Ryan Kim is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is spearheading the firm’s private credit initiatives and focuses on advising creditors, asset managers and alternative capital sources on all aspects of financing transactions.
Ryan has a comprehensive and distinctive practice that spans the full life cycle of a credit investment, from capital deployment to liability management transactions and in-court and out-of-court restructurings for debtors and creditor groups. Ryan has extensive experience with leveraged acquisition and recapitalization transactions, syndicated loan financing, cash flow and asset-based lending, rescue financings, debtor-in- possession financings, out-of-court and in-court restructurings and special situation opportunities. He is particularly active in representing clients in the tech industry and is a market leader in the growth capital space and in middle market investments, including representing business development companies and opportunistic capital providers.
Awards and Accolades:
- New York Law Journal New York Legal Awards, “Rising Star” (2023)
- Euromoney’s Expert Guides, “Rising Star” (2022)
- The Deal, “Rising Star” (2021)
Representative Clients and Transactions*
Private Credit / Direct Lending
- Represented Vista Credit Partners as agent and lender in connection with a $340 million financing for a leading provider of life and annuity insurance technologies and a portfolio company of Eldridge Industries.
- Represented Vista Credit Partners as agent and lender in connection with a $108 million growth capital for a Dutch-based innovative hospitality management systems provider.
- Represented Vista Credit Partners as agent and lender in connection with a $125 million financing for a global leader in automated data movement.
- Represented Vista Credit Partners as agent and lender in connection with a $125 million financing for a leading healthcare data analytics platform.
- Represented Vista Credit Partners as agent and lender in connection with a $105 million financing for the largest global platform for working capital.
- Represented Kennedy Lewis Investment Management in connection with a $550 million senior secured term loan facility for an advanced energy management and generation company.
- Represented Kennedy Lewis Investment Management in connection with a $450 million senior secured term loan credit facilities to Eastman Kodak Company and its affiliates in connection with a refinancing of its existing debt.
- Represented Kennedy Lewis Investment Management in connection with a $50 million growth investment in Douglas Elliman Inc.
- Represented Brightwood Capital Advisors and Stone Point Credit as lenders under a $650 million unitranche credit facility in connection with a dividend recapitalization transaction of Giving Home Healthcare, a portfolio company of FS Investments.
- Represented Neuberger Neuman as lender in connection with a $150 million investment, comprised of $75 million term loan and $75 million convertible debt for a Canadian-based provider of restaurant management POS systems.
- Represented Neuberger Neuman as lender in connection with a $200 million term loan and delayed draw facilities for a leading wearable health and fitness tracking company.
- Represented UBS O'Connor as lenders to AE Industrial Partners in connection with its acquisition of a global specialty chemical company.
- Represented UBS O'Connor as lenders to Astara Capital Partners in connection with its acquisition of a leading building solutions company.
- Represented Turning Rock Partners in connection with growth capital investment to support Callaway Hudson Partners’ acquisition of ICON Parking.
- Represented Western Asset Management Company as lenders in connection with its investments in insurance wrapped notes.
Restructuring
- Represented Angelo Gordon and an ad hoc group of lenders in connection with a liability management transaction of a global tools and equipment company.
- Represented UBS O'Connor in connection with a debt for equity exchange and a change of control transaction in a marketing cloud and data analytics company.
- Represented Vista Credit Partners as agent and lender in connection with a $150 million conversion of hybrid equity to a senior secured term loan investment in a leading adtech company.
- Represented a consortium of lenders in connection with a strict foreclosure of assets securing first lien and second lien credit facilities of a healthcare company.
- Represented Kennedy Lewis in connection with a strict foreclosure of assets securing its senior secured credit facility of a fitness franchise.
- Represented an ad hoc group of first lien lenders and DIP financing lenders of Foresight Energy LP in connection with a restructuring of more than $1.4 billion of debt.
- Represented a consortium of hedge funds in connection with $1.0 billion second lien financing of SunEdison, Inc. and an ad hoc group of DIP lenders and rights offering backstoppers in the subsequent bankruptcy proceedings SunEdison, Inc. involving over $2.3 billion of gross asset sales.
- Represented an ad hoc group of first lien lenders of Walter Energy in connection with its $3.1 billion restructuring of Walter Energy through a 363 credit bid, and its successor company, Warrior Met Coal, in connection with a $125 million asset-based revolving credit facility, NYSE IPO and a $350 million offering of senior secured notes.
- Other matters include representing an ad hoc committee of senior unsecured noteholders in the bankruptcy proceedings of Pacific Gas and Electric Company, an ad hoc group of secured lenders in the bankruptcy proceedings of True Religion Apparel, Inc., an ad hoc group of noteholders in the bankruptcy proceedings of Hercules Offshore, and an ad hoc group of lenders in the restructuring and sale of Endeavour Energy.
Ryan earned his Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School where he was named a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. He received his Bachelor of Arts, with honors, from Johns Hopkins University.
*Includes work performed at a previous firm.
Capabilities
Credentials
Education:
- Columbia University - 2011 Juris Doctor
- Johns Hopkins University - 2008 Bachelor of Arts
Admissions:
- New York Bar