Robert A. Ryan

Selected recent transactions and experience include acting as:

• Underwriters’ counsel in connection with Atlantic Union Bankshares Corporation’s US$402.5 million forward equity offering in connection with its proposed merger with Sandy Spring Bancorp Inc.
• Issuer’s counsel for RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. in connection with its equity financing for its acquisition of AIG’s treaty reinsurance business. 
• Issuer’s counsel for Soho House & Co. Inc. in connection with its initial public offering.
• Issuer’s counsel for nCino, Inc. in connection with its initial public offering.
• Issuer’s counsel for Outset Medical Inc. in connection with its initial public offering.
• Issuer’s counsel for Athene Holding Ltd. in connection with its initial public offering, which was awarded “Equity Deal of the Year” at the IFLR Americas Awards, and multiple follow-on equity offerings.
• Issuer's counsel for Aon plc and its affiliates in connection with multiple offerings through its bespoke co-issuer structure. 
• Underwriters’ counsel in connection with Newmark Group, Inc.’s initial public offering and senior debt offerings.  
• Issuer’s counsel for Synchrony Financial and Synchrony Bank in connection with multiple SEC-registered and exempted debt offerings.  
• Issuer’s counsel for Aflac Incorporated in connection with multiple SEC-registered offerings.
• Initial purchasers’ counsel in connection with Mercedes-Benz Group AG’s senior debt offerings.
• Issuer’s counsel for Washington Federal, Inc. in connection with its SEC-registered preference share offering.  
• Issuer’s counsel for SBL Holdings, Inc. in connection with its preferred share and senior notes offerings.
• Issuer’s counsel for McKinsey & Company, Inc. in connection with its private placement of senior notes.
• Designated underwriters’ counsel for numerous other issuers, including BGC Partners, Inc., Brown & Brown, Inc., Federal Realty Trust, McKesson Corporation, O’Reilly Automotive Inc. and Stryker Medical Corporation.
• Counsel to major private equity and other sponsors in connection with portfolio company private fundraisings, IPOs and other offerings and related capital markets considerations.
• Issuer’s counsel to a host of private and emerging companies in connection with exempted capital raising transactions and potential public company planning and preparation. 

Though based in the firm’s New York office for the majority of his career, Rob spent three years in Sidley’s London office, and completed extended secondments in the firm’s Hong Kong and Sydney offices.

In addition to his extensive capital markets and corporate experience, Rob maintains an active and meaningful pro bono practice. He advises early-stage and developing businesses through Sidley’s Emerging Enterprises Pro Bono Program, which provides legal advice to small- and medium-sized agricultural-related enterprises and non-governmental organizations centered in emerging markets. Further, Rob represented several petitioners in connection with clemency appeals submitted through Sidley’s partnership with the Clemency Project.

Rob is co-chair of the New York office Recruiting Committee as well as a member of the New York Bar Association and the American Bar Association, and previously served as a member of the NYCBA Securities Regulation Committee. He regularly presents at the firm’s Corporate College and other professional conferences for corporate and securities law matters, and serves as a member of the board of directors (as well as a long-time volunteer) of Read Ahead, a not-for-profit organization focused on reading-based mentoring and literacy development for children in under-resourced NYC public schools.