Ryan O’Connor Corporate and Commercial Lawyer
Assistant
Biography
Ryan joined Patterson Law as a student in the summers of 2018 and 2019 and returned in 2020 as an articled clerk. Upon being called to the Bar in June of 2021, Ryan joined our Corporate/Commercial practice group.
Prior to his legal career, Ryan underwrote commercial loans and managed commercial banking clients as a Commercial Account Manager with a national financial institution. This experience in commercial financing and risk management is a great asset when advising clients on commercial transactions.
- Incorporation and structuring of businesses
- Purchase and sale of businesses, mergers and acquisitions, asset and share transactions
- Shareholders’ Agreements
- Commercial leasing
- Purchase and sale of real estate
- Secured lending, domestic and international borrowing and lending, syndicated loans
- University Scholar, Acadia 2015
- Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society
- Canadian Bar Association
- Cole Harbour Minor Hockey Coach (2019 – Present)
- Dalhousie Pro Bono Tenants Rights Program (2017-2019)
- Bar Admission: Nova Scotia, 2021
- J.D. (Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, 2020)
- B.A., Finance (Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, 2015)