Biography
Eric Wissman is an associate in Weil's Capital Markets practice and is based in New York. Eric participates in advising issuers, underwriters and private equity sponsors in connection with public and private offerings of securities and other capital markets transactions. He has been involved in investment grade and high-yield debt offerings as well as primary and secondary equity offerings.
Eric has been part of the teams advising:
- Allego N.V. in an exchange offer and consent solicitation including the exchange of 13,029,838 of the Company’s warrants for 2,996,918 ordinary shares
- Blue Bird Corporation and an affiliate of American Securities, LLC, as selling stockholder, in a $52.5 million secondary offering of 2,500,000 shares of common stock and, in a $63 million secondary offering of 2,500,000 shares of common stock, and in a $133 million secondary offering of 4,042,650 shares of common stock
- Citi, Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan, as joint book-running managers, in the $400 million and $800 million senior unsecured notes offerings by Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. for working capital, capital expenditures and investments.
- Core Scientific in its issuance of $260 million in secured convertible notes, $150 million in senior secured notes, two tranches of warrants, a security representing entitlements to contingent payment obligations, a $55 million equity rights offering and relisting on Nasdaq Global Select Market, all in connection with its emergence from Chapter 11.
- Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and Citi, as a dealer managers, in the $4.6 billion senior notes exchange offer and consent solicitation by S&P Global Inc. in connection with S&P Global's acquisition of IHS Markit Ltd.
- Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Mizuho Securities and the other initial purchasers, in a $5.5 billion issuance of senior unsecured 144A / Reg S notes by S&P Global Inc. to refinance existing indebtedness.
- JP Morgan, as lead placement agent, in its $300 million offering of 9.25% convertible senior payment-in-kind notes due 2028 of Oatly Group AB
- OUTFRONT Media, Inc., representing the initial purchasers, in a $450 million senior secured 144A/Reg S senior secured notes offering
- Willis North America Inc. (a subsidiary of Willis Towers Watson PLC) in connection with multiple notes offerings totaling over $2 billion in aggregate
Eric joined Weil as a summer associate in 2020.
Eric received his J.D. from Harvard Law School and his B.S. from Northeastern University.