Practice Areas
Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, and Digital Assets
Corporate
Corporate Finance
Financial Restructuring
FinTech
Fund Finance
Admissions
North Carolina
Washington
New York
Education
University of Virginia School of Law - J.D.
Florida State University - B.S., Political Science
Florida State University - B.S., Sociology
Santa Fe College - A.A.
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Profile
Ryan Leverone advises borrowers, banks and alternative lenders on a broad range of domestic and cross-border financing transactions, including syndicated, club and bilateral loans, litigation financings, back-leveraged facilities, NAV facilities, management fee facilities, commodities financings, asset-based lending, fund-level ABL facilities, bankruptcy exit financings, acquisition and 363 sale financings, shareholder financings, note purchases, repurchase financings, royalty financings, out-of-court workouts and restructurings and other complex transactions.
Ryan also represents financial institutions in the purchase and sale of par and distressed debt and equity on the secondary loan and equity trading markets, including bespoke participation arrangements for credit risk transfer, fund finance and NAV lending transactions. Ryan additionally focuses on emerging technologies impacting financing transactions and law practice, including smart contracts, blockchain, cryptocurrency, AI-powered contract analysis, document automation and automated workflow management. Ryan has previously served as in-house corporate counsel to Amazon Web Services, Inc., where he advised on such projects and a variety of technology transactions and complex business initiatives.
Recognition
- Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America – Banking and Finance Law (2022, 2026)
Experience
- Litigation Finance—Advising an alternative lender on a US$54m secured and personally guaranteed term loan to a Florida law firm pursuing certain U.S. mass tort claims.
- Litigation Finance—Advising an alternative lender on a US$37.5m secured prepaid forward purchase agreement to an international law firm pursuing certain international antitrust claims.
- Corporate Finance—Advising the lead lender on multiple refinancings (US$4.05bn, US$4.425bn, US$4.54bn, US$4.235bn, US$4.64bn) of a secured borrowing base credit facility for a global commodity trader.
- Corporate Finance—Advising the lead lender on a US$150m bilateral senior secured unitranche hybrid commodities and acquisition financing for a PE-backed wholesale fuel and convenience store business.
- Corporate Finance—Advising the lead lender on multiple refinancings of an aggregate US$250m parallel credit facilities for a U.S airline (US$75m) and its jet fuel refiner subsidiary (US$175m).
- Corporate Finance—Advising the lead lender on a US$100m uncommitted syndicated senior secured credit facility for a startup agriculture technology platform and e-commerce network.
- Corporate Finance—Advising a securities finance company as borrower on a US$40m senior secured note issuance to finance the acquisition of a fintech software company.
- Corporate Finance—Advising a private holding company and its major U.S. bus line operator portfolio company on a US$155m 363 sale and Chapter 11 exit financing.
- Corporate Finance—Advising the lead lender on a US$100m senior secured amortizing term loan facility for a joint venture renewable diesel refinery.
- Corporate Finance—Advising a private holding company and its lead, copper, and zinc mining portfolio company as borrower on a US$145m term and revolving senior secured credit facility.
- NAV/Secondaries Finance—Advising a leading alternative investment manager as arranger on a US$30m senior secured delayed draw term loan NAV credit facility secured by management fees.
- NAV/Secondaries Finance—Advising the lead lender on a US$150m delayed draw NAV credit facility to an investment management firm secured by revenue streams from diverse portfolio companies.
- Special Situations—Advising the largest minority shareholder of a distressed South American airline on a US$50m strategic shareholder bridge financing.
- Special Situations—Advising a lender on a multi-billion dollar out-of-court workout and liquidation of a global asset manager, including debt restructurings for pro sports teams and UCC auctions.
- Debt Trading—Advising financial institutions and hedge funds on hundreds of secondary market distressed debt and equity trades and participations with aggregate value exceeding US$1.3bn.
- Special Projects—Advising a multinational bank on the novel application of AI and machine learning to legacy contract review in connection with the industry-wide transition away from LIBOR.
- Special Projects—Advising the cloud consulting business of a major U.S. technology company on a pilot and global rollout of a contractor procurement platform.*
- CRT/Back-leverage Finance—Advising the lead lender on a US$200m credit risk transfer-structured sale and back-leverage financing of participation interests in a portfolio of loans.
- Royalties Finance—Advising an insurance company on a US$475m intercompany financing secured by interests in pharmaceutical royalties.
- Project Finance—Advising the lead lender on a US$250m indirect limited recourse prepayment facility secured by payment obligations from a natural gas liquefaction and export company.
*Certain representations occurred outside of Ryan’s association with Cadwalader.
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