Ryan Brizek

Practice Areas

Ryan Brizek is a Partner in Simpson Thacher’s Registered Funds Practice. Ryan 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. He advises clients on the formation and operation of evergreen investment funds and other products designed to provide wealth channel access to alternative asset classes, such as private equity, private credit, infrastructure, real assets, secondaries (GP-led and LP-led) 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 advises many of the leading managers of registered funds pursuing secondaries, continuation solutions and co-investments alongside transaction sponsors in the private equity, private credit and infrastructure asset classes. He represents leading asset management firms in designing multi-asset solutions to integrate public and private markets. Ryan has deep experience advising listed 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 advises registered funds and BDCs on other transactional matters such as fund mergers and strategic investments, and defensive measures to seek to protect the interests of long-term shareholders, as well as proxy contests and related standstill arrangements. Ryan also provides strategic investment management regulatory advice to asset management firms in M&A transactions.

Career

Joined Firm, 2018; Partner in 2020.

Personal

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