Liz Ryan > Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP > Houston, United States > Lawyer Profile
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Offices
700 LOUISIANA, SUITE 1600
HOUSTON, TX 77002
TEXAS
United States
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Liz Ryan
Position
Partner
Career
An experienced trial lawyer in Weil’s national Complex Commercial Litigation practice, Liz regularly handles billion-dollar, high-profile disputes involving antitrust, breach of contract, business tort, employment, intellectual property, products liability, and personal injury claims. She has a winning record in all major venues, including in federal courts, state courts, and arbitrations, and of late, in cases involving everything from antitrust enforcement actions to complex business disputes to products liability and personal injury MDLs and class actions. Her clients span industries, including financial services, retail, technology, energy, and real estate, among others.
Memberships
Member of Board of Directors of the Perot Museum of Nature and Science and Women of Tocqueville’s Steering Committee for the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas.
Education
Syracuse University (BA, summa cum laude); William & Mary Law School (JD).
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Tax > Financial products
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Industry focus > Sport
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense