David B. Ryan is a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP and a member of the Finance & Financial Institutions and Public Finance Practices.
Mr. Ryan has over 20 years experience in student loan finance, including FFELP and private loan program development, warehouse financings and term securitizations, and portfolio purchases and sales. He has been a frequent panelist at Education Finance Council and National Council of Higher Education Loan Program conferences and seminars, and played a major role in the development of the first common form of FFELP promissory note.
Mr. Ryan has extensive experience in revenue bond financings, including as bond counsel, underwriter's or purchaser's counsel, and borrower's counsel. He also frequently represents financial institutions in providing credit and liquidity facilities for taxable and tax-exempt debt financings.
In 2010 and 2011, the Legal 500 recognized Mr. Ryan for structured finance. He was also selected by his peers for inclusion in the 2011 and 2012 editions of The Best Lawyers in America® in the specialty of structured finance law.
A native of Alton, Illinois, Mr. Ryan was a 1981 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Coe College. He graduated, magna cum laude, from the University of Illinois College of Law in 1984, where he served on the University of Illinois Law Forum and was elected to the Order of the Coif. Mr. Ryan is a member of the National Association of Bond Lawyers.