Tana M Ryan

Tana Ryan is a partner in Weil’s Private Equity practice and is the managing partner of Weil’s Los Angeles office. Tana advises private equity funds and public and private companies in a wide variety of corporate transactions. She has experience navigating a full spectrum of corporate transactions, including domestic and cross-border leveraged buyouts and mergers and acquisitions, carve-outs and spin-offs, going private transactions, distressed acquisitions, special situations, and in-court and out-of-court restructurings, minority investments, corporate governance arrangements and executive compensation and equity incentive programs. Tana navigates significant transactions across a multitude of industries, including software, media, and technology; energy, infrastructure, and transportation; financial and business services; healthcare; industrials and manufacturing; and consumer and retail products. Tana is known in particular for leading transactions with high levels of complexity, whether due to stringent regulatory overlays, distressed dynamics, or complicated cross-border elements. She has led numerous transactions that have been profiled by such leading media outlets as The Deal, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Reuters, Law360, and The American Lawyer.

University of California, Los Angeles (B.A., cum laude, 2000); University of Chicago (J.D., 2003).