Overview
Corporate Trust and Securitizations
Ryan has experience representing financial institutions in multiple jurisdictions in their roles as trustees, payment administrators, servicers and similar capacities. Ryan has been involved in trust instruction proceedings and defense of claims involving mortgage repurchases and breach of fiduciary, contractual, and statutory duties. His experience includes a trust instruction proceeding related to a multibillion-dollar RMBS settlement.
Appeals and Class Actions
Ryan has represented financial institutions and other business entities in state and federal court appeals involving lien priority disputes, federal consumer protection statutes, foreclosure defense and privacy statutes. In one matter, Ryan’s work led to reversal of a trial court order denying lien priority to a multimillion-dollar commercial mortgage and upholding a trial court order dismissing claims under the FDCPA. Ryan also defends clients against class actions involving claims under the UCC and consumer protection statutes, obtaining dismissal of a putative FDCPA class action.
Lender Liability and Consumer Protection Claims
Ryan is experienced in defending lender liability and consumer protection claims against financial institutions. His experience includes defending claims of fraud, enforceability of loan documents, and state and federal consumer protection statutes, such as Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA), Fair Housing Act (FHA), and Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA).
Complex Commercial Disputes
Ryan has litigated a wide variety of civil disputes in both state and federal court at the trial and appellate levels. Ryan has experience with complex financial models, bankruptcy preference actions and adversary proceedings, commercial foreclosures and receiverships, Uniform Commercial Code, contract disputes, trade secrets, and fiduciary duty.
Firm Leadership
Ryan is a member of the firm’s Financial Services Industry Team steering committee and co-chairs an industry team subcommittee.
Business Experience
Ryan spent several years as president of a small business that received national recognition as one of its industry's 100 best operations.
Faculty Positions
- Notre Dame Law School — Adjunct Professor, Deposition Skills
Services & Industries
Credentials
Bar Admissions
Illinois
Indiana
Michigan
Court Admissions
U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of Illinois
U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of Indiana
U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Education
Notre Dame Law School
J.D. cum laude, Journal of College and University Law (executive articles editor) (2009)
Indiana University
B.S. in Business Administration (2001)
Experience
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May 2018 1 min readDecades-Old Claim on Deceased Evangelist’s Estate Barred by Appeals CourtWealth Management Trust & Estate Litigation
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October 2017 1 min readAppellate Victory Against Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and Other ClaimsLitigation & Dispute Resolution Appellate Advocacy
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March 2016 1 min readNational Bank Gets Declaratory Judgment and Restitution Claims DismissedBanking & Finance Financial Services Securities & Financial Litigation Litigation & Dispute Resolution
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February 2016 1 min readNational Bank Resolves Interest in Bankruptcy Case Involving Public HousingBankruptcy, Insolvency & Corporate Restructuring Litigation & Dispute Resolution
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June 2015 1 min readNational Bank Prevails in Foreclosure AppealBanking & Finance Financial Services Litigation & Dispute Resolution Appellate Advocacy
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June 2015 1 min readNational Bank Wins Appeal to Assert Primacy of Mortgage Lien in ForeclosureBankruptcy, Insolvency & Corporate Restructuring Litigation & Dispute Resolution
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March 2015 1 min readInternational Financial Institution Obtains Favorable Trial OutcomeBanking & Finance Financial Services Securities & Financial Litigation Litigation & Dispute Resolution
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April 2011 1 min readFinancial Services Company Earns Reversal in Court of Appeals of IndianaBanking & Finance Financial Services Securities & Financial Litigation Litigation & Dispute Resolution Appellate Advocacy
Insights & Events
Latest
Insights
Other Perspectives
- Seventh Circuit Civil Appeals: Appellee's Brief, Reply Brief and Cross-Appeals
Co-author with Jane Dall Wilson, Practical Law Litigation Practice Note - Provisional Remedies: Indiana
Co-author with Carl A. Greci, Practical Law Litigation Practice Note - Appellate Civil Case Law Update
Co-author with D. Lucetta Pope, 56 Res Gestae 32, June 2013
Leadership & Community
Pro Bono
- National Immigrant Justice Center
Civic Activities
- Leadership South Bend/Mishawaka — Class XL, 2014
- Habitat for Humanity — Board of Directors, 2012-18; Board Officer, 2015-18
- Michiana Echo Soccer Club — Board of Directors, 2013-present; Strategic Planning Committee Chairperson, 2014-present; President, 2017-present
- St. Pius X Catholic Church — Parish Council, 2011-13; Strategic Planning Committee, 2011; Financial Resources Committee
Honors
- St. Joseph County Chamber of Commerce — Michiana Forty Under 40, 2016
- Faegre Baker Daniels — Pro Bono Honor Roll, 2014-16