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 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.
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Work Highlights
- Blackstone, Carlyle and Hellman & Friedman in connection with their majority investment in Medline Industries, Inc. for $34.0 billion
- Blackstone in connection with its acquisition of a majority stake in Emerson’s Climate Technologies business for $14.0 billion
- Blackstone in connection with its $20 billion partnership with Thomson Reuters for the acquisition of Thomson Reuters' Financial & Risk Business
- Change Healthcare in connection with its $13.8 billion combination with the Optum business unit of UnitedHealth Group
- Blackstone in connection with its acquisition of QTS Realty Trust for $10 billion
- Blackstone in connection with its $14.6 billion recapitalization of BioMed Realty
- DigitalBridge and IFM Investors in connection with their acquisition of Switch, Inc. for $11 billion
- Stonepeak in connection with its acquisition of Astound Broadband for $8.1 billion
- Stonepeak in connection with its definitive agreement to acquire Intrado Corporation’s Safety business for $2.4 billion
- Stonepeak in connection with its acquisition of Xplornet Communications for $2.0 billion
- Stonepeak in connection with its acquisition of Teekay LNG Partners L.P. for $6.2 billion
- Stonepeak in connection with its 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
- Blackstone in connection with its acquisition of Ancestry for $4.7 billion
- Blackstone in connection with its $5.4 billion acquisition of Gates Corporation
- Hilton Grand Vacations in connection with its acquisition of Diamond Resorts International for $1.4 billion
- DigitalBridge in connection with its acquisition of Boingo Wireless for over $850 million
- Hilton Worldwide Holdings in connection with its refinancing of $8.6 billion of their senior secured bank facilities
- Vodafone Group Plc in connection with the sale of its interest in Verizon Wireless for $130 billion
- The ADT Corporation in connection with its $15 billion sale to affiliates of Apollo Global Management
- Blackstone and Invitation Homes in connection with its $2.075 billion revolving credit facility
- Blackstone and Equity Office Properties in connection with a refinancing of CMBS and other debt with a $3.5 billion senior bank facility
- Blackstone and Corsair Capital in connection with their majority investment in First Eagle Investment Management and $1.5 billion senior bank facility
- DigitalBridge and Stonepeak in connection with the recapitalization of ExteNet Systems, Inc. for over $1 billion
- Centerbridge Partners, GenNx360, the Wychwood Trust and certain of their affiliates as sponsors in the global financial restructuring of the syncreon Group
- Technology Crossover Ventures in its acquisition of a controlling interest in Watermark Insights
- True Wind Capital in its investment in Transflo
Education
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University of Pennsylvania Law School, 2006 J.D.
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Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, 2006 Certificate in Business and Public Policy
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Yeshiva University, 2003 B.S.
Dean's Award for Scholastic Achievement in Finance; summa cum laude
Associations
- New York State Bar Association
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 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, Carlyle and Hellman & Friedman in connection with their majority investment in Medline Industries, Inc. for $34.0 billion
- Blackstone in connection with its acquisition of a majority stake in Emerson’s Climate Technologies business for $14.0 billion
- Blackstone in connection with its $20 billion partnership with Thomson Reuters for the acquisition of Thomson Reuters' Financial & Risk Business
- Change Healthcare in connection with its $13.8 billion combination with the Optum business unit of UnitedHealth Group
- Blackstone in connection with its acquisition of QTS Realty Trust for $10 billion
- Blackstone in connection with its $14.6 billion recapitalization of BioMed Realty
- DigitalBridge and IFM Investors in connection with their acquisition of Switch, Inc. for $11 billion
- Stonepeak in connection with its acquisition of Astound Broadband for $8.1 billion
- Stonepeak in connection with its definitive agreement to acquire Intrado Corporation’s Safety business for $2.4 billion
- Stonepeak in connection with its acquisition of Xplornet Communications for $2.0 billion
- Stonepeak in connection with its acquisition of Teekay LNG Partners L.P. for $6.2 billion
- Stonepeak in connection with its 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
- Blackstone in connection with its acquisition of Ancestry for $4.7 billion
- Blackstone in connection with its $5.4 billion acquisition of Gates Corporation
- Hilton Grand Vacations in connection with its acquisition of Diamond Resorts International for $1.4 billion
- DigitalBridge in connection with its acquisition of Boingo Wireless for over $850 million
- Hilton Worldwide Holdings in connection with its refinancing of $8.6 billion of their senior secured bank facilities
- Vodafone Group Plc in connection with the sale of its interest in Verizon Wireless for $130 billion
- The ADT Corporation in connection with its $15 billion sale to affiliates of Apollo Global Management
- Blackstone and Invitation Homes in connection with its $2.075 billion revolving credit facility
- Blackstone and Equity Office Properties in connection with a refinancing of CMBS and other debt with a $3.5 billion senior bank facility
- Blackstone and Corsair Capital in connection with their majority investment in First Eagle Investment Management and $1.5 billion senior bank facility
- DigitalBridge and Stonepeak in connection with the recapitalization of ExteNet Systems, Inc. for over $1 billion
- Centerbridge Partners, GenNx360, the Wychwood Trust and certain of their affiliates as sponsors in the global financial restructuring of the syncreon Group
- Technology Crossover Ventures in its acquisition of a controlling interest in Watermark Insights
- True Wind Capital in its investment in Transflo
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.