Frank Ryan is a Partner and Head of Intellectual Property - New York

Frank Ryan has a broad-based practice with a particular emphasis on litigation and counseling clients in intellectual property, media and sports, and complex commercial matters.

Frank has run merger and acquisition teams in domestic and cross-border transactions involving media and sport and regularly counsels clients on content distribution agreements, as well as on intellectual property portfolio development and protection.

Frank has successfully taken a wide variety of cases to trial, such as patent disputes for medical device clients as well as trade secret, trademark, condemnation and a variety of complex commercial matters, and his clients turn to him as a go-to litigator and strategist for their most important matters.

Finally, Frank has represented several top US law firms in defense of legal malpractice claims.