Justin Breen > Proskauer Rose LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
Proskauer Rose LLP Offices
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10036-8299
NEW YORK
United States
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Justin Breen
Work Department
Corporate
Position
Justin Breen is head of Proskauer’s Global Finance practice. His principal focus is the representation of leading private credit providers in complex corporate finance transactions, including leveraged sponsor buyouts, acquisition financings and recapitalization transactions. Justin’s clients include leading institutional investors, direct lenders, private debt funds, investment banks and business development companies, and he advises these clients on a broad range of financing transactions, including syndicated and non-syndicated senior and senior “stretch” loans, unitranche facilities, second lien financings, mezzanine financings, high yield bonds and structured preferred equity.
Justin has also advised clients in connection with various debt and equity investments involving sports teams and leagues, including investments in U.S. soccer teams, multiple European soccer teams, Formula 1 teams and Rugby leagues.
Justin has closed finance transactions with an aggregate value well in excess of $100 billion. His clients include market-leading investors, including Ares Capital, Antares Capital, Bain Capital, Churchill Asset Management, Golub Capital, Jefferies Finance, Thoma Bravo Credit and Varagon Capital.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Finance > Commercial lending
With a firm foothold in the private credit sector, Proskauer Rose LLP boasts an impressive roster of lender clients, including The Carlyle Group, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. The team fields expertise in a range of credit financings, including senior-stretch, unitranche, second-lien and secured mezzanine loans. Justin Breen is a prominent figure in the private credit lending space and leads the firm’s global finance group. Gary Creem heads the firm’s private credit practice from Boston, alongside Michael Mezzacappa, who plays a lead role in financing and credit arrangement deals. Stephen Boyko focuses his practice on finance transactions, including leveraged buyouts and acquisition financings. Marc Freiss advises a diverse list of hedge funds, private equity funds, commercial finance companies and investment banks. In Los Angeles, Sandra Lee Montgomery represents first- and second-lien senior lenders, mezzanine investors and equity sponsors in financing and restructuring transactions. Former firm chair Steven Ellis is an experienced figure, based between New York and Boston. All attorneys mentioned are based in New York, unless stated otherwise.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Industry focus > Sport
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Tax > International tax
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending