Bryant Gatrell

Bryant Gatrell is a partner in our Finance & Restructuring Practice Group. He focuses his practice on the representation of financial institutions in leveraged, asset based and investment grade financings, workouts and restructurings.

Bryant has extensive experience representing Fortune 50 financial institutions, investment funds, business development companies (BDCs), bondholders, lender groups, and other material stakeholders in complex financings throughout the capital structure, including cross-border financings, in-court and out-of-court business reorganizations and debt restructurings.

With more than two decades of experience, Bryant helps clients structure, negotiate and close financial transactions and restructurings in a wide array of industries, including telecom, media and technology, 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:  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; GSO Capital Partners in connection with the Chapter 11 cases of Roadhouse Holding Inc. (a/k/a Logan’s Roadhouse); 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; 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.

EDUCATION:

• J.D., University of Michigan Law School
• B.A., English, University of Missouri-Columbia

ADMISSIONS:

• North Carolina