Concentrates on a wide variety of domestic and international debt financings and complex restructurings, advising hedge funds, alternative capital sources, private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies.
Focuses on private equity related corporate finance, direct lending, special situation financings and out-of-court and in-court restructurings.

Ryan represents private equity sponsors, portfolio companies and other borrowers in connection with leveraged buyouts and corporate finance transactions, and alternative capital sources, hedge funds and other financial investors in connection with loan originations and distressed investments.

Ryan has extensive experience with leveraged acquisition and recapitalization transactions, syndicated loan financing, cash flow and asset-based lending, rescue financings, debtor-in-possession financings, out-of-court and in-court restructurings and special situation opportunities.

Representative Work

Represented an ad hoc group of first lien lenders and DIP financing lenders of Foresight Energy LP in connection with a restructuring of more than $1.4 billion of debt.
Represented Vista Credit Partners as agent and lender in connection with a $175 million global recapitalization of Meltwater Group, a media monitoring and business intelligence software as a service company.
Represented Brightwood Capital Advisors as agent, arranger and lender in connection with a $258 million revolving and term loan financing of a healthcare network and affiliated practices.
Represented a consortium of hedge funds in connection with $1.0 billion second lien financing of SunEdison, Inc. and an ad hoc group of DIP lenders and rights offering backstoppers in the subsequent bankruptcy proceedings SunEdison, Inc. involving over $2.3 billion of gross asset sales.
Represented an ad hoc group of first lien lenders of Walter Energy in connection with its $3.1 billion restructuring of Walter Energy through a 363 credit bid, and its successor company, Warrior Met Coal, in connection with a $125 million asset-based revolving credit facility, NYSE IPO and a $350 million offering of senior secured notes.

Other matters include representing an ad hoc committee of senior unsecured noteholders in the bankruptcy proceedings of Pacific Gas and Electric Company, an ad hoc group of secured lenders in the bankruptcy proceedings of True Religion Apparel, Inc., an ad hoc group of noteholders in the bankruptcy proceedings of Hercules Offshore, and an ad hoc group of lenders in the restructuring and sale of Endeavour Energy.