Ryan Blaine Bennett

Ryan Blaine Bennett is a partner in Kirkland & Ellis LLP's Restructuring Group in Chicago, where he focuses his practice on protecting and advancing the financial interests of corporate debt- ors and secured and unsecured creditors. He has played a principal role in representing sophisti- cated corporate debtors, investors and other key parties in some of the most complex restructuring cases and transactions during the past decade. In addition to his company-side representations, he regularly counsels a number of private-equity and investment fund clients, both in and out of court, with respect to acquisitions of distressed assets and investments and corporate governance matters. Mr. Bennett has represented clients across a number of industries, including Japan Airlines Corp., Lear Corp., DBSD North America, Petroflow Energy, Global Aviation Holdings and Insight Health Services. Most recently, he represented Syncora Holdings Ltd. and certain of its subsidiaries in connection with the City of Detroit's chapter 9 case. Law360 recently named Mr. Bennett as one of eight bankruptcy "Rising Stars for 2014." He received his B.A. from Michigan State University and his J.D. from the University of Notre Dame Law School.