Brian Sullivan represents agents, arrangers, commercial lenders, and corporate sponsors and borrowers in a wide variety of finance transactions, including banking, acquisition, leveraged, transportation, and project finance, as well as real estate lending. Brian represents clients in connection with their unsecured and secured first and second lien facilities and asset-based facilities, across a broad range of industries, including government contracting, health care, medical devices, retail, industrials, construction, energy, oil and gas, technology, and fintech. He regularly works on loan originations to finance acquisitions as well as restructurings and amendments to existing facilities involving financially healthy, stressed, and distressed borrowers.
Brian's practice includes cross-border and multicurrency financing transactions. Additionally, he represents lenders and borrowers in connection with workouts and restructurings of distressed credits, including out-of-court restructurings and debtor-in-possession financings and exit financings.
The financial institution clients that Brian has significant experience representing include, among others, PNC Bank, Citibank, Jefferies, and Koch Industries. He also represents a number of private equity firms, including American Pacific Group, The Riverside Company, Blue Point Capital, and Graycliff Partners, as well as corporations, including Coronado Global Resources, Montauk Energy Holdings, Materion Corporation, and NerdWallet.
Prior to joining Jones Day, Brian was an associate in the finance practice in the New York City office of an international law firm.
Esperienze
- Hofstra University (J.D. cum laude 2014; Editor-in-Chief, Hofstra Law Review); Pennsylvania State University (B.A. summa cum laude 2011, Schreyer Honors College; Phi Beta Kappa)
- Pennsylvania and New York
Chambers USA — banking & finance (2023): "Brian Sullivan of Jones Day is a talented associate who is held in high regard for his commercial lending work"
The Best Lawyers in America, "Ones to Watch," banking and finance law (2023 & 2024)