Brendan MacBride is a Partner at Centerview Partners, focusing on Debt Capital Advice within the Capital Advisory practice. With over fifteen years of buyside and sellside structuring experience, Mr. MacBride has advised a variety of Corporate and Private Equity clients in capital raising, acquisition finance, capital structure evolution, recapitalizations and capital solutions across the Consumer, Healthcare, Industrial and TMT industries. Mr. MacBride joined Centerview in 2024 to establish the Debt Advisory practice within the Capital Advisory Group focusing on providing capital solutions across the bank and syndicated capital markets and private credit markets to the Centerview clients.

Mr. MacBride’s selected experience include Verizon’s acquisition of Frontier, Roark’s purchase of Subway Restaurants, Cardinals purchase of GI Alliance, Nordstrom’s take private, Samsonite’s acquisition financing supporting its purchase of Tumi; Nordstrom, Gap and Samsonite’s critical COVID 2020 financings (Gap named IFR 2020 High Yield Deal of the Year); various financings for Post Holdings, Restaurant Brands, Prestige Brands, Alcoa, Valvoline & Vista Outdoor; Cotys RMT financing and purchase of P&G brand portfolio and subsequent refinancing; LBO financings for Apollo/Novolex, BDT/Whataburger, Goldman/Zaxbys, H&F/Grocery Outlet, One Rock/Triton Water, KKR/1-800 Contacts & The Bay Clubs and Capital Solutions transactions for Bumble Bee, Gopher Resources & CSM Foods.

Prior to joining Centerview, he was a Managing Director in the Leveraged Finance Group at Morgan Stanley.

Mr. MacBride is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and completed his undergraduate at TU Dublin. He lives in New Canaan, Connecticut, with his wife and three children.