Robert A. Ryan

Selected recent transactions and experience include acting as:

• Issuer's counsel for Aon plc and its affiliates in connection with a US$1 billion aggregate senior notes transaction offered through a co-issuer structure.
• Issuer’s counsel for Membership Collective Group Inc., a London-based membership and hospitality company (and parent company of Soho House and related businesses), in connection with its initial public offering.
• Issuer’s counsel for nCino, Inc. in connection with its initial public offer.
• Issuer’s counsel for Outset Medical Inc. in connection with its initial public offer.
• 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.
• Underwriters’ counsel in connection with First Republic Bank’s initial public offering and numerous subsequent common stock, preference share and debt offerings.
• Underwriters’ counsel in connection with Newmark Group, Inc.’s initial public offering and inaugural senior debt offering.  
• 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. 
• Issuer’s counsel for Amcor plc and related entities in connection with their inaugural SEC-registered USD and EUR 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.
• Initial purchasers’ counsel in connection with Antares Holdings LP’s inaugural senior debt issuance. 
• Issuer’s counsel for CytomX Therapeutics, Inc. in connection with its initial public offering.
• Issuer’s counsel for a multinational software company in connection with its SEC-registered senior debt offerings. 
• Initial purchasers’ counsel in connection with Daimler AG’s senior debt offerings.
• Placement agent’s counsel for U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc. in connection with numerous private placements of subordinated notes and other securities for financial institutions.
• Designated underwriters’ counsel for numerous other issuers, including BGC Partners, Inc., Brown & Brown, Inc., Federal Realty Trust, LaSalle Hotel Properties, McKesson Corporation, O’Reilly Automotive Inc., Stryker Medical Corporation and Weingarten Realty Investors.

Rob has been ranked by Chambers USA (2021) and recommended in The Legal 500 and Euromoney LMG as a “Rising Star.” Though based in the firm’s New York office for the majority of his career, Rob spent three years in the firm’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 nascent 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, the American Bar Association and the NYCBA Securities Regulation Committee. He regularly presents at the firm’s Corporate College and other training and development conferences, and serves as a member of the board of directors of Read Ahead, a not-for-profit organization focused on reading-based mentoring and literacy development for children in NYC public schools.