Practice Expertise

  • Capital Markets and Securities
  • Corporate Governance and Board Advisory
  • Energy
  • Corporate

Areas of Practice

  • Capital Markets and Securities
  • Corporate
  • Corporate Governance and Board Advisory
  • Energy
  • Anti-Money Laundering
  • Anti-Money Laundering and Economic Sanctions
  • Committee on Foreign Investment in the ...
  • Corporate Transparency Act
  • Energy M&A
  • Energy M&A
  • Europe
  • Financial Services
  • International and Cross-Border Transactions
  • Latin America
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • National Security
  • North America
  • Private Equity
  • Private Investment Funds
  • Renewable Energy and Clean Power
  • View More

Profile

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

    Areas of Practice

    • Capital Markets and Securities
    • Corporate
    • Corporate Governance and Board Advisory
    • Energy
    • Anti-Money Laundering
    • Anti-Money Laundering and Economic Sanctions
    • Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)
    • Corporate Transparency Act
    • Energy M&A
    • Energy M&A
    • Europe
    • Financial Services
    • International and Cross-Border Transactions
    • Latin America
    • Mergers and Acquisitions
    • National Security
    • North America
    • Private Equity
    • Private Investment Funds
    • Renewable Energy and Clean Power

    Professional Career



    Articles

    Additional Articles
    • 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

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