Eric R. Markus is a partner in the firm’s Corporate/Securities practice. Eric has a broad practice that encompasses complex corporate transactions, mergers and acquisitions, securities law compliance and Exon-Florio and foreign asset control sanction matters.

The matters on which he has counseled clients include:

• Private and public M&A transactions, including domestic and international targets
• Complex securities regulatory matters, including Sections 13 and 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
• Negotiation and documentation of joint ventures
• US regulation of in-bound investment (Exon-Florio) and out-bound investment (OFAC sanctions)
• Debt financing transactions

Bar Admissions

Education
JD, Yale Law School, 1986

MPA, Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, 1986

BA, Yale University, magna cum laude, 1982

• A NEW YEAR’S TALE OF CAUTION – OFAC Settlement Highlights Risks for Those Dealing in Digital Currencies

  By Eric Markus |January 2021

• SEC Exempts “Dribble Out” Programs and Certain Secondary Sales from Large Trader Reporting Rule
• AK Migration: SEC Proposes New Whistleblower Rules Under the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010
• With Form PF Compliance Dates Quickly Approaching, Advisers Managing $150 Million or More of Private Fund Assets Should Begin to Prepare
• DC Circuit Finds Buyers in Transactions Under Exon-Florio Review Are Entitled to Due Process Protections
• Second Circuit Holds that Two Series of Common Stock Are Not Matchable Under the Short-Swing Profit Rule
• SEC Throws a Change-up in Conflict Minerals Rule Compliance
• PCAOB Adopts New Auditing Standard Regarding Related Party Transactions and Amends Other Auditing Standards
• AK Migration: SEC Proposes Rules for Compensation Committees and Compensation Advisers
• AK Migration: Securities and Exchange Commission Adopts Final Whistleblower Rules under the Dodd-Frank Act; Internal Reporting Encouraged but Not Required
• U.S. Implements Limited Sanctions Relief with Respect to Iran; Obligation to Report Iran-Related Transactions under U.S. Securities Laws Remains
• Federal Court Affirms Broad, Largely Unreviewable Presidential Powers to Force Divestment of Foreign Investments in U.S. Businesses
• SEC Provides Limited Business Broker Registration Relief for Private Company M&A Transactions
• SEC Charges Public Companies and Insiders with Violating Stock Ownership Reporting Requirements
• The Conflict Minerals Rule: Important Recent Developments
• D.C. District Court Upholds Dodd-Frank Conflict Minerals Rule
• AK Migration: Recent Ruling Allows a Shareholder Lawsuit to Proceed After a Negative Say-on-Pay Vote: Quirk or Harbinger?
• AK Migration: Securities and Exchange Commission Adopts Large Trader Reporting Rule
• SEC Adopts Dodd-Frank Conflict Minerals Rule
• United States Adds to Economic Sanctions against Russia Relating to the Conflict in Ukraine
• Delaware Chancery Court Finds Reverse Triangular Merger Under Delaware Law Does Not Effect an Assignment of Rights of the Surviving Corporation, Pratt's Journal of Bankruptcy Law
• SEC Issues Partial Stay of Conflict Minerals Rule
• Conflict Minerals Rule Update: Court Denies Request for Stay
• SEC Charges Investors Participating in Going Private Transactions with Violating Beneficial Ownership Reporting Requirements
• SEC Provides Guidance on Dodd-Frank Conflict Minerals Rule
• Venezuela: What New US Sanctions Mean, Latinvex
• Expert Analysis: Another Rollback In US-Cuba Financial Relations, Law360
• Treasury Department Issues Final Rule on Beneficial Ownership Reporting Requirements Under the Corporate Transparency Act, The Journal of Federal Agency Action, Volume 1, No. 2