Education
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Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, J.D., 1984
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Northwestern University School of Law
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University of Illinois, B.A., 1981
Bar Admissions
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Deborah Ryan serves as Co-Chair of the firm’s Business Department and is the immediate past Chair of the Real Estate Practice Group. She has devoted her practice to all aspects of commercial real estate development and financing. She has represented both landlords and tenants in leases ranging from long term ground leases to office leases. She has represented both owners and purchasers in the acquisition and renegotiation of large multistate portfolios of real estate and partnership interests and large debt portfolios. Ms Ryan represents one of Wall Street’s largest banks in connection with real estate construction lending and some of the nation’s most active commercial real estate developers in connection with development and redevelopment of complex, high profile properties, including historic properties, many of which involve economic incentives from cities and counties in the form of tax increment financing, tax abatements or other economic development tools.
Ms. Ryan began her practice in 1984 not long before the S&L crisis. For many years, her practice focused almost exclusively on real estate workouts and foreclosures. She also assisted in numerous real estate single asset bankruptcies and structured workouts. Ms. Ryan is currently advising lenders, developers and investors on distressed debt and assets, default strategy, real estate workouts, pre-foreclosure strategy, foreclosure and acquisition and disposition of distressed real estate and debt.
Ms. Ryan also uses her deal management and real property skills serving renewable energy clients. She is an active member of the Patton Boggs Renewable Energy Team comprised of business, policy and regulatory lawyers representing lenders and developers and service providers in the renewable energy sector. She has acted as lead Texas counsel for several large wind farm loans where the Patton Boggs Renewable Energy Team provided a wide range of legal advice including real estate, FAA, FERC, NERC, PUC, ERCOT and environmental advice. She has also worked on site development agreements for wind farm development projects.
She has a strong working relationship with the City of Dallas, including the mayor’s office, members of city council, the city manager and assistance city managers, the city attorney’s office and numerous departments throughout the city from the Department of Economic Development to the Department of Development Services. Throughout the course of her career and from her years of practicing in the Dallas region, Ms. Ryan has developed a strong network of relationships at all levels of city and county government and regularly engages with the city on matters of all size and scope. She is a recognized authority in mixed-use, high rise, condominium developments.
Representative Matters
- Represent tenant in connection with a 116,000 square foot lease of office space in the then under construction office tower now known as 2000 McKinney Ave., Dallas, Texas.
- Represent tenant in connection with a 100,000 square foot lease of office space in the office tower known as Trammell Crow Center, Dallas Texas.
- Represent Palm Harbor Homes in connection with the renegotiation of its existing Headquarters office lease in the office tower known as the Colonnade Building, Dallas, Texas.
- Represent Mizuho Corporate Bank, Banco Espirito Santo, Bayerische Landesbank, Commerzbank, HSH Nordbank and ING Capital as Texas real estate and Texas and federal regulatory counsel (including FERC, NERC, FAA and environmental) in connection with a loan to an affiliate of San Francisco-based Pattern Energy Group secured by a 283 megawatt wind farm project commonly known as 'Texas Gulf Wind' located in Kenedy County, Texas.
- Represent Mizuho Corporate Bank, Bayerische Landesbank, HSH Nordbank AG, Banco Espirito Santo, S.A., Bayerische Landesbank, Norddeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale as Texas real estate and Texas and federal regulatory counsel (including FERC, NERC, FAA and environmental) in connection with the renewal, modification and extension of a loan to an affiliate of NRG Energy, Inc secured by a 101 Mega Watt (44 Units of 2.3 MW Siemens wind turbines) South Trent wind farm located in Nolan and Taylor Counties, Texas near Sweetwater, Texas.
- Represent JPMorganChase and JPMorganChase, as successor in interest to WaMu, in connection with construction lending, work outs, foreclosures and modification of debt and post-default analysis and strategy for projects located throughout the United States. Many of these loans involve complexities associated with mid-construction defaults, syndicated debt and mezzanine financing.
- Represented a sovereign wealth fund in connection with the restructure of its partnership agreement and financing arrangement with Lehman Brothers and TPG regarding a portfolio of office buildings located in downtown Austin, in a transaction worth more than $1.4 billion which was approved by the bankruptcy court for the Lehman bankruptcy.
- Represented a sovereign wealth fund in connection with its majority interest investment in a partnership with a major New York real estate development firm and the related acquisition and financing by that partnership of the Chrysler Building in New York.
- Represented DFW International Airport in connection with the repositioning of its relationship with the owners of the DFW Hyatt West Tower and the construction of the new International Terminal D with a new 380-room luxury Hyatt Hotel.
- Represented JPMorganChase in connection with a construction loan to PNL Companies relative to the repositioning of the Tandy Center in Fort Worth, Texas.
- Represented JPMorganChase in connection with a $38 million construction loan and a subsequent $38 million Tenant Improvement Loan to an affiliate of Archon Development for the redevelopment of a warehouse located in Philadelphia to be used as the administrative office of the Philadelphia Independent School District.
- Represented JPMorganChase in connection with a $45 million loan to an affiliate of Macfarlan Development for a build-to-suit for Intel Corporation in Parsippany, New Jersey.
- Represented Palladium, a division of The Related Companies, in connection with obtaining a $45 million TIF financing for public improvements in a high-density, mixed-use urban development surrounding the American Airlines Center in downtown Dallas.
- Represented JPMorganChase in connection with a $178 million financing secured by downtown Fort Worth Office Towers and other collateral.
- Represented Bank of America in connection with a $35 million loan to an affiliate of Cardinal Capital Corporation secured by a portfolio of Circuit City stores located in 12 states.
- Represented Harwood International in connection with the development of the Azure Condominiums.
- Represented TLC Green Property Associates I in connection with the purchase and redevelopment and subsequent sale of the Tower at Sundance, formerly known as Bank One Tower in Fort Worth, Texas, including acquisition and construction financing, construction, documentation, creation of vertical mixed use condominiums and other development related legal work.
- Represented Lehman Brothers in connection with an $80 million conversion to condominiums of 1200 Main Street, an office building in downtown Dallas.
Professional Affiliations:
- Dallas Bar Association
- Texas Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- Texas Bar Foundation
- The Real Estate Council (Board of Directors, 1995-2003, 2005-08; Executive Committee, 1997-99)
- The Real Estate Council Foundation (Vice-Chair, 1997-99)
- Downtown Dallas (Board of Directors 1999-present; Executive Committee 2001-02)
- Mayor’s Downtown Dallas Task Force (2008-present)
- American Red Cross (Board of Directors, 2002-06), (Vice-Chair, 2003-06)
- Preservation Dallas (Board of Directors, 2002-03)
- Center For Housing Resources (Board of Directors, 2000-03; Advisory Board, 2003-05)
- The Dallas Assembly (1997-present)
- Leadership Dallas (Class of 1991)
- Leadership Dallas Alumni Association (1991-present)
- Dallas Center for the Performing Arts President's Advisory Council
- Urban Land Institute
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