Ryan is a Managing Director in the Restructuring practice of Opportune. He focuses on financial and operational restructuring, and has significant experience in reorganization plan development, negotiation and implementation, corporate recapitalizations, distressed valuation, effecting amendments and waivers, capital raising, distressed M&A, liquidity management, business plan development and review, and litigation support. Ryan has advised debtors, creditors, and equity holders on restructurings and special situations – both in – and out-of-court – with liabilities totaling in excess of $20.0 billion. Prior to joining Opportune, Ryan was a vice president in the restructuring group at Duff & Phelps Securities (f/k/a Chanin Capital Partners). Before that, he worked at Panagos Katz Situational Investing – a special situations fund – and began his career in the leveraged finance group at J.P. Morgan. Ryan received a B.A., magna cum laude, in International Relations and Economics from Tufts University and a J.D. from Wake Forest University School of Law. He holds the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) Series 63 and 79 licenses.