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 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
- Represented a bank as an agent and lender in a $250 million senior secured credit facility to a prominent venture capital-backed healthcare insurance company with operations across the U.S.
- Represented the lead arranger in $200 million of senior secured credit facilities, including a real estate term loan and asset-based lending (ABL) revolving credit facility, to the sponsor-backed owners and operators of 29 post-acute care facilities
- Represented a specialty lender in a $162.5 million senior secured ABL revolving credit facility extended to a sponsor-backed owner and operator of 22 acute care hospitals and several regional healthcare systems
- Represented a bank as an agent and lender in a $115 million senior secured term loan facility to the sponsor-backed owners and operators of a portfolio of senior housing communities across four U.S. states
- Represented a bank as an agent and lender in a $70 million senior secured term loan facility to the sponsor-backed owners and operators of a portfolio of senior housing communities across four U.S. states
- Represented a bank as an agent and lender in a $70 million senior secured credit facility to a leading eye care provider offering ophthalmology, optometry, retail and franchise services nationwide
- Represented a convenience store operator and fuel distributor in its $620 million syndicated senior secured credit facility, including a real estate term loan and cash-flow revolving loan
- Represented a private equity sponsor as borrower in a $40 million senior secured asset-based lending (ABL) and delayed draw term loan facility to support its existing portfolio companies and ongoing acquisitions in the manufacturing industry
- Represented a sponsor-backed endodontic service organization in its syndicated senior secured credit facility, which started at $25 million and has grown through various acquisitions and incremental increases to more than $540 million
- Represented a sponsor-backed home-based healthcare provider in obtaining a $6 million senior secured ABL revolving credit facility from a specialty lender
- Represented a publicly traded real estate investment trust (REIT) in its merger with a publicly traded REIT, including its $1.1 billion senior note exchange offer
Credentials
- Vanderbilt University Law School, J.D.
- New York University, B.A., Journalism, English, American Literature, cum laude
- New York
- Tennessee
- 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