Ryan S. Stippich is a shareholder in the firm's Litigation Practice, as well as a member of the Financial Markets Crisis Team. He represents clients in a wide range of complex civil and criminal matters at both the trial and appellate levels. Ryan focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation, with expertise in the areas of finance-related and white collar litigation, as well as products liability and products distribution litigation. 

Ryan is an author of the Securitized Mortgage and Loan Fraud Team's "Mortgage Meltdown" blog, and also recently presented at a legal education seminar called "Contract Litigation From A to Z in Wisconsin."  

Representative Matters and Experience

      Financial and White Collar Litigation:

• Representing a public company in defense of lawsuit by a dissident hedge fund shareholder. The trial court granted the company's motion for summary judgment, dismissing all of the hedge fund's claims against the company before trial
• Obtaining dismissal of a lawsuit against an actuarial professional on the pleadings in a case with a potential nine-figure damage exposure. The decision is reported at Trenwick Am. Corp v. Ernst & Young, 906 A.2d 168 (Del. Ch. 2006)
• Defending actuarial professionals against a $100 million professional negligence claim; obtaining a favorable settlement
• Representing manufacturers in response to procurement fraud investigations by the U.S. Department of Defense
• Representing publicly traded companies in the defense of securities fraud class action lawsuits and internal investigations in response to SEC fraud investigations

      Products Liability and Products Distribution:

• Defending of a multimillion dollar claim alleging the failure of mining conveyor equipment
• Obtaining a favorable settlement in defense of an engine distributor against breach of warranty claims
• Representing a manufacturer in the HVAC industry against claims that it improperly terminated a Wisconsin distributor. We obtained a highly favorable settlement at the summary judgment stage

Affiliation/Memberships

• State Bar of Wisconsin
• American Bar Association
• Wisconsin Law Review (managing editor)
• Worked at the Wisconsin Department of Justice in the Criminal Appeals Division, representing the State of Wisconsin before the Wisconsin Supreme Court and Courts of Appeals
• Admitted to practice before courts in Wisconsin and Illinois, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the United States District Courts in Wisconsin and the Northern District of Illinois

Education

• J.D., magna cum laude, University of Wisconsin Law School
• B.A., with honors, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Political Science)