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Mr Patrick Ryan

+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).