Ryan Maupin

Ryan guides companies and their stakeholders through every stage of financial distress, from liquidity and cost reduction to Chapter 11 and asset sales. He is often called upon to step in, stabilize operations, and lead organizations through critical transitions in the U.S. and abroad.

Prior to joining Ankura, Ryan was the U.S. and Americas Practice Leader for Turnaround & Restructuring at a Big Four firm. Earlier, he held restructuring and corporate finance roles at a global professional services firm and an investment banking advisory firm, including an international secondment in the Cayman Islands. He also served as CFO of a privately held company with operations in the U.S. and Italy.

In 2017, Ryan was named to the American Bankruptcy Institute’s inaugural “40 Under 40” class, recognizing leading bankruptcy, insolvency, and restructuring professionals in the U.S. He currently serves on the ABI Board of Directors.

Select Engagement Experience

• Marelli Automotive Lighting – Advised a major OEM party-in-interest in the debtors’ Chapter 11 cases.
• First Brands Group – Served as financial and M&A advisor to strategic buyers of the debtors’ engine components business.
• Hudson Technologies – Served as CRO, leading the company through a successful out-of-court restructuring.
• A&B Valve and Piping Systems – Served as interim CEO, leading the sale of the company’s oilfield valve, piping systems, and casing businesses through a §363 process.
• Harvest Natural Resources – Served as financial advisor through the company’s structured, solvent wind-down and dissolution following the sale of its oil and gas interests in Gabon and Venezuela.
• Global Manufacturing Corporation – Advised on the solvent wind-down and asset optimization of a legacy automotive components manufacturing site, overseeing a structured asset transition and facility closure.
• New York State Special Funds Conservation Committee – Served as trustee overseeing the organization’s solvent wind-down.
• Northeastern Religious Institution – Served as financial advisor during a high-profile legal and debt crisis, executing the divestiture of a healthcare network and a long-term cemetery lease to avert default and restructure operations.
• National Museum of American Jewish History – Served as financial advisor to the debtor through its Chapter 11 case and successful emergence.
• Red Lobster – Served as financial advisor to the prepetition senior secured lenders, DIP lenders, and stalking-horse bidder in the Chapter 11 case.
• Subway Restaurants (Doctor’s Associates LLC) – Advised the master franchisor during Subway do Brasil Ltda.’s judicial restructuring in Brazil.
• RT Holdings, Inc. (Ruby Tuesday) – Advised the senior secured lenders in the Chapter 11 case.
• CraftWorks Holdings (Logan’s Roadhouse) – Advised the senior secured lenders in the Chapter 11 case.
• Restaurants Unlimited, Inc. – Advised the senior lender group in the Chapter 11 case.
• Ignite Restaurant Group (Joe’s Crab Shack) – Served as financial advisor to the administrative agent in the Chapter 11 case.
• Sur La Table – Served as financial advisor to the senior lender, DIP lender, and stalking-horse bidder, structuring the credit bid that anchored a successful §363 sale.
• Electrical Supply Distributor ($550 Million Revenue) – Advised on an out-of-court restructuring of the company’s debt.
• The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas – Led cost-reduction initiatives as part of a broader restructuring ahead of the property’s $1.73 billion sale to The Blackstone Group.
• Kuwait Finance House – Led the restructuring of £97 million of UK real estate development debt tied to a mixed-use project in Bristol, UK.
• Eagle Bulk Shipping – Served as financial advisor to the senior lenders of the dry bulk shipper, then in default on $1.1 billion of debt.
• Saad Group – Served on the Joint Official Liquidators’ team leading the winding-up of certain Cayman Islands entities of Saad Investments Company Limited, a principal investment firm with reported assets of approximately $9.2 billion.