Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Corporate/Banking and Credit

Patrick Ryan regularly represents leading financial institutions, investment banks and other lenders in connection with the arrangement and syndication of senior credit facilities, including acquisition, bridge and other corporate financings. Previously serving as Head of the Firm’s Global Banking and Credit Practice, he has significant experience in complicated financings in the leveraged finance, investment-grade, private credit and asset-based markets, often working with clients to develop innovative structures or to find solutions to difficult issues. He has also advised on special situations and the restructuring of existing credit facilities and other related financings, including DIP and exit financings.

Patrick’s institutional clients include JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Citibank, Bank of America, Royal Bank of Canada, HSBC and Barclays. Patrick also represents companies in connection with their financing activities, and his clients have included AOL, American Media, Bard, Cengage Learning, Evercore, Hulu, iHeartMedia, MasterCard, News Corporation, Radioshack, Sky Deutschland, Travelers Companies, 21st Century Fox, CentralSquare Technologies, Vantage Airport Group and Universal Studios. Patrick has also been active in representing clients in sports and entertainment ventures, including Forest City Ratner Companies and other investors in connection with the acquisition and relocation of the Nets NBA franchise to Brooklyn. Recently, Patrick has been representing clients in partnerships between banks and credit funds in connection with the continued growth of the private credit and alternative capital market.

Partner, 1998.

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

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