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Eric Schwartzman

Eric Schwartzman

Partner
Baker & McKenzie LLP

Biography

Eric Schwartzman serves as head of the Private Equity Group 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

  • Ares in its acquisitions of GCP International (with respect to Japan, Brazil and Vietnam), Crescent Point Capital and interests in the Senior Secured Loan Fund and the Allied Capital Senior Debt Fund
  • Astra Capital in its acquisition of Searchlight Security, and Logix Fiber Networks, an Astra portfolio company, in the recapitalization of Logix
  • 65 Equity Partners in its significant minority investment in Kendra Scott
  • Calera Capital in its acquisition of Thayer Power & Communication Line Construction Company
  • Silver Lake and its portfolio company Vacasa in the acquisition of TurnKey Vacation Rentals and Vacasa’s deSPAC business combination with TPG Pace Solutions
  • Carlyle in its acquisitions of HireVue, Syniverse Technologies, Hawaiian Telcom, and Dex Media; in its sale of CPU Technologies; and in its public-to-public merger of Dex Media and R.H. Donnelley
  • Warburg Pincus and its portfolio company Evidon in the sale of Evidon to CrownPeak, a K1 Investment Management portfolio company
  • Invictus Growth Partners in its acquisition of Allbound
  • Agiloft in its sale to KKR
  • ServiceNow in its acquisition of Raytion 

*Includes matters before joining Baker McKenzie

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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