Bryan Bylica leads the firm’s investment funds practice and counsels private equity funds, private credit funds, SBIC funds, RBIC funds, venture capital funds, hedge funds, and other similar investment vehicles in all stages of their life cycle. He is one of only a handful of lawyers nationwide that represents SBIC and RBIC funds throughout the licensing process and in post-licensing regulatory and compliance matters. He regularly works with new and emerging managers to establish their fund, regulatory, and compliance infrastructure.
As part of his investment funds practice, Bryan represents fund sponsors in single- and multi-asset GP-led secondary transactions and continuation funds, working with them from inception through consummation to negotiate terms with one or more lead investors, design a tax-efficient transaction structure, and manage all aspects of the transaction from the perspective of both the existing fund and the continuation fund.
Bryan also works with family offices, insurance companies, pension funds, endowments, banks, and other institutional investors that serve as anchor or significant investors in blind pool funds, lead investors in GP-led secondary transactions and continuation funds, provide capital to support independent sponsors or make co-investments along financial sponsors.
Bryan also represents these funds in their portfolio investments (including platform and follow-on investments, portfolio company corporate matters, and divestitures). These investments include mergers and acquisitions, growth equity and equity co-investments, private credit, and venture capital.
He has significant mergers and acquisitions experience in the lower middle-market representing buyers and sellers across all sectors in transactions with enterprise values ranging from $10M – $250M, with demonstrated knowledge in working with independent sponsors in all aspects of their portfolio company acquisition, including the platform acquisition, structuring and raising the equity and debt capital in support of the acquisition, follow-on acquisitions, and related governance matters.
Prior to joining Bass, Berry & Sims, Bryan was a partner at McGuireWoods LLP.
