Proskauer; BI
- Justin Breen, an attorney at the law firm Proskauer, is a go-to private-credit lawyer.
- First focusing on banks, now asset managers, his career has traced the market's growth.
- He now advises large private-credit firms, including Ares Capital and Bain Capital.
Justin Breen's legal career has traced the arc of the rapidly expanding private-credit market. When he started out some 20 years ago, he worked primarily with banks that were underwriting company loans. Now, he focuses almost exclusively on private credit.