Eric M. Feinstein

Education
- Yale University, B.A. 2007, magna cum laude, with honors
- The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, M.B.A. 2014, with honors
- University of Pennsylvania Law School, J.D. 2014, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif
Eric M. Feinstein
Eric M. Feinstein is a Partner in the Corporate Department of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. Eric’s practice focuses on domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions and dispositions, spin-offs, securities law matters, hostile takeover defense, shareholder activism and general corporate governance matters. He has advised a broad range of public and private clients across multiple industries, including banking, financial services, technology, media, pharmaceuticals, consumer products, industrials, energy, real estate and sports.
Eric received a B.A. magna cum laude from Yale University in 2007, where he graduated with honors and received the John Addison Porter Prize in American History.
In 2014, he completed a J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif. He also received an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he majored in Finance and was a Palmer Scholar.
Eric has been named to the Lawdragon 500 X – the Next Generation list as one of the next generation of legal leaders in America.
Selected technology, media, pharmaceuticals, consumer products, industrials, energy, real estate and sports representations include:
- FIS in its pending $18.5 billion sale of a majority interest in its Worldpay merchant solutions business
- Amgen in its $4 billion acquisition of ChemoCentryx
- Perrigo Company plc in multiple transactions, including its:
- Divestiture of its scar-treatment business
- $2.1 billion acquisition of HRA Pharma from Astorg and Goldman Sachs Asset Management
- $1.6 billion divestiture of its generic Rx pharmaceutical business
- $2.8 billion sale of its rights in the royalty stream of Tysabri®
- Successful defense against a $26 billion hostile takeover offer by Mylan N.V.
- Governance agreement with Starboard
- Adobe in its $1.3 billion acquisition of frame.io
- Broadcom in multiple transactions, including its:
- $130 billion proposal to acquire Qualcomm
- $18.9 billion all-cash acquisition of CA Technologies
- $950 million sale of Veracode to Thoma Bravo
- United Technologies in its separation into three independent public companies and the spin-offs of Otis Worldwide Corp. and Carrier Global Corporation
- AECOM in multiple transactions, including its:
- $2.4 billion carve-out sale of its Management Services business to American Securities and Lindsay Goldberg
- Carve-out sale of its oil & gas maintenance business to Graham Construction
- Governance agreement with Starboard
- Alex Rodriguez and Marc Lore in their acquisition of an ownership interest in the Minnesota Timberwolves
- Quality Care Properties in its $3.9 billion acquisition by Welltower, including its related agreement with ProMedica Health System to acquire HCR ManorCare through a bankruptcy reorganization
- Derek Jeter and an investor group led by him in the acquisition of the Miami Marlins
- CIT Group in its $10 billion sale of its aircraft leasing business to Avolon Holdings Limited and sale of its aircraft leasing joint ventures to Tokyo Century
- TEGNA in multiple transactions, including its:
- Spin-off of Cars.com
- Sale of CareerBuilder to Apollo Global Management and the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board
- Periphas Capital in its convertible preferred equity investment in KAR Auction Services
- Motorola Solutions in multiple transactions, including its strategic partnership with Silver Lake and related securities transactions
- CNX Resources in the spin-off of its coal business
- Annaly Capital Management in its $1.5 billion acquisition of Hatteras Financial
- Ventas in its spin-off of its skilled nursing REIT, Care Capital Properties
- Gannett in its governance agreement with Carl Icahn and the spin-off of its publishing business
Selected bank and financial services representations include:
- Royal Bank of Canada in its $CAD 13.5 billion acquisition of HSBC Bank Canada
- SoFi Technologies in multiple transactions, including its:
- $1.1 billion acquisition of Technisys S.A.
- $8.6 billion merger with Social Capital Hedosophia V
- Acquisition of Wyndham Capital Mortgage
- $1.2 billion convertible senior notes issuance and other securities transactions
- Umpqua Holdings in its $8.2 billion all-stock combination with Columbia Banking System
- Valley National Bancorp in its $1.2 billion acquisition of Bank Leumi USA
- Boston Private Financial Holdings in its $900 million acquisition by SVB Financial and successful defense against a proxy contest by activist investor HoldCo Asset Management
- BB&T Corporation in its $66 billion merger of equals with SunTrust
- Ford Financial Fund and its portfolio company Mechanics Bank in multiple transactions, including the following acquisitions and related rights offerings:
- $2.1 billion carve-out acquisition of Rabobank
- Acquisition of Learner Financial Corporation and Scott Valley Bank
- Acquisition of California Republic Bancorp
- Banner Corporation in its acquisition of Skagit Bancorp
- Hampton Roads Bankshares in its acquisition of Xenith Bankshares