Counsel

Ryan Lake

Founder & Managing Attorney • J.D., LL.M., MBA

Ryan founded Lake Legal in 2012 to give athletes, entertainers, founders, and families a single strategic counsel for the decisions that define what comes next. The practice spans business structuring, brand and intellectual property protection, entertainment and sports representation, securities work, and multigenerational planning.

He teaches sports law and business law at the University of Denver, his undergraduate alma mater, and previously taught sports and entertainment law as an adjunct professor at St. John's University School of Law, where he coached the salary arbitration team. He wrote on the business of sport as a Forbes SportsMoney contributor, and earlier in his career worked with U.S. Olympic national governing bodies on athlete selection procedures and anti-doping policy.

Alongside the firm, Ryan serves as a fiduciary through Lake Advisors, the affiliated advisory practice, keeping legal structure and family strategy under one roof.