As a partner in the Corporate & Private Equity group, Brian represents investment funds and strategic acquirers in connection with mergers, acquisitions, investments, divestitures and other strategic and financial investment activities, with a particular focus on debt financing structures.
In addition to his corporate practice, he advises Fintech clients with respect to the development of new financial products.
Experience
- Representation of a finance company in connection with a $75 million structured credit facility to auto finance company.
- Representation of a finance company in connection with a $18 million structured credit facility to commercial finance company.
- Representation of a bank in connection with $210 million and €30 million cross-border credit facility to international agricultural producer.
- Representation of a hedge fund lender in connection with $73 million cross-border credit facility to online retailer.
- Representation of a hedge fund lender in connection with $28.5 million construction financing facility to biotechnology company.
- Representation of a bank in connection with $50 million acquisition financing to sponsor portfolio company used to effectuate purchase of internet search engine.
- Representation of an administrative agent in connection with $62 million credit facility to coal company.
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University of California College of the Law, San FranciscoJD
cum laude
2007 -
University of Notre DameBAHistory
magna cum laude
2004
- Moderator, "Structuring Appropriate Credit Alternatives in the “New Normal”," 2023 Independent Sponsor Conference, October 4, 2023
- Author, Is the Future of the Dollar Digital? The Fed Talks Updating Greenbacks to the Blockchain, Consumer FinSights, May 26, 2022
- Author, SEC Signals Enhanced Focus on Crypto Assets by Expanding the Enforcement Unit Tasked With Protecting Crypto Markets, Consumer FinSights, May 3, 2022
- Author, Fed: Let’s Talk Central Bank Digital Currencies, Consumer FinSights, February 7, 2022
- Author, End of the Road: Federal Reserve Issues Guidance for Winding Down Main Street Lending Program, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, November 25, 2020
- Author, Main Street Lending Program Opens to Nonprofits, Multiborrower Loans, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, November 12, 2020
- Author, Federal Reserve Extends, Expands Main Street Lending Program, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, July 31, 2020
- Author, Federal Reserve Updates Main Street Lending Program Guidance Following Launch, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, July 17, 2020
- Author, Main Street Lending Program Now Open, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, July 6, 2020
- Author, Federal Reserve Opens Main Street Lending Program to Lenders, Releases Nonprofit Proposals, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, June 18, 2020
- Author, Federal Reserve Tweaks Terms of Main Street Lending Program Ahead of Launch, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, June 12, 2020
- Author, Main Street Lending Program: (Almost) Open for Business, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, May 29, 2020
- Author, Federal Reserve Expands Scope of the Main Street Lending Program, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, May 1, 2020
- Author, Fintech Lenders Approved to Participate in the Paycheck Protection Program, Consumer FinSights, April 15, 2020
- Author, U.S. Business Relief During COVID-19 (Part I): Low-Interest Economic Injury Disaster Loans, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, March 19, 2020
- Author, U.S. Business Relief During COVID-19 (Part II): SBIC Debentures for Small Businesses, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, March 19, 2020
- California
- Guest, "I.S. Interview: Columbia River Partners; Insights into Credit Markets with Capstone Headwaters," Deal-by-Deal: An Independent Sponsor Podcast, March 30, 2021
- Guest, "Lenders as Partners, With Source Capital’s Joe Rodgers and McGuireWoods’ Brian Coughlan," Deal-by-Deal: An Independent Sponsor Podcast, September 1, 2022
- Host, Yield Maintenance: A Debt Finance Podcast, Ongoing Series
- Host, "How to Utilize Mezzanine Financing During COVID-19," Yield Maintenance: A Debt Finance Podcast, July 24, 2020
- Host, "The Ins and Outs of the Main Street Lending Program," Yield Maintenance: A Debt Finance Podcast, July 6, 2020