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Ryan
Liberating Capital. Empowering Growth.
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Overview

Ryan is a global tax services and software firm helping companies optimize tax performance. With end-to-end solutions across compliance, recovery, and technology, Ryan delivers measurable value to Fortune 1000 clients and beyond.

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Number of Employees

5,001-10,000

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ConsultingDigital Solutions

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Serviced Businesses
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Regions

Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania,

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Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, India, Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, Portugal, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States Of America

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Year of foundation

1991

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Privately Held

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Industry

Financial Services

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About Us

Shaping the Future of Tax

Headquartered in Plano, Texas, Ryan is the leading global tax services, software, and technology firm, delivering an integrated suite of federal, state, local, and international tax services on a multijurisdictional basis. Our multidisciplinary team of more than 7,100 professionals and associates serves over 74,000 clients in more than 80 countries, including many of the world's most prominent Global 5000 companies. From recovery and consulting to compliance, advocacy, technology, and legal services, Ryan provides end-to-end tax solutions that improve overall tax performance and deliver substantial value, improved profitability, and greater cash flow. We represent 97% of the companies that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average — and last year alone, we recovered more than $5 billion in tax savings for our global clients. Ryan is not just the tax services industry's client service leader. We are an award-winning culture of innovation, internationally recognized for workplace excellence, employee development, and the relentless pursuit of results that matter.

Who we are

The People Behind the Results

Ryan is owned and managed by a group of Principals with many years of multi-jurisdictional tax experience — legislators, former administrative law judges, tax policy officials, former tax auditors, attorneys, statisticians, and specialists across more than 70 global tax practice areas. Empowered by the dynamic myRyan work environment, widely recognized as the most innovative in the tax services industry, our professionals and associates are among the brightest and most technically proficient in the market today. We are not a collection of generalists handing off work down a chain. We are dedicated tax specialists who bring uncommon depth, proven methodology, and an advocate's mindset to every engagement. Our team's singular focus on tax — and only tax — means our clients benefit from a level of expertise and accountability that traditional accounting and consulting firms simply cannot match.

What we do

Integrated End-to-End Tax Services

Ryan delivers a comprehensive suite of tax services designed to transform every dimension of our clients' tax function. Our Recovery practice identifies and recaptures tax overpayments, returning billions of dollars to clients' bottom lines each year. Our Consulting team provides strategic advisory services that improve overall tax performance, driving greater profitability, cash flow, and shareholder value. Through Advocacy, we serve as a true champion for our clients — unrestricted by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 — representing their interests with strategic advantages no ordinary accounting firm can offer. Our Compliance practice functions as a seamless extension of each client's tax department, streamlining operations, eliminating manual processes, and substantially reducing risk. Our Technology and Ryan Software solutions are rooted in the deep experience gained solving the most complex issues for Global 5000 corporations, transforming the tax function from a cost center into a strategic asset. And Ryan Legal Services, PLLC brings next-generation legal capabilities to deliver truly end-to-end tax solutions.

Our Purpose

We Are in the Tomorrow Business

At Ryan, we are driven by a single, defining purpose: to liberate our clients from the burden of being overtaxed, freeing their capital to invest, grow, and thrive. We believe companies should pay only the taxes they absolutely owe — but no more — because the rest fuels the dreams of a better future. When a company is overtaxed, job growth is underdeveloped, innovation languishes, and what could be never gets off the ground. We are here to change that. We are driven to reinvent how to master the complexity of the modern tax code. Where others see rules and regulations, we see opportunity. Where some see codes and constrictions, we see what could be. Where others say 'we're done here,' we say, 'let's get started.' We do not rest until we've created value and delivered results that offer real relief to our clients and real revenue to the bottom line. This is not merely a business. This is the tomorrow business — creating a better tomorrow for all of us.

Our Values

Guided by Our Values

Five core values guide everything we do at Ryan. We believe that client service is not a department — it is everyone's responsibility, and it is what has earned us the International Customer Service Standard (ICSS) Gold Certification, the first firm ever to qualify for its recertification. We believe that integrity always is non-negotiable; it is not a platitude but the way we operate every single day, embedded in our culture and held accountable through our Integrity Helpline. We believe that people matter — that the well-being, growth, and success of our team members is inseparable from the quality of service we deliver to clients. We believe that excellence in all things is the standard, not the aspiration. And we believe that generosity matters — that sharing our success with colleagues, clients, and communities is not an afterthought but a core expression of who we are. These values are not posted on a wall. They shape every decision, every engagement, and every relationship at Ryan.

Why working with us

Unmatched Results. Unrivaled Focus.

Ryan's value proposition goes far beyond industry-leading tax recovery. We are focused on your overall tax performance — providing innovative solutions to the underlying causes of the errors we identify, creating measurable improvements in efficiency, and developing a more strategic approach to tax that delivers outstanding value to your shareholders. Our results speak for themselves: without our follow-up reviews, clients would have forfeited hundreds of millions of dollars in tax savings that our competitors failed to find. We know of no instance where any competitor has produced meaningful tax savings after our review was complete. That is not a claim we make lightly — it is a track record built over decades of serving the world's most respected companies. Leveraging more than 70 global tax practice areas and an end-to-end service model spanning recovery, consulting, advocacy, compliance, technology, and legal services, Ryan is the only firm positioned to address your entire tax burden — and keep you ahead of it.

Community & Impact

Generosity Matters: The Ryan Foundation

At Ryan, giving back is built into our DNA. Our value of Generosity Matters is a commitment to sharing our success with colleagues, clients, and the communities where we live and work. Ryan associates do not just want to write a check — they want to connect on a personal level, get their hands dirty building a house, feed the hungry, mentor the next generation, and volunteer to change their communities for the better. Through our annual firmwide RyanSHARES Day, local food and clothing drives, and 16 hours per year of paid volunteer time for every team member, we stay engaged year-round. The Ryan Foundation, established in 2011, extends our reach further — supporting education, health and wellness, and poverty and disaster relief causes chosen by our own team members. The numbers tell a powerful story: more than 4.2 million meals provided since 2015, over 2.5 million meals delivered to children, 50,574 IVs provided for children receiving cancer treatment at St. Jude, 281,451 nails driven across 69 Habitat for Humanity volunteer days, and 14,680 students trained in CPR through the American Heart Association. The Ryan Foundation also houses our Employee Financial Assistance Program, ensuring that Ryan takes care of its own in times of personal hardship.

Inclusion & Diversity

RyanMOSAIC: Building an Inclusive Meritocracy

For more than three decades, Ryan has strived to create and maintain an exceptional workplace where everyone can thrive. Through RyanMOSAIC, our diversity, equity, and inclusion initiative, we foster an environment of mutual respect that empowers team members to celebrate all cultures and perspectives. Ryan recognizes that diversity and inclusion drive creativity and innovation, fueling our ability to deliver excellence. We seek out the best and brightest regardless of race, gender, age, or sexual identity, and we continually work to develop our people in a truly inclusive and collaborative way so that everyone is empowered to achieve work-life success. Our goal, as articulated by Chairman and CEO G. Brint Ryan, is to build an inclusive meritocracy — a workplace experience that is challenging, rewarding, transparent, and fair. Ryan publishes an annual Meritocracy at Work Report to hold ourselves accountable to that goal, sharing our global strategy and current demographic footprint with full transparency.

Awards & Accreditations

A Culture of Innovation, Recognized Globally

Ryan's commitment to client service excellence, workplace innovation, and employee development has earned consistent recognition from the world's most respected organizations. Ryan has been named to the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list for nine consecutive years, and to the Best Workplac... See more

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