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Ryan is selling a “significant minority equity interest” in the Dallas tax services firm to one of Wall Street’s most prominent investment firms, Ares Management Corp. The undisclosed investment amount, announced Thursday, boosts Ryan’s valuation to $2.5 billion, according to a joint statement from Ryan and Onex Corp., an earlier investor in the company. Ryan’s goal is to build a global tax brand, and it has been growing aggressively through acquisitions. This year alone, it has closed deals for Boston-area property tax consulting firm Greystone Property Tax Advisors, British-based tax reclaim specialist Catax, property tax consulting firm Marvin F. Poer and Company, historic tax credits consulting firm MacRostie Historic Advisors and Houston-based motor fuels excise tax specialist Tax Advisory Services Group. read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/business/local-companies/2022/05/26/dallas-tax-services-firm-ryan-soars-to-25-billion-valuation-with-new-investment/

FRISCO, TEXAS — Ryan, a leading global tax services and software provider, will be the presenting sponsor of the Frisco Football Classic college football bowl game. The Frisco Football Classic presented by Ryan will feature Miami (OH) (6-6), representing the Mid-American Conference, and North Texas (6-6), representing Conference USA, on Thursday, Dec. 23, at 2:30 p.m. CT at Toyota Stadium in Frisco, Texas. The game will air on ESPN. “We are delighted to welcome Ryan as a presenting sponsor of the Frisco Football Classic and look forward to having this leading Dallas-based company as part of a fantastic college football bowl event, “said Frisco Football Classic executive director Sean Johnson. “Ryan is proud to sponsor the Frisco Football Classic and support student-athletes from these two incredible schools, said Ryan Chairman and CEO G. Brint Ryan. “We wish them continued success both on and off the field.” The Frisco Football Classic presented by Ryan is one of 18 college football bowl games owned and operated by ESPN Events during the 2021 Bowl Season. Fans can purchase tickets at https://friscofootballclassic.com/ and follow the bowl online on twitter @FBFriscoClassic or Instagram at FBFriscoClassic. Ryan Ryan, an award-winning global tax services and software provider, is the largest Firm in the world dedicated exclusively to business taxes. With global headquarters in Dallas, Texas, the Firm provides an integrated suite of federal, state, local and international tax services on a multijurisdictional basis, including tax recovery, consulting, advocacy, compliance and technology services. Ryan is a nine-time recipient of the International Service Excellence Award from the Customer Service Institute of America (CSIA) for its commitment to world-class client service. Empowered by the dynamic myRyan work environment, which is widely recognized as the most innovative in the tax services industry, Ryan’s multidisciplinary team of more than 3,100 professionals and associates serves over 18,000 clients in more than 60 countries, including many of the world’s most prominent Global 5000 companies. For more information, visit ryan.com. Note: “Ryan” and “Firm” refer to the global organizational network and may refer to one or more of the member firms of Ryan International, each of which is a separate legal entity. ESPN Events ESPN Events, a division of ESPN, owns and operates a portfolio of 35 collegiate sporting events nationwide. The roster includes five early-season college football games, 17 college bowl games, 12 college basketball events and a college softball event, which accounts for approximately 400 hours of live programming, reaches nearly 64 million viewers and attracts over 800,000 attendees each year. With satellite offices in more than 10 markets across the country, ESPN Events builds relationships with conferences, schools and local communities, as well as providing unique experiences for teams and fans. For more information, visit the official website, Facebook, Twitter or YouTube pages.

Lesa Benton Roe’s mother discouraged her from going to college. No one in the Benton family — not even Lesa’s older brother and sister — had made it past high school. And her mother, a switchboard operator in Gainesville, Fla., feared that her youngest couldn’t cut it, even though Lesa was a straight-A student. “She was trying to brace me for failure,” Roe says. “But I had an internal drive to be something more.” Fortunately, Roe listened to her father, a groundskeeper for the Veterans Administration who had always regretted not having a college degree and expected her get one. She got two — an undergraduate degree and a master’s of science in electrical engineering. She didn’t really know what engineers did until she got a co-op job at NASA while studying at the University of Florida. During Roe’s 33-year meteoric career at NASA, she broke gender barriers and reshaped the way things got done at the $19.6 billion agency — making operations run smoother and more efficiently. She rose to second in command as acting deputy administrator when she retired in October and headed to Dallas. Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2018/04/27/lesa-benton-roe-nasa-superstar-first-woman-unt-chancellor

And in other news … I received a couple of good questions on Brint Ryan’s deal with UNT for advertising at athletic facilities over the next 10 years. read more: http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2015/02/wednesday-morning-notes-a-little-more-on-ryans-donation-et-cetera.html/

Brint Ryan, the chairman of the UNT board of regents, has a $1 million.deal in place with the the school’s athletic department for a naming rights sponsorship. The deal will give Ryan, the chairman and CEO of Ryan, LLC, a leading international tax services firm, naming rights to signage in both end zones at Apogee Stadium in addition to the floor at the Super Pit. read more; http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2015/02/brint-ryan-purchasing-naming-rights-for-1-million.html/

DALLAS — University of North Texas System Chancellor Lee Jackson will remain in the position until at least 2017, after the university’s Board of Regents unanimously approved a contract extension Friday. The action shows the board’s continued confidence in Jackson, despite the financial challenges the system and the flagship campus in Denton are still facing, chairman Brint Ryan said. “I personally have found him to be a very capable leader, and he’s following the direction of the board and all of the new things that we want to do to change the system, to change UNT to make it better,” Ryan said after the vote. Read more: http://www.dentonrc.com/local-news/local-news-headlines/20140822-regents-extend-jacksons-contract.ece

My alma mater, the University of North Texas, has a healthy pattern of growth and a solid financial base, although you’ve seen some alarming revelations in recent months. I want the community to understand that our future is bright and our enrollment generates revenue that will allow us to continue to grow and excel. But we’re learning a hard lesson about the importance of solid and honest accounting, something my UNT professors taught me years ago. The old Russian proverb of “trust but verify,” appropriated by President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, has new meaning and significance for the administrative leadership and regents of the University of North Texas System. The current board, our predecessors and system leaders have trusted that the individuals at UNT responsible for the basic tasks of managing the university’s funds were doing so accurately and professionally. But in recent years we began demanding technology upgrades and enhanced reporting to verify that the highest standards of accounting principles were being followed. As a result, we and our auditors have discovered and disclosed some significant errors and inaccurate reports. We have now documented a series of ingrained and improper financial practices that simply should never have happened. Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/latest-columns/20140714-lesson-from-unt-funds-mess-trust-but-verify.ece