Ryan Bennett

Ryan Bennett is Chair of Willkie’s Restructuring Group. He splits his time between Chicago and New York.

Ryan has more than two decades of experience guiding sophisticated corporate debtors, investors and other key parties through some of the nation’s most complex restructuring cases and transactions. He focuses on protecting and advancing the financial interests of corporate debtors and secured and unsecured creditors in the various transactional and litigation-related aspects of the debtor-creditor relationship. His clients have included public and private companies, private equity sponsors, investors, and major creditors across industries such as manufacturing, logistics, technology, automotive, hospitality, retail, and financial services.

In addition to company-side representations, Ryan regularly counsels leading private equity and investment fund clients, both in and out of court, on acquisitions of distressed assets and investments and corporate governance matters related to client portfolio companies.

Ryan also represents large, multinational corporations in distressed supply chain, acquisitions and other commercial matters involving distressed counter-parties.