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Mr Patrick Ryan

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+1-212-455-3463 pryan@stblaw.com

Work Department

Corporate/Banking and Credit

Position

Partner in the Firm’s Corporate Department and Head of the Firm’s Banking and Credit Practice Group. Practice focuses on the representation of large financial institutions and borrowers in connection with the arrangement and syndication of leveraged and investment grade financings, including leveraged and investment grade acquisition and bridge financings. Recent transactions include representation of the lenders in AT&T’s announced spin-off of WarnerMedia and combination with Discovery, the lenders in a Reverse Morris Trust transaction to spin-off Rexnord’s Process & Motion Control segment to combine with Regal, Twenty-First Century Fox in the financing related to the spin-off of its news and sports businesses to Disney, and the arrangers in the financing of acquisitions of GE Capital Aviation Services by AerCap, Baxter’s acquisition of Hillrom, Humana’s acquisition of Kindred at Home, the combination of Neogen and the food safety business of 3M, II-IV’s announced acquisition of Coheren, Red Hat by IBM, Versace by Michael Kors, BTG by Boston Scientific, and Life Technologies and FEI Company by Thermo-Fisher.

Career

Partner, 1998.

Memberships

Association of the Bar of the City of New York; New York State Bar Association.

Education

Manhattan College (B.A., magna cum laude, 1985); Fordham University (J.D., cum laude, 1989).

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Finance > Commercial lending

(Hall of Fame)

Patrick Ryan – Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP maintains its leading position across the borrower and lender markets, standing out particularly for its ability to advise on high-value and impactful acquisition financings. The team’s lender-side activity involves work for major banks such as JP Morgan as well as an expanding roster of clients in the private credit space, while its borrower-side clients include some of the nation’s largest private equity firms alongside corporate borrowers such as Dell Technologies. Most frequently advising on leveraged buyouts and investment-grade credit facilities in connection with high-value acquisitions, the firm also actively assists with asset-based lending and refinancings. Standout recent deals in this space include New York-based partner William Sheehan‘s representation of Bank of America in providing $21.7bn of unsecured credit facilities to Oracle. Practice head Patrick Ryan, a longstanding acquisition finance expert, also works out of New York, alongside key contacts James Cross and Jennifer Hobbs. In Houston, Matt Einbinder and Erland Modesto are highly recommended for their ability to advise on financings in the energy sector.

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