Senior Banking Partner, Retired
CurrentLegal & Business Expertise: Senior banking partner (retired), advising banks and their non-bank affiliates as lead arrangers, underwriters and lenders on large syndicated and clubbed leveraged loans. These financings generally supported private equity and financial sponsor leveraged buyouts and portfolio company acquisitions, as well as general corporate working capital and acquisition facilities. Please see the following link for a list of representative transactions https://www.friedfrank.com/our-people/brian-murphy.Specialized Expertise:• Thorough understanding of financial statements, cash flow, asset and collateral leakage (particularly through “unrestricted and excluded subsidiaries”, EBITDA add-backs, financial definitions, negative covenant exclusions, excluded collateral, unperfected security interests and structural subordination).• Long experience with all aspects of credit underwriting, documentation and deal execution.• Market knowledge and skill at consensus building.• Experienced through all credit cycles.Role: Clients relied on me to help them oversee negotiations, protect their interests and forge consensus. As the legal deal team leader, I effectively accommodated the deal sponsors, their portfolio companies and counsel by identifying areas of compromise and crafting constructive and creative solutions to tough issues.Leadership: Active deal team head, with substantial responsibility for motivating peers and support teams. I interviewed, trained and mentored many young lawyers, successfully encouraging them to strive always for excellence, leading many to partnerships internally and externally and to important business roles externally.
