Ryan Trombley is a senior restructuring associate in Arnold & Porter’s Chicago office. Ryan counsels clients on corporate restructuring and insolvency matters with a focus on creditor representations. Ryan’s experience in restructuring spans a wide array of industries such as entertainment, life sciences, beauty, consumer packaged goods (CPG), hospitality, logistics, and mining, among others.
Ryan previously worked as an international tax consultant at a leading Big Four accounting firm in Chicago and advised Fortune 500 companies on tax controversy, intercompany tax planning, and tax due diligence matters.
Experience
- Represented an ad-hoc group of 34+ term loan lenders and DIP lenders in the Chapter 11 cases of Cineworld Group plc, the world’s second-largest cinema exhibition company, in restructuring over $5 billion of funded debt, over $1.7 billion in DIP financing, and $2.2 billion in debt and equity financing.
- Represented an ad-hoc group of lenders in the prepackaged Chapter 11 cases of Strategic Materials, Inc., a leading North American glass recycling company and related post-petition matters.
- Represented Novartis Innovative Therapies AG as the buyer of certain intellectual property assets of Clovis Oncology, Inc. in its Chapter 11 cases.
- Represented the plan administrator in the wind-down of the Murray Energy Chapter 11 bankruptcy estate.*
- Represented blue chip Consumer Packaged Good Company in preference litigation matters.*
*Reflects experience at previous employer.
Perspectives
2023
A Matter of Semantics: Conversion of Foreign Restructuring Proceeding into Liquidation Does Not Require New Chapter 15
ChaseCambria Volume 20, Issue 4 (subscription required)
Credentials
Education
- J.D., University of Notre Dame Law School, 2018
- B.A., International Relations, Global Business; Spanish, University of Southern California, 2013, cum laude, Renaissance Scholar
Admissions
- Illinois
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of Illinois
- U.S. District Court, Central District of Illinois
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Central District of Illinois
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of Illinois
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of Illinois
- U.S. District Court, District of Colorado
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Colorado
- U.S. District Court, District of Columbia
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Columbia
Activities
- Member, National LGBTQ+ Bar Association