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Eric Schwartzman

Eric Schwartzman

Partner
Baker & McKenzie LLP

Biography

Eric serves as Head of Private Equity in California and is a Partner in our Firm's North American Transactional Group and our Global Private Equity Practice Group. Based in our San Francisco office, he leverages decades of transactional experience and business judgment to help clients across industries buy, build, and sell companies. His practice spans a range of industries, including technology and its many subsectors, telecom, media and entertainment, financial services, healthcare, consumer, retail, energy, manufacturing, and industrials.

Practice Focus

Eric's practice focuses on guiding private equity sponsors, their portfolio companies, and public and private companies on mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, recapitalizations, take-privates, carve-outs, restructurings, and joint ventures.

Representative Legal Matters

Prior to joining the Firm, Eric advised on the following matters:

  • Silver Lake and its portfolio company Vacasa in the acquisition of TurnKey Vacation Rentals and Vacasa’s deSPAC business combination with TPG Pace Solutions

  • Ares in its acquisitions of Crescent Point Capital and interests in the Senior Secured Loan Fund and the Allied Capital Senior Debt Fund

  • Searchlight Capital in its control investment in Sightline Payments

  • Astra Capital in its acquisition of Searchlight Security

  • Invictus Growth Partners in its acquisition of Allbound

  • Sandton Capital and its portfolio company Aymium in Aymium’s strategic financing

  • Shift4 in its acquisition of The Giving Block

  • Vroom in its acquisition of CarStory

  • Cloudways in its sale to DigitalOcean

  • Great Place to Work in its sale to UKG

  • Hubbell in more than 25 acquisitions of small to medium-sized companies engaged in Hubbell’s electrical, industrial, and commercial markets

Admissions

  • California~United States (2012)
  • New York~United States (1996)
  • Connecticut~United States (1995)

Education

  • Syracuse University College of Law (J.D.) (1995)
  • Lafayette College (B.A.) (1992)

Languages

  • English
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