Matt J. Gornick
Partner

Overview
Matt Gornick is a financial services attorney in Holland & Knight's Nashville office where he represents banks, specialty lenders and borrowers on complex commercial financing transactions covering a multitude of matters in the healthcare, financial services, private equity, manufacturing and retail industries, among others.
He has broad experience negotiating, structuring and documenting bilateral and syndicated commercial finance transactions, including matters involving senior and subordinated credit facilities, asset-based loans, cash-flow loans, acquisition financings, real estate finance, secured and unsecured lending, intercreditor agreements, bridge loans, and debtor-in-possession and exit facilities.
Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Mr. Gornick practiced in the New York office of an international law firm where he represented financial institutions and asset managers in connection with structured credit transactions.
While in law school, he served as the senior notes editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review and the executive problem editor on the Vanderbilt Moot Court Board.
Mr. Gornick is an avid supporter of early literacy programs in his community. He currently serves as a board member and officer of a Nashville nonprofit and provides pro bono services to a statewide public-private partnership whose missions are to promote access to books.
Representative Experience
Credentials
- Vanderbilt University Law School, J.D.
- New York University, B.A., Journalism, English, American Literature, cum laude
- New York
- Tennessee
- Rotary Club of Nashville
- Nashville Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- Young Leaders Council, 2022-2023
- Book 'em, Board Member, 2023-Present; Secretary, 2024-Present
- National Coalition of Homeless Veterans, Policy Director, 2011-2013
- The Best Lawyers in America guide, Ones to Watch, Banking and Finance Law, 2023-2025