Eric Schwartzman is a partner in Weil’s Corporate Department focusing on private equity, mergers & acquisitions, corporate restructurings, joint ventures, and general securities and corporate matters. He is based in the firm’s Silicon Valley office. His clients include private equity sponsors and investment banks as well as publicly traded and privately held companies in a broad range of industries, including telecommunications, software & services, e-commerce, media & entertainment, infrastructure, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and energy.
A representative sample of Mr. Schwartzman’s M&A transactions over the last few years includes The Carlyle Group’s $2.6 billion acquisition of Syniverse Holdings, Inc.; Riverstone’s disposition, as the majority selling stockholder, of FDR Holdings Limited (Frontier Drilling) for $2.16 billion; Ares Capital Corporation’s acquisitions of interests in the Senior Secured Loan Fund LLC (formerly known as the Unitranche Fund) and, separately, of the Allied Capital Senior Debt Fund, L.P. from Allied Capital; Abu Dhabi National Energy Company’s acquisition of Northrock Resources; Spectrum Equity’s disposition of Canon Communications; and Hubbell Incorporated’s various and ongoing acquisitions of small to medium-sized companies participating in Hubbell’s electrical, industrial and commercial markets.
In addition to practicing law, Mr. Schwartzman worked for a time with Oscar Capital Management, where he and his team launched and managed an early stage venture capital fund. Mr. Schwartzman joined Oscar Capital after serving as director of strategic and business development for an Oscar Capital portfolio company.