Ryan Bennett

Practice Areas

Ryan Blaine Bennett is a restructuring partner in Kirkland & Ellis’ Chicago office. Ryan’s practice focuses on corporate governance and protecting and advancing the financial interests of corporate debtors and secured and unsecured creditors in the various aspects of the borrower-lender relationship. Ryan has played a principal role representing sophisticated corporate borrowers, investors and other key parties in some of the most complex restructuring transactions during the past three decades.

In addition to his company-side representations, Ryan regularly counsels a number of private equity and investment fund clients, both in and out of court, with respect to acquisitions of distressed assets and investments and corporate governance matters related to such clients’ portfolio companies. Ryan’s fund clients include, among others, AE Industrial Partners, Audax Group, Blue Point Capital Partners, GTCR, GSO Capital Partners, Monomoy Capital Partners, Paine Schwartz Partners, Parthenon Capital, Summit Partners and Water Street Healthcare Partners. Likewise, Ryan represents a number of large international corporations with respect to distressed vendor and supply chain matters, including Boeing Corporation and Twentieth Century Fox.

Personal

Michigan State University, B.A., Political Theory and Constitutional Democracy, 1996; Notre Dame Law School, J.D., 2000.