge Ross W. Krumm of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Virginia. In law school, he interned with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission's Division of Enforcement and spent summers at two Washington, D.C. area law firms.
Ryan earned his J.D., with Honors, from The George Washington University Law School and his B.S. in Management Science and Statistics, with Honors and Gemstone Citations, from the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business.
He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia.
Representative Matters
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Represented a Fortune 500 publicly‑traded homebuilder in a $37M+ two‑stage acquisition of 246 residential units within a master‑planned mixed‑use development in Loudoun County, Virginia, structured as a 28‑unit initial direct takedown followed six months later by a 218‑unit institutional land‑bank closing, with continuing development agreement and other post-closing obligations.
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Represented a Fortune 500 publicly‑traded homebuilder in a $30M+ eight‑parcel bulk land acquisition of an approximately 600‑unit master‑planned residential community in Chesterfield County, Virginia, comprising townhouse, active adult, and executive/estate product, structured with a concurrent land‑bank spin to an institutional capital partner under a master option agreement governing rolling takedowns.
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Represented a Fortune 500 publicly‑traded homebuilder in a $27.5M+ multi‑phase acquisition of 112 finished homesites within a master‑planned mixed‑use community in Ashburn, Loudoun County, Virginia, from a regional homebuilder seller, structured as an institutional land‑bank closing.
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Represented a Fortune 500 publicly‑traded homebuilder in a $26M+ ten‑parcel land‑bank acquisition of 126 finished homesites within an entitled townhouse condominium community in Manassas, Virginia, from a regional homebuilder seller, structured as an institutional land‑bank closing.
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Represented a closely‑held Maryland real estate partnership in a $24M+ aggregate finished single‑family lot sale (comprising a $10.7M purchase price and a $13.6M Lot Finishing Agreement finishing fee covering 189 finished SFD lots) in Middle River, Baltimore County, Maryland to a Fortune 500 publicly‑traded homebuilder, structured under a Lot Finishing Agreement with a $5.2M deferred final installment secured by letter of credit, with concurrent payoff of two underlying acquisition loans at settlement and recorded Temporary Grading Easement and Water & Sewer Declaration.
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Represented a closely‑held Maryland real estate partnership in a $23M+ aggregate multi‑product finished lot sale (for 86 townhouse lots and 34 finished single‑family detached lots) in Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland to a Fortune 500 publicly‑traded homebuilder, structured under a Lot Finishing Agreement for the townhouse phase and a Lot Purchase and Development Agreement for the SFD phase, spanning more than a dozen rolling individual lot closings through final closing.
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Represented a closely‑held Maryland real estate partnership in the $22.5M sale of a multi‑parcel industrial development site in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, to an institutional industrial joint venture, structured as the relinquished‑property leg of a §1031 exchange with negotiated seller credits for offsite water and sewer infrastructure and Maryland Department of the Environment forest conservation obligations, a post‑closing aboveground storage tank removal escrow, and tree mitigation banking allocations.
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Represented a closely‑held Maryland real estate partnership in a $21M+ aggregate multi‑phase finished lot sale (for 87 villa lots and 124 active adult condominium units) in Prince George’s County, Maryland to a Fortune 500 publicly‑traded homebuilder under parallel Lot Finishing Agreements for the villa lot and condominium product lines, with seller‑completed infrastructure work.
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Represented a closely‑held Maryland real estate partnership in a $17M first‑lien refinance of a three‑property commercial real estate portfolio in Maryland, structured as a single‑loan, three‑property allocation across the underlying assets, with concurrent payoff of legacy loan facilities and consolidated regional bank financing on the surviving portfolio.
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Represented a Fortune 500 publicly‑traded homebuilder in a $13M+ acquisition of 52 single‑family attached villa lots within an age‑restricted 55+ active adult community in Baltimore County, Maryland, structured as an institutional land‑bank closing involving the assignment of a multi‑year purchase agreement, a concurrent underlying contract closing, a shared infrastructure cost agreement, and a separate carve‑out lot purchase.
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Represented a Fortune 500 publicly‑traded homebuilder in an $8.8M acquisition of 194 residential units (156 condominium units and 38 townhomes) across two blocks of a master‑planned mixed‑use community in Henrico County, Virginia, from a regional developer, structured as an institutional land‑bank closing with offsite‑contribution and holdback escrows.
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Represented a Fortune 500 publicly‑traded homebuilder in a $8M acquisition of 199 single‑family lots plus open space and rights‑of‑way within a master‑planned community in Sussex County, Delaware, from a regional homebuilder seller, closed through an affiliated institutional land‑bank purchaser.