Ryan Brizek

Practice Areas

Ryan Brizek focuses his practice on transactional and regulatory matters involving regulated funds, with a particular focus on making private markets investment strategies accessible to public investors. Ryan regularly advises clients on the structuring, formation and operation of regulated funds and other products designed to provide retail and high net worth investors access to alternative asset classes, such as private equity, private credit, infrastructure, secondaries and liquid alternatives. He has deep experience across the various types of regulated fund structures, including interval funds, tender offer funds, listed closed-end funds, business development companies (BDCs), mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs).

Ryan has significant experience advising closed-end funds and their underwriters on capital markets transactions, including initial public offerings, underwritten and privately placed common and preferred stock offerings, at-the-market offerings and rights offerings to acquire shares of common or preferred stock. He routinely advises closed-end funds on governance and transactional matters, including defensive measures to seek to protect the interests of long-term shareholders, as well as proxy contests and related standstill arrangements. Ryan also counsels registered funds and BDCs on regulatory and compliance matters, including with respect to side-by-side investments and investment restructurings involving regulated and private funds. He regularly provides strategic investment management regulatory advice to asset management firms in M&A transactions and capital markets transactions.

Career

Joined Firm, 2018; Partner in 2020.

Personal

J.D., George Washington University Law School (2008); B.S., Pennsylvania State University (2004).