Brian L. Holman

Brian Holman is a partner in Musick Peeler's Los Angeles office. He advises and represents educational institutions and other parties in facility acquisition and development financing, working capital financing transactions, and on general corporate and operations matters. Mr. Holman has advised and represented educational institutions in matters involving a total of over $2.4 billion in financing, including New Markets Tax Credit financings, taxable and tax-exempt bond financings, and working capital financing transactions. He has advised charter school clients in corporate restructurings including the national expansion of a charter school operator, the merger of affiliated charter school operators, acquisitions of charter school operators and charter school facility owners, and spin-offs of charter school operations from nonprofit organizations.

Mr. Holman also represents financial institutions, landlords, creditors, and other parties in bankruptcy proceedings, out-of-court workouts, and lending transactions.

Representative Matters

New Markets Tax Credit Financing

• $24,255,000 financing of the development of school facilities leased to The Golden Charter Academy for its use in operation of a public charter school (February 2025).
• $7,200,000 working capital loan to The SEED School of Los Angeles County (April 2025).
• Unwinding of $15,690,000 New Markets Tax Credit financing of the acquisition and development of school facilities leased to Ednovate, Inc. for use in the operation of Ednovate - USC East College Prep (October 2025).

Taxable and Tax-Exempt Bond Financing (Charter Schools)

• Issuance of $75,595,000 in California School Finance Authority Charter School Revenue Bonds (Fortune School of Education Obligated Group) Series 2024A and Series 2024B (Taxable) and $9,400,000 in California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank Charter School Revenue Bonds (Fortune School of Education Obligated Group) Series 2024C, the proceeds of which Bonds were used to finance and/or refinance the acquisition, construction, expansion, remodeling, renovation, improvement, furnishing and/or equipping of certain charter school facilities leased to Rex and Margaret Fortune School of Education for use in the operation of Fortune School (November 2024).
• Issuance of $27,960,000 in California School Finance Authority Charter School Revenue Refunding Bonds (Magnolia Public Schools – Obligated Group), Series 2025A and Series 2025B (Taxable), the proceeds of which Bonds were used to refinance the acquisition, construction, expansion, remodeling, renovation, improvement, furnishing and/or equipping of certain public charter school facilities owned by or leased to Magnolia Educational & Research Foundation for use in the operation of Magnolia Science Academy 1,  Magnolia Science Academy Santa Ana, and Magnolia Science Academy San Diego (April 2025).
• Issuance of $29,500,000 in California School Finance Authority Charter School Grant Anticipation Notes (Magnolia Public Schools ), Series 2025, the proceeds of which Notes were used to finance the construction, expansion, remodeling, renovation, improvement, equipping and furnishing of a public charter school educational facility owned by Magnolia Educational & Research Foundation for use in the operation of Magnolia Science Academy 5 (April 2025).

Taxable and Tax-Exempt Bond Financing (Other Educational Institutions)

• $43,500,000 loan by the California Enterprise Development Authority to Sierra Canyon High School Foundation, the proceeds of which loan were used to finance and refinance the construction of educational facilities (December 2021).
• Issuance of $14,320,000 in California Municipal Finance Authority Revenue Refunding Bonds (Southwestern Law School), the proceeds of which Bonds were used to refinance the design, development, construction and/or equipping of a student housing facility (December 2021).
• $23,000,000 loan by the California Enterprise Development Authority to Woodbury University, the proceeds of which loan were used to refinance the construction of educational facilities (December 2021).

Other Financing Transactions

• $15,000,000 financing and refinancing of the acquisition and development of charter school facilities by affiliates of Alliance College-Ready Public Schools, and the leasing of the facilities to Alliance College-Ready Public Schools for use in the operation of Ouchi-O’Donovan 6-12 Complex and Alliance College-Ready Middle Academy 4 (April 2025).
• $10,810,000 refinancing of the acquisition and development of charter school facilities by an affiliate of Ednovate, Inc., and the leasing of the facilities to Ednovate, Inc., for use in the operation of Ednovate – East College  Prep (October 2025).

Community

Synergy Academies, former Chair of the Board.

City of Pasadena Utility Advisory Commission, former Member.

Synergy Education Foundation, Chair of the Board and President

Admissions & Associations

State Bar of California

United States District Court for the Central, Eastern, Northern and Southern Districts of California

United States Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit

Supreme Court of the United States

American Bar Association, Member

American Bankruptcy Institute, Member

Los Angeles County Bar Association, Member, former Chair of Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Section

Financial Lawyers Conference, former Director

Los Angeles County Bar Foundation, former Director

Los Angeles Bankruptcy Forum, former Director