Brian Gluck

Brian Gluck is a Partner in Simpson Thacher’s New York office and a member of the Firm’s Corporate Department. Brian’s primary area of concentration is banking and credit matters. Brian regularly advises leading private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in a variety of corporate finance transactions, including acquisition financings, bank and bridge loan financings, real estate financings, fund level financings, REIT financings and refinancing transactions. His clients have included Blackstone, Stonepeak Partners, DigitalBridge, Thomson Reuters, Gates Corporation, Medline Industries, Hilton, True Wind Capital, Change Healthcare and Technology Crossover Ventures. In 2009, Brian represented the U.S. Treasury Department concerning certain financing arrangements for the Legacy Securities Public-Private Investment Program.

Brian is recognized by Chambers USA in Banking & Finance as “cultivating high-level experience, counseling borrower-side clients on obtaining and amending complex credit facilities,” with clients reporting that he “is very commercial, very smart and understands the market" and “has excellent judgment and is fantastic to work with.”

Representative transactions on which Brian has worked include:

• Blackstone-affiliated funds in supporting the financing of the $8.4 billion acquisition, together with funds managed by Vista Equity Partners, of Smartsheet
• Affiliates of DigitalBridge Group in connection with the financing of a $3.3 billion tower transaction between Vertical Bridge and Verizon
• Ellucian Holdings in connection with its $2.07 billion term loan facility and $175.3 million revolving credit facility
• Summit Materials in connection with $1.4 billion financing for its combination with Argos North America 
• Blackstone, Carlyle and Hellman & Friedman in connection with their majority investment in Medline Industries, Inc. for $34 billion 
• Blackstone with several transactions, including its: acquisition of a majority stake in Emerson’s Climate Technologies business for $14 billion; $20 billion partnership with Thomson Reuters for the acquisition of Thomson Reuters' Financial & Risk Business; acquisition of QTS Realty Trust for $10 billion; $14.6 billion recapitalization of BioMed Realty 
• Change Healthcare in connection with its $13.8 billion combination with the Optum business unit of UnitedHealth Group 
• DigitalBridge and IFM Investors in connection with their acquisition of Switch, Inc. for $11 billion 
• Stonepeak in several transactions, including its: acquisition of Textainer Group Holdings for $7.4 billion; acquisition of Astound Broadband for $8.1 billion; acquisition of Intrado Corporation’s Safety business for $2.4 billion; acquisition of Teekay LNG Partners L.P. for $6.2 billion; acquisition of the Latin American business of Lumen Technologies for $2.7 billion 
• DigitalBridge in connection with its acquisition of Landmark Dividend for $1.1 billion; and acquisition of Boingo Wireless for over $850 million 
• Hilton Grand Vacations in connection with its acquisitions of Bluegreen Vacations for $1.5 billion and Diamond Resorts International for $1.4 billion
• Hilton Worldwide Holdings in connection with its refinancing of $8.6 billion of their senior secured bank facilities
• Centerbridge Partners, GenNx360, the Wychwood Trust and certain of their affiliates as sponsors in the global financial restructuring of the syncreon Group

Brian started his career at Simpson Thacher in 2006 and was made partner in 2016. He received his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School as well as a certificate in business and public policy from the Wharton School of Business in 2006. He earned a B.S. degree, summa cum laude, from Yeshiva University in 2003 and received the Dean’s Award for Scholastic Achievement in Finance.