Brandon Bryer

BRANDON BRYER focuses his practice on commercial real estate matters including acquisition, disposition, financing and leasing transactions. He routinely advises both purchasers and sellers on a broad range of real estate matters in connection with corporate mergers and acquisitions. Brandon also represents commercial banks as loan sellers in commercial mortgage-backed securitizations and lenders in single-family rental (SFR) securitizations.

Brandon received his J.D., summa cum laude and Order of the Coif, from the University of Cincinnati College of Law. While attending Cincinnati, Brandon served as the editor-in-chief of the Cincinnati Law Review, leading the publication in its 90th volume. He also taught as a teaching assistant in property and tort law, clerked at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, and externed for The Honorable Matthew W. McFarland of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.

Brandon received his B.A., summa cum laude, in political science from Morehead State University, where he was elected Student Body President and served on the university’s governing Board of Regents. While at MSU, Brandon was also a five-time all-conference student athlete on the NCAA rifle team, where he competed individually at the U.S. Junior Olympics and the 2019 NCAA Division I National Championship.

For his volunteer and philanthropic work across eastern Kentucky, Brandon was named a Kentucky Colonel—the highest civilian honor granted by the Governor of Kentucky.

Brandon’s representative matters include:

• Ares Management Corporation in its US$1.1 billion acquisition of Meade Pipeline Co LLC.
• Newfold Digital, a leading web commerce company backed by Clearlake Capital Group, LP and Siris Capital Group, LLC, in the carveout sale of Markmonitor to Com Laude, the London-headquartered supplier of corporate domain services backed by PX3 Partners.
• Herc Rentals in its sale of Cinelease to Zello.
• Thompson Street Capital Partners in its acquisition of Bubbakoo’s Burritos.
• HARMAN International, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., on its US$350 million carve-out acquisition of Masimo Corporation’s Sound United consumer audio business. The acquisition will expand HARMAN’s audio offering, especially across core segments such as home audio, headphones, hi-fi components, and car audio. The acquisition is expected to close by the end of 2025.
• The special committee of the board of directors of Nordstrom, Inc. (NYSE: JWN) in its US$6.25 billion acquisition by certain members of the Nordstrom family and El Puerto de Liverpool, S.A.B. de C.V. (pending).
• Arthur J. Gallagher in its US$13.45 billion acquisition of AssuredPartners from GTCR (pending).
• Angel City Football Club (ACFC) in its relocation to a state-of-the-art performance center on the campus of California Lutheran University.
• Thompson Street Capital Partners in its growth investment in ATIS, a provider of elevator and escalator safety inspections, consulting, and managed services across the U.S. and Canada.
• Mastercard in its US$2.65 billion acquisition of global threat intelligence company Recorded Future (pending).
• Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. (NYSE: TDS) in the US$4.4 billion sale of United States Cellular Corporation’s (NYSE: USM) wireless operations and select spectrum assets to T-Mobile US, Inc. (NASDAQ: TMUS), including a combination of cash and up to approximately US$2 billion of assumed debt.

The summer prior to joining Sidley, Brandon was a PILI Fellow with the Greater Chicago Legal Clinic, where he assisted dozens of Chicago residents in expunging and/or sealing their criminal records.