Brian D. Murphy

Brian D. Murphy is a retired partner, resident in the New York office.  He has represented financial institutions and businesses in a wide variety of financing transactions, with a focus on those involving the senior component of the issuer's capital structure (both secured and unsecured).

Brian represented financial institutions in the structuring, documenting, negotiating and closing of senior secured credit facilities for sponsored acquisitions and other leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations and spinoffs, and senior syndicated loans to large corporate and middle-market borrowers.

Brian was consistently recognized in Finance: Commercial Lending by Legal 500, which notes that he "'seems to think about everything' and 'is very constructive, and focused on finding creative solutions to resolve disagreements and getting deals done'."

Work highlights:

• Bank of America, N.A. in  a $350m asset backed revolving credit facility to support the acquisition of Nestlé Waters North America (including the brands Poland Spring Brand 100% Natural Spring Water, Splash and Pure Life) by entities affiliated with One Rock Capital Partners, LLC. 
• Antares Capital LP in a $435m first lien term loan facility, a $160m second lien term loan facility and a $75m first lien revolving credit facility to finance the acquisition of Protective Industrial Products Inc. by Odyssey Investment Partners. 
• Antares Capital LP in a $291.4m first lien term loan facility, a $60m first lien delayed draw term loan facility, a $35m first lien revolving credit facility and a $87.42m second lien term loan facility to finance the acquisition of Service Champions by Odyssey Investment Partners.
• Bank of America, N.A., as administrative agent, in connection with a 2 year maturity extension on a $500m revolving credit commitment for Dave and Buster's, concurrent with a high yield notes offering and repayment of outstanding term loans.
• Bank of America, N.A., as administrative agent, on a new unsecured $1.5b investment grade revolving credit facility for Royalty Pharma Holdings. 
• Bank of America, N.A. and BofA Securities, Inc., as administrative agent and joint lead arranger, in $7.3b of new senior secured term credit facilities for entities affiliated with Royalty Pharma.
• Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. and Citibank, N.A., as the lead arranger and administrative agent, in a new $1.25b unsecured revolving credit facility for Athene Holding, which replaced its existing credit facility.
• Credit Suisse, as administrative agent and lead arranger, in a $405m financing to support the acquisition of Newell Process Solutions by One Rock Capital Partners.
• Citibank, as administrative agent and lead arranger, in a $1.248b financing for Allison Transmission, consisting of a $648m term loan and a $600m revolving credit facility. Simultaneously, Allison Transmission issued $500m in senior unsecured notes.
• Bank of America and Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, as joint lead arranger and administrative agent, in a $1.15b financing for Alliance Laundry Systems, consisting of a $1.025b term A loan and a $125m revolving credit facility.
• Citibank and Royal Bank of Canada in connection with $430.0m of first and second lien secured syndicated credit facilities to support the acquisition of Zest Dental by BC Partners.
• Bank of America Merrill Lynch, as administrative agent and lead arranger, in $61.5m of incremental first lien term loans for International Equipment Solutions (“IES”). IES used the proceeds of the incremental financing to prepay in full a second lien term loan facility provided by its private equity sponsor, KPS Partners.
• Credit Suisse AG and Credit Suisse Securities, as administrative agent and lead arranger, for the repricing of the $1.55b term loan facility incurred in October 2016 (as first amended in April 2017) to finance the acquisition of Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics by Onex Partners.
• Credit Suisse AG and Credit Suisse Securities, as administrative agent and lead arranger, in a proposed $350m term loan B to Warrior Met Coal.
• Barclays Bank and Nomura International, as arrangers, in a repricing of €1.024b of term Loans under SIG Combibloc Group's senior secured credit facilities.
• Bank of America Merrill Lynch, as administrative agent and lead arranger, in the amendment and restatement of International Equipment Solutions' ("IES") $215m term loan facility. The amended and restated credit agreement extended the maturity and changed the rate and amount of the existing term loans.
• Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Wells Fargo Bank and Regions Bank, as arrangers, in the repricing of the Dave & Buster's $800m revolving and term credit facilities.
• Bank of America Merrill Lynch, as administrative agent and lead arranger, for a $230m incremental term loan to finance a stock repurchase by Alliance Laundry Systems.
• Bank of America Merrill Lynch, as administrative agent and lead arranger, for $2.525b of term A loans to refinance existing loans of RPI Finance Trust. RPI Finance Trust is a privately held subsidiary of Royalty Pharma Investments.
• Bank of America Merrill Lynch, as administrative agent and lead arranger, for $1.1b of incremental term loans and $3.4b of refinancing term loans to support the purchase by Royalty Pharma of the Tysabri Multiple Sclerosis therapy from Perrigo.
• Credit Suisse AG and Credit Suisse Securities, as administrative agent and lead arranger, for $1.456b of term loans to refinance the term facilities incurred to finance the 2016 acquisition of Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics by Onex Partners.
• Bank of America Merrill Lynch, as administrative agent and lead arranger, for incremental term loans to finance a dividend recapitalization of Electrical Components International.
• Bank of America Merrill Lynch, as administrative agent and lead arranger, for a $135m incremental term loan to finance the acquisition by Electrical Components International of Fargo Assembly Company, Fargo Assembly of Europe Limited, Fargo Assembly of PA and Industrial Harness Company and in joining these acquired entities as subsidiary guarantors under the existing credit facility.
• Citigroup Global Markets and Citibank, N.A., as joint lead arranger and administrative agent, for $740m of term loans and a $250m ABL facility to finance the acquisition of Save-A-Lot Foods by Onex Partners.
• Credit Suisse AG, as administrative agent, and Credit Suisse Securities, as a joint lead arranger, for a $1.55b term B facility and a $175m multicurrency revolver backing the buyout of Thomson Reuters Intellectual Property & Science (n/k/a Clarivate Analytics) by Onex Partners and Baring Private Equity Asia.
• Citigroup Global Markets and Citibank, N.A., as joint lead arranger and administrative agent, on a $1.0b revolving credit facility to Athene Holding, Athene Life Re and Athene USA Corporation.
• Merrill Lynch and BMO Capital Markets, as arrangers, and Bank of America, as administrative agent, on $730.0m of revolving and term credit facilities to finance the acquisition of Alliance Laundry Systems by BDT Capital Partners.
• Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Wells Fargo Securities, as arrangers, and Bank of America, as administrative agent, on $500m of revolving and term A credit facilities for Dave & Buster's.
• Barclays, as administrative agent, for the refinancing of SIG Combibloc's €1.05b and $1.225b term loans.
• Barclays, as administrative agent and lead arranger, and Bank of America Merrill Lynch, as lead initial purchaser, and in the bank/bond financing for the €3.75b acquisition of the SIG Combibloc Group by Onex Corporation.
• Bank of America Merrill Lynch, as arrangers, of a $40m incremental term loan to Electrical Components International to finance the acquisition of Global Harness Systems, Inc.
• Bank of America Merrill Lynch in a $2.7b bridge financing for the acquisition by Royalty Pharma of royalties on Vertex Pharmaceuticals' cystic fibrosis treatments owned by Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics.
• JPMorgan in a $1.4b revolving credit facility for BE Aerospace.
• Bank of America Merrill Lynch in a $420m term loan for American Tire Distributors.
• Bank of America Merrill Lynch in a $310m credit facility to finance the acquisition of Electrical Components International by KPS.
• Bank of America Merrill Lynch in a $300m term loan to finance the acquisition by American Tire Distributors of Terry's Tire Town.
• Bank of Montreal and Bank of America Merrill Lynch in a $230m term loan to finance the acquisition by Alliance Laundry of Primus Group.
• Bank of America Merrill Lynch in the refinancing of RPI Finance Trust's $3.5b term loan facility.
• Citibank in a $500m revolving credit facility for Athene Life Re.
• Bank of America Merrill Lynch in a $270m term loan facility for International Equipment Solutions.
• Bank of America Merrill Lynch and JPMorgan in the $10.42b committed certain funds financing for the hostile tender offer by Royalty Pharma for Elan Corporation.
• Bank of America Merrill Lynch in several incremental term loans for Noranda Aluminum.
• Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Jefferies and Bank of Montreal in $260m credit facilities for Learning Care Group.
• Bank of America Merrill Lynch in the refinancing of Metaldyne's $415m term loan facility.
• Bank of America Merrill Lynch in incremental term loans for Alliance Laundry.
• Bank of America Merrill Lynch in the $620m financing for the acquisition of Metaldyne by American Securities.
• Credit Suisse in a $225m term loan B for Metals USA.
• Bank of America Merrill Lynch in the $560m 1st/2nd lien recapitalization of Alliance Laundry.
• Bank of America Merrill Lynch in the $850m refinancing of RP Select Finance Trust term loan facility.
• Bank of America Merrill Lynch in a $230m term loan B for Boomerang Tube.
• Bank of America Merrill Lynch in the $2.75b refinancing of RPI Finance Trust.
• JPMorgan in BE Aerospace's $950m revolving credit facility.
• Bank of America Merrill Lynch in several incremental term loans for RPI Finance Trust.
• Bank of America Merrill Lynch in $350m of credit facilities for Alliance Laundry.
• Bank of America Merrill Lynch in several incremental loans for HHI.
• Bank of America Merrill Lynch in a $325m term loan B and a $250m ABL credit facility for Noranda Aluminum.
• Bank of America Merrill Lynch in a $750m revolving credit facility for Life Technologies.