Brett Pearlman is counsel in the firm’s finance group, where he focuses on the credit opportunities practice. Brett is also a member of Ropes & Gray’s liability management cross-practice group. Brett focuses his practice on special situations direct lending, workouts, restructurings, and liability management transactions. He has extensive experience in various financing transactions, including asset-backed, unitranche, second lien, PIK-holdco, mezzanine, debtor-in-possession, and rescue financing. Brett works with sponsored and non-sponsored companies, leveraging his extensive network of sponsor, bank, direct lending, hedge fund, advisory, and intermediary relationships.
Prior to joining Ropes & Gray, Brett was a principal at an independent investment firm focused on providing financing solutions to middle-market companies. Before that, he served as a senior vice president at a global private equity firm, overseeing its private debt portfolio of over 150 companies and serving as a director on several portfolio company boards across various asset classes. Brett began his legal career as an associate in the banking and finance practice group of an international law firm headquartered in New York City.