Ryan T. Rafferty

Partner
New York
Tel: +1 212 909 6908
Overview
Ryan Rafferty is a corporate partner based in the New York office. He is a member of the firm’s Finance, Private Equity and Special Situations Groups, ... Read Full Biography

Publications

  • Private Equity Report: 2024 Outlook
    February 2024
    Christopher Anthony
    ,
    Katherine Ashton
    ,
    Andrew L. Bab
    ,
    Paul S. Bird
    ,
    Dominic Blaxill
    ,
    Ezra Borut
    ,
    Geoffrey P. Burgess
    ,
    Andrew J. Ceresney
    ,
    Charu A. Chandrasekhar
    ,
    Jennifer L. Chu
    ,
    Luke P. Eldridge
    ,
    Luke Dembosky
    ,
    E. Drew Dutton
    ,
    Jane Engelhardt
    ,
    Avi Gesser
    ,
    Andrew J. Gershon
    ,
    Nia I. Goodman
    ,
    David Grosgold
    ,
    Jyotin Hamid
    ,
    Ted Hassi
    ,
    Morgan J. Hayes
    ,
    Peter J. Irwin
    ,
    Eric T. Juergens
    ,
    Robert B. Kaplan
    ,
    M. Natasha Labovitz
    ,
    Jonathan F. Lewis
    ,
    Sidney P. Levinson
    ,
    Andrew M. Levine
    ,
    Erez Liebermann
    ,
    Timothy McIver
    ,
    Maura Kathleen Monaghan
    ,
    Edwin Northover
    ,
    Brett M. Novick
    ,
    Marc Ponchione
    ,
    Ryan T. Rafferty
    ,
    Natalie L. Reid
    ,
    Julie M. Riewe
    ,
    Kevin Rinker
    ,
    Samantha J. Rowe
    ,
    Paul D. Rubin
    ,
    Michael Schaper
    ,
    Kevin M. Schmidt
    ,
    Scott B. Selinger
    ,
    Aly Love Simons
    ,
    Thomas Smith
    ,
    Kristin A. Snyder
    ,
    Steven J. Slutzky
    ,
    Ramya S. Tiller
    ,
    Patricia Volhard
    ,
    Erica S. Weisgerber
    ,
    Kyra K. Bromley
    ,
    Alison E. Buckley-Serfass
    ,
    Jennifer R. Cestaro
    ,
    Stuart Hammer
    ,
    Jin-Hyuk Jang
    ,
    Wen-Wei Lai
    ,
    Michael P. McGuigan
    ,
    Sheena Paul
    ,
    Melissa Runsten
    ,
    Tricia Bozyk Sherno
    ,
    Ulysses Smith
    ,
    Sergio Torres
    ,
    Elie J. Worenklein
    ,
    Adam Aukland-Peck
    ,
    Josephine Chen
    ,
    Perpétua B. Chéry
    ,
    Paul Eastham
    ,
    Isabelle Glimcher
    ,
    Yiran Ji
    ,
    Maryam Kanna
    ,
    Leah Martin
    ,
    Sophie Michalski
    ,
    Diana Moise
    ,
    David J. Swiedler
    ,
    Perri M. Weinstein
    ,
    Nathan R. Hogan
  • Private Equity Report: 2023 Outlook
    January 2023
    Catherine Amirfar
    ,
    Christopher Anthony
    ,
    Katherine Ashton
    ,
    Jason Auerbach
    ,
    Dominic Blaxill
    ,
    Ezra Borut
    ,
    Kara Brockmeyer
    ,
    Geoffrey P. Burgess
    ,
    Lawrence K. Cagney
    ,
    Andrew J. Ceresney
    ,
    Jennifer L. Chu
    ,
    Alexander R. Cochran
    ,
    Eric Dinallo
    ,
    Christopher Dortschy
    ,
    E. Drew Dutton
    ,
    Jane Engelhardt
    ,
    Jyotin Hamid
    ,
    Ted Hassi
    ,
    Morgan J. Hayes
    ,
    Gareth Hughes
    ,
    Peter J. Irwin
    ,
    Mark Johnson
    ,
    Eric T. Juergens
    ,
    Rafael Kariyev
    ,
    Meir D. Katz
    ,
    Satish M. Kini
    ,
    M. Natasha Labovitz
    ,
    Henry Lebowitz
    ,
    Maurizio Levi-Minzi
    ,
    Andrew M. Levine
    ,
    Sidney P. Levinson
    ,
    Jonathan F. Lewis
    ,
    Marilyn A. Lion
    ,
    Timothy McIver
    ,
    John (Jay) Neukom
    ,
    Benjamin R. Pedersen
    ,
    Marc Ponchione
    ,
    Nicholas F. Potter
    ,
    Ryan T. Rafferty
    ,
    Julie M. Riewe
    ,
    Samantha J. Rowe
    ,
    Paul D. Rubin
    ,
    Scott B. Selinger
    ,
    Jane Shvets
    ,
    Steven J. Slutzky
    ,
    Patricia Volhard
    ,
    Erica S. Weisgerber
    ,
    Barbara N. Barath
    ,
    Alison E. Buckley-Serfass
    ,
    Zhiyan Cao
    ,
    Robert T. Dura
    ,
    Robert M. Fettman
    ,
    Samuel Fung
    ,
    Caroline P. Geiger
    ,
    Andrew J. Gershon
    ,
    Jin-Hyuk Jang
    ,
    Stuart Hammer
    ,
    Kim T. Le
    ,
    Michael P. McGuigan
    ,
    Sheena Paul
    ,
    Tricia Bozyk Sherno
    ,
    Jennifer Wheater
    ,
    John Young
    ,
    Jeffrey P. Cunard
    ,
    Ulysses Smith
    ,
    Jennifer R. Cestaro
    ,
    Paul Eastham
    ,
    Isabel Espinosa de los Reyes
    ,
    Jay E. Evans
    ,
    Christopher Gossage
    ,
    Berk Guler
    ,
    Yiran Ji
    ,
    Samuel D. Krawiecz
    ,
    Chaim Lapp
    ,
    Stacy S. Lee
    ,
    Lucy Litt
    ,
    Emily MacKay
    ,
    Alma M. Mozetič
    ,
    Ezra Newman
    ,
    Melissa Runsten
    ,
    Sergio Torres
    ,
    George Tan
    ,
    Tiffany Wu
    ,
    Emma Macfarlane
    ,
    Sarah Min
    ,
    Matthew Stromecki
    ,
    Massy Vainshtein
  • 2022 Private Equity Midyear Review and Outlook
    1 August 2022
    Jonathan Adler
    ,
    Christopher Anthony
    ,
    Katherine Ashton
    ,
    Sally Bergmann Hardesty
    ,
    Dominic Blaxill
    ,
    Ezra Borut
    ,
    Geoffrey P. Burgess
    ,
    Jennifer L. Chu
    ,
    Christopher Dortschy
    ,
    E. Drew Dutton
    ,
    Jane Engelhardt
    ,
    Avi Gesser
    ,
    Jyotin Hamid
    ,
    Morgan J. Hayes
    ,
    Emily F. Huang
    ,
    Peter J. Irwin
    ,
    Satish M. Kini
    ,
    M. Natasha Labovitz
    ,
    Andrew M. Levine
    ,
    Sidney P. Levinson
    ,
    Marilyn A. Lion
    ,
    Peter J. Loughran
    ,
    Nicole Levin Mesard
    ,
    Brett M. Novick
    ,
    Marc Ponchione
    ,
    Ryan T. Rafferty
    ,
    Jeffrey E. Ross
    ,
    Scott B. Selinger
    ,
    Steven J. Slutzky
    ,
    Thomas Smith
    ,
    Ramya S. Tiller
    ,
    Patricia Volhard
    ,
    Richard Ward
    ,
    Jeffrey P. Cunard
    ,
    Tricia Bozyk Sherno
    ,
    Marshal L. Bozzo
    ,
    Zhiyan Cao
    ,
    Robert T. Dura
    ,
    Andrew J. Gershon
    ,
    Stuart Hammer
    ,
    Sheena Paul
    ,
    Jin-Hyuk Jang
    ,
    Jennifer Wheater
    ,
    John Young
    ,
    Ulysses Smith
    ,
    Jennifer R. Cestaro
    ,
    Thomas A. DeMarzo
    ,
    Paul Eastham
    ,
    Isabel Espinosa de los Reyes
    ,
    Michael C. Godbe
    ,
    Christopher Gossage
    ,
    Sheng Shao
    ,
    Rachel Tennell
    ,
    Malina Welman
    ,
    Matthew Mrozek
    ,
    Chika Ojukwu
    ,
    Yiran Ji
  • 2021/2022 Private Equity Year-End Review and Outlook
    January 2022
    Jonathan Adler
    ,
    Catherine Amirfar
    ,
    Christopher Anthony
    ,
    Katherine Ashton
    ,
    Andrew L. Bab
    ,
    Geoffrey P. Burgess
    ,
    Ezra Borut
    ,
    Andrew J. Ceresney
    ,
    Jennifer L. Chu
    ,
    Jeffrey P. Cunard
    ,
    Alexander R. Cochran
    ,
    E. Drew Dutton
    ,
    Jane Engelhardt
    ,
    Morgan J. Hayes
    ,
    Eric T. Juergens
    ,
    Maurizio Levi-Minzi
    ,
    Nicholas P. Pellicani
    ,
    Ryan T. Rafferty
    ,
    Julie M. Riewe
    ,
    Scott B. Selinger
    ,
    Marc Ponchione
    ,
    Thomas Smith
    ,
    Ramya S. Tiller
    ,
    Patricia Volhard
    ,
    Richard Ward
    ,
    Alisa A. Waxman
    ,
    Marshal L. Bozzo
    ,
    Christopher Dortschy
    ,
    Andrew J. Gershon
    ,
    Emily F. Huang
    ,
    Jennifer Wheater
    ,
    Dominic Blaxill
    ,
    Charles Cartiglia
    ,
    Robert T. Dura
    ,
    Matthew J. Sacco
    ,
    Sheng Shao
    ,
    Sergio Torres
    ,
    Charlotte A. Walkovik
    ,
    Paul Eastham
    ,
    Christopher Gossage
    ,
    Robert B. Kaplan
    ,
    Sheena Paul
    ,
    John Young
    ,
    Jin-Hyuk Jang
    ,
    Lukas Ott
    ,
    Andrew M. Levine
    ,
    Stuart Hammer
    ,
    Ulysses Smith
    ,
    Luke Dembosky
    ,
    Avi Gesser
    ,
    Michael R. Roberts
    ,
    Peter J. Irwin
    ,
    Ina C. Popova
    ,
    Samantha J. Rowe
    ,
    M. Natasha Labovitz
    ,
    Sidney P. Levinson
    ,
    Paul D. Rubin
    ,
    Eric Dinallo
    ,
    Marilyn A. Lion
    ,
    Jacob W. Stahl
    ,
    Nicholas F. Potter
    ,
    Kim T. Le
    ,
    Adam Aukland-Peck
    ,
    Melissa Runsten
    ,
    Matthew Mrozek
    ,
    Michael C. Godbe
    ,
    Christel Y. Tham
    ,
    Lisa Wang Lachowicz
    ,
    Yiran Ji
  • 2021 Private Equity Midyear Review and Outlook
    22 July 2021
    Jonathan Adler
    ,
    Christopher Anthony
    ,
    Katherine Ashton
    ,
    Andrew L. Bab
    ,
    Megan K. Bannigan
    ,
    Sally Bergmann Hardesty
    ,
    David H. Bernstein
    ,
    Paul S. Bird
    ,
    Ezra Borut
    ,
    Geoffrey P. Burgess
    ,
    Jennifer L. Chu
    ,
    Matthew Dickman
    ,
    Christopher Dortschy
    ,
    E. Drew Dutton
    ,
    Jane Engelhardt
    ,
    Peter A. Furci
    ,
    Avi Gesser
    ,
    Jyotin Hamid
    ,
    Morgan J. Hayes
    ,
    Peter J. Irwin
    ,
    Meir D. Katz
    ,
    Rafael Kariyev
    ,
    M. Natasha Labovitz
    ,
    Maurizio Levi-Minzi
    ,
    Andrew M. Levine
    ,
    Sidney P. Levinson
    ,
    Jonathan F. Lewis
    ,
    Marc Ponchione
    ,
    Ryan T. Rafferty
    ,
    Paul D. Rubin
    ,
    Zachary H. Saltzman
    ,
    Kevin M. Schmidt
    ,
    Shannon Rose Selden
    ,
    Scott B. Selinger
    ,
    Steven J. Slutzky
    ,
    Ramya S. Tiller
    ,
    Richard Ward
    ,
    Alisa A. Waxman
    ,
    Patricia Volhard
    ,
    Franci J. Blassberg
    ,
    Jeffrey P. Cunard
    ,
    Andrew J. Gershon
    ,
    Stuart Hammer
    ,
    Jin-Hyuk Jang
    ,
    Kim T. Le
    ,
    Sheena Paul
    ,
    Tricia Bozyk Sherno
    ,
    Jacob W. Stahl
    ,
    Jennifer Wheater
    ,
    John Young
    ,
    Adam Aukland-Peck
    ,
    Dominic Blaxill
    ,
    Charles Cartiglia
    ,
    Robert T. Dura
    ,
    Paul Eastham
    ,
    Jay E. Evans
    ,
    Norma Angelica Lopez Campos
    ,
    David J. Hotelling
    ,
    Samuel D. Krawiecz
    ,
    Wen-Wei Lai
    ,
    Robert Maddox
    ,
    Sergio Torres
    ,
    Malina Welman
  • Practical Law: What’s Market: 2020 Mid-Year Trends in Large Cap and Middle Market Loans
    24 July 2020
    Practical Law
    Jeffrey E. Ross
    ,
    Ryan T. Rafferty
  • Sponsor Purchases of Portfolio Company Debt: Key Considerations in an Uncertain Environment
    14 May 2020
    Jonathan Adler
    ,
    Lorna Bowen
    ,
    Peter A. Furci
    ,
    Sidney P. Levinson
    ,
    Peter J. Loughran
    ,
    Jeffrey E. Ross
    ,
    Kevin M. Schmidt
    ,
    Scott B. Selinger
    ,
    Steven J. Slutzky
    ,
    Nicholas P. Pellicani
    ,
    Ryan T. Rafferty
    ,
    Julie Stem
  • Fund Level Financings: Ten Considerations for Capital Call Facility Borrowers through the COVID-19 Crisis
    8 April 2020
    Jonathan Adler
    ,
    Andrew M. Ahern
    ,
    Gavin Anderson
    ,
    Kenneth J. Berman
    ,
    Lorna Bowen
    ,
    Alan J. Davies
    ,
    Jane Engelhardt
    ,
    Andrew Ford
    ,
    Geoffrey Kittredge
    ,
    Pierre Maugüé
    ,
    Marc Ponchione
    ,
    John W. Rife III
    ,
    David J. Schwartz
    ,
    Rebecca F. Silberstein
    ,
    Thomas Smith
    ,
    Justin Storms
    ,
    Ramya S. Tiller
    ,
    Patricia Volhard
    ,
    Michael P. McGuigan
    ,
    Victoria G. J. Brown
    ,
    Ryan T. Rafferty
  • International Comparative Legal Guide to Lending & Secured Finance 2020: Liability Management
    7 April 2020
    International Comparative Legal Guide to Lending & Secured Finance 2020
    Scott B. Selinger
    ,
    Ryan T. Rafferty
  • 2019/2020 Private Equity Year-End Review and Outlook
    19 December 2019
    Jonathan Adler
    ,
    Christopher Anthony
    ,
    Kenneth J. Berman
    ,
    Lorna Bowen
    ,
    Andrew J. Ceresney
    ,
    Alan J. Davies
    ,
    Andrew Ford
    ,
    Robert B. Kaplan
    ,
    Pierre Maugüé
    ,
    Julie M. Riewe
    ,
    John W. Rife III
    ,
    Samantha J. Rowe
    ,
    Scott B. Selinger
    ,
    Thomas Smith
    ,
    Patricia Volhard
    ,
    Richard Ward
    ,
    Jin-Hyuk Jang
    ,
    John Young
    ,
    Dominic Blaxill
    ,
    Conway Blake
    ,
    Tom Cornell
    ,
    Paul Eastham
    ,
    Michelle Gilmore-Parry
    ,
    Felix Paterson
    ,
    Ryan T. Rafferty
  • The Private Equity Report Fall 2019, Vol 19, No 2
    November 2019
    Andrew L. Bab
    ,
    Uri Herzberg
    ,
    Eric T. Juergens
    ,
    Matthew E. Kaplan
    ,
    Henry Lebowitz
    ,
    Paul M. Rodel
    ,
    Jeffrey E. Ross
    ,
    Scott B. Selinger
    ,
    Patricia Volhard
    ,
    Joshua M. Samit
    ,
    John Young
    ,
    Spencer K. Gilbert
    ,
    Ryan T. Rafferty
  • The Devil in the Details: MFN Provisions and the Financing of Add-On Acquisitions
    November 2019
    Jeffrey E. Ross
    ,
    Scott B. Selinger
    ,
    Ryan T. Rafferty
  • Indenture Breach Ruling leads to Windstream Bankruptcy
    26 February 2019
    Jeffrey E. Ross
    ,
    Scott B. Selinger
    ,
    Ramya S. Tiller
    ,
    Ryan T. Rafferty

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  • Navigating Challenging Leveraged Financing Markets
    24 May 2023
    Practising Law Institute
    PLI Leveraged Financing 2023
    Webcast
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  • Leveraged Financing in 2022
    10 May 2022
    Practising Law Institute
    PLI Leveraged Financing in 2022
    New York, New York
    Speaking Engagements
  • Windstream Bankruptcy Implications
    12 March 2019
    BWG Strategy
    Podcast
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