Eric is Co-Managing Partner of CLMGK, and heads the Firm’s Litigation Department. Over almost 40 years, Eric has developed a diversified commercial and corporate practice representing domestic and international public and privately-owned companies, entrepreneurs, family businesses and individuals over a range of practice areas including litigation, dispute resolution, business transactions, and corporate matters.
Eric is an experienced litigator in all types of commercial and business issues and an accomplished trial attorney regularly practicing in state and federal courts, as well as in alternative dispute proceedings. Keenly aware of the stresses that litigation can cause a client, Eric works with his clients to craft legal strategies for a broad range of civil cases and arbitrations and achieves results that others may have considered unachievable.
Eric has represented plaintiffs and defendants in various matters across a spectrum of substantive areas, including commercial and contract disputes, business torts, corporate and partnership disputes, real estate, construction, creditors’ rights including bankruptcy, and general business law in the federal and state trial and appellate courts and before various arbitration and mediation panels and bodies.
On the transactional side, Eric has experience in asset-based lending and other areas of commercial finance, including bankruptcy matters, workouts, and turn-around situations. He has actively represented clients in the documentation of commercial finance and equipment leasing transactions and negotiated and papered restructurings on behalf of and with lenders and servicers.
Eric often serves as outside general counsel to his clients. In that capacity Eric’s clients regularly seek his guidance and counsel on mergers, acquisitions, sales, board advisory and corporate governance issues, risk management, business succession planning, joint ventures, executive compensation, strategic relationships, licensing, business restructuring and recovery, and almost every aspect of the client’s business.
Eric has guest lectured on litigation practice at Touro Law School and has lectured for various professional groups and organizations including the Nassau Academy of Law on points of legal procedure and litigation including provisional remedies, discovery, trial practice, business divorces, dissolutions of businesses, disputes between shareholders, and real estate issues.
Eric is admitted in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the United States District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and in all New York State Courts.
Eric is an Executive Committee Member of the prestigious Theodore Roosevelt American Inn of Court, a Past President of B’nai B’rith’s Banking and Finance Unit, and a member of the New York State and Nassau County Bar Associations.
- Syracuse University College of Law,
J.D., 1986
Honors
Syracuse Law Review Editor;
Exceptional Editor’s Award - State University of New York at Albany,
B.A. 1983