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Brandt M. Tierney

Tierney_Brandt

Brandt M. Tierney

Partner

Boston + 1 617 526 6018

Brandt Tierney has developed a trusted general corporate practice, with a particular focus on advising corporate and lending clients through a diverse range of debt financing transactions. He has a broad range of significant experience representing financial institutions and public and private companies active across a variety of industries, including manufacturing, financial services, life sciences and technology.

Mr. Tierney also has experience counseling clients in a variety of other corporate-related matters, including corporate governance and mergers and acquisitions.

Prior to joining WilmerHale, Mr. Tierney was an associate at another large international law firm in New York, focusing on the representation of financial institutions in a broad range of bank financing transactions. 

Experience

  • Credit Facilities

    • Represented MKS Instruments, Inc. in connection with the financing for its acquisition of Atotech Limited, including $4.6 billion secured USD term facilities, a €600 million secured Euro term facility and a $500 million secured revolving credit facility; represented MKS Instruments in the successful repricing of its existing $3.6 billion secured tranche B term loans.
    • Represented Akamai Technologies, Inc. in connection with a $500 million unsecured revolving credit facility.
    • Represented CIRCOR International, Inc. in connection with the refinancing of its credit facilities, including a $530 million secured term facility and a $100 million secured revolving credit facility.
    • Represented WEX Inc. in connection with the refinancing of its credit facilities, including $2.4 billion secured term facilities and a $930 million secured revolving credit facility.
    • Represented Danaher Corporation in connection with $10 billion unsecured revolving credit facilities.
    • Represented Afiniti, Inc. in connection with its secured term loan facilities.
    • Represented Nofar Energy in connection with its $91 million acquisition of Blue Sky Utility, including a $26 million initial purchase and a debt facility of $65 million provided by Nofar Energy to Blue Sky Utility.
    • Represented lender in connection with $250 million secured term loan facilities and a $20 million secured revolving credit facility for a financial services company.

  • Restructurings, Workouts and Debtor-In-Possession and Exit Financings

    • Represented GLAS USA and certain of its affiliates as agents in connection with the super-priority term loan facilities, debtor-in-possession credit facilities and exit financing credit facilities of Murray Energy Holdings and its successor American Consolidated Natural Resources.
    • Represented Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB as agent in connection with the term loan facilities, bridge loan facilities, debtor-in-possession credit facilities and exit financing credit facilities of Westmoreland Coal Company and its successor Westmoreland Mining Holdings.
    • Represented the holders of a majority in a dollar amount of first lien notes issued by LBI Media, Inc. in the completed sale of their notes.

Recognition

  • Recognized in the 2024-2026 editions of Chambers USA Guide for Banking & Finance. 
  • Selected by peers for inclusion in the 2023 edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch for corporate law. 

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Credentials

  • Education

    • JD, Tulane University Law School, 2013

      summa cum laude Editor, Tulane Law Review, Order of the Coif

    • BA, College of the Holy Cross, 2010

      cum laude

  • Admissions

    • Massachusetts

    • District of Columbia

    • New York

Credentials

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