Overview
Ryan Messina is a corporate restructuring attorney on the firm's finance and restructuring team. Ryan represents various parties in business bankruptcy and corporate restructuring matters, including official and unofficial committees, secured and unsecured creditors, debtors, and other parties. He is also a certified public accountant (inactive).
Prior Experience
Prior to joining Faegre Drinker, Ryan was an associate at a national law firm where he represented a wide variety of clients in business bankruptcy and restructuring matters.
During law school, Ryan served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Paul R. Wallace of the Delaware Superior Court–Complex Commercial Litigation Division. Ryan also served as a member of the Moot Court Honor Society, Transactional Law Honor Society, and as external managing editor of the Delaware Journal of Corporate Law.
Personal Interests
Ryan is an avid golfer and Philadelphia sports fan.
Related Legal Services
Credentials
Bar Admissions
Delaware
Pennsylvania
Court Admissions
U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Education
Widener University Delaware Law School
J.D. cum laude, The Delaware Journal of Corporate Law (external managing editor) (2020)
Pennsylvania State University
Bachelor's Degree in Business, with distinction (2015)
Insights & Events
Other Perspectives
- Dividing Love: How Bankruptcy Proceedings and State Laws Separate Pets From Their Owners
Co-author, American Bankruptcy Institute Journal (June 2024) - Is the ACA Penalty Entitled to Priority Treatment as a Tax Under the Bankruptcy Code?
Co-author, American Bankruptcy Institute Journal (Oct. 2022) - The Rising Trend in Administrative Claimants Programs Leading to "Agreement" to a Lesser Treatment in Major Retail Cases
Co-author, National Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice, Vol. 30, No. 6 (Dec. 2021) - Does Federal Common Law Define a Business Trust's Eligibility for Chapter 11?
Co-author, American Bankruptcy Institute Journal (Oct. 2021) - Pressed for Time: A Real Estate Purchaser's Right to Invoke Section 108(B) to Extend the Time for Performance When the Contract Provides That Time Is of the Essence
Co-author, National Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice (Dec. 2020) - Section 510 — Subordination, Recent Developments
Co-author, Norton Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law (Aug. 2020)
Leadership & Community
Professional Associations
- Delaware Bankruptcy Inn of Court
- Delaware Bar Association
- American Bankruptcy Institute
- Turnaround Management Association
Honors
- National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges — 2023 Next Generation Program (NextGen)
- American Bankruptcy Law Journal Award Winner, 2020
This award recognizes the JD student who has earned the highest grade in a bankruptcy class at any ABA-accredited U.S. law school. - William Prickett Corporate & Business Law Scholarship Recipient, 2020
This scholarship is awarded to a JD student who has academically excelled in the study of corporate law and civil litigation.
No aspect of these recognitions has been approved by the highest court of any state.