Brian J. Mendick

Brian Mendick is Counsel in Simpson Thacher’s Tax Practice. Based in the Firm’s New York office, he advises clients on the tax aspects of a broad range of corporate matters, including fund formations, mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, debt restructurings and other bankruptcy matters, credit and capital markets financing transactions and real estate transactions. He has advised some of the world’s most sophisticated private fund sponsors, including Apollo, Blackstone and Platinum Equity, among others, on their important tax matters.

Brian’s representative tax experience includes advising:

• Apollo in the formation of Apollo S3 Private Markets Fund, a tender offer closed-end fund focused on traditional LP-led secondary investments in private funds and non-traditional GP-led secondary investments;
• Apollo Infrastructure Company, a non-traded holding company that operates and manages control-oriented infrastructure assets and finances infrastructure assets through controlled lending company subsidiaries;
• Blackstone in multiple fundraisings, including BREP Europe VI and BREP Asia II, and in its acquisitions of Liftoff, Vungle, PAG and Kohlberg & Co.;
• DigitalBridge and IFM Investors in their acquisition of Switch, Inc.;
• DigitalBridge in the formation and fundraising of its second flagship and largest fund to date, DigitalBridge Partners II, and of Digital Colony Partners, the first-ever investment fund to be solely dedicated to the digital infrastructure sector; an initial $6.4 billion equity investment round in Vantage Data Centers; a $3.3 billion tower transaction between Vertical Bridge and Verizon Communications Inc.; a $500 million structured financing round in Scala Data Centers; and in the formation of Articul8;
• Platinum Equity in the formation of Platinum Equity Capital Partners V and Platinum Equity Small Cap Fund;
• BC Partners in the formation and fundraising of Special Opportunities Fund II, which was oversubscribed at $1.2 billion;
• Centerbridge Partners in its strategic collaboration with Vectis Partners;
• La Quinta in the spin-off of CorePoint Lodging;
• PAG Real Assets in the formation and fundraising of PAG REN I, its first renewable energy-focused fund, and of PAG Real Estate Partners III; and
• Technology Crossover Ventures in the formation of TCV XI and TCV X, which closed at $4 billion and $3 billion, respectively.

Brian received his J.D., magna cum laude and Order of the Coif, from New York University School of Law, where he was a Florence Allen Scholar. He received his B.Sc. in Finance, Accounting and Communications with Highest Honors from Rochester Institute of Technology, where he was the recipient of the Outstanding Scholar Award. He is admitted to practice in New York.