Matthew Bryant Gatrell (Bryant)

Bryant Gatrell focuses his practice on the representation of financial institutions in leveraged, asset based and investment grade financings, as well as workouts and restructurings.  Bryant has extensive experience representing Fortune 50 financial institutions, private debt funds, BDC's, bondholders, lender groups, and other material stakeholders in complex financings throughout the capital structure, including unitranche and cross-border financings, in-court and out-of-court business reorganizations and debt restructurings.

With more than twenty-five years of experience, Bryant helps clients structure, negotiate and close financial transactions and restructurings in a wide array of industries, including telecom, media and technology, infrastructure, retail, restaurant, franchise and hospitality, healthcare and pharmaceutical, defense and aerospace, energy, transportation, commercial real estate and general industrial. Clients rely on his knowledge of the market and his commercial approach to closing deals to provide superior service to their customers in an increasingly competitive environment. 

Some of Bryant’s recent significant representations include advising:  Antares Capital LP, as agent and lead arranger, in a $3,610,000,000 unitranche facility for a diversified insurance brokerage company; Webster Bank, N.A., as agent and lead arranger, in connection with Everstream Solutions, LLC’s purchase of fiber assets out of the Chapter 11 bankruptcy of Great Lakes Comnet and Comlink; Capital One, National Association, as agent, in connection with an asset based lending facility for an e-commerce company providing outdoor cooking and living products; Capital One, N.A., as agent and lead arranger, in connection with an asset based facility for bbq grill manufacturer; Golub Capital LLC, as agent and arranger, in connection with a secured credit facility to finance the acquisition of an addiction treatment company; Marathon Asset Management, Churchill Asset Management, MJX Asset Management and Allianz in connection with a super senior term loan to one of the largest car rental wholesale companies; Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as agent and arranger, in providing senior secured credit facilities for a multi-state operator of television stations and newspapers; a steering committee of term loan lenders of Vince, LLC; Goldman Sachs, Cerberus Capital Management, Arbour Lane Capital Management and other members of an ad hoc group of first lien and second lien lenders in an out-of-court restructuring of $450,000,000 in debt to a leading provider of visual marketing products for retailers, restaurants, movie studios and other entertainment companies, and medical service providers; U.S. Bank, N.A., as administrative agent and arranger, in connection a $3,750,000,000 vehicle floorplan facility for one of the largest automotive retailers in the United States; and Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands Branch, as agent, and a steering committee of senior secured lenders in the prepackaged Chapter 11 cases of Fairway Group Holdings Corp.