Eric Hall

Practice Areas

Mergers & Acquisitions; Securities & Corporate Governance; Venture Capital & Private Equity; Joint Ventures & Partnerships; Corporate & Transactional

Career

Eric J. Hall is a Shareholder in the Corporate and Transactional Practice Group of Hill Ward Henderson. Mr. Hall has practiced with the firm for more than 16 years. His corporate practice is focused on mergers and acquisitions, but he also has experience with matters involving securities law, corporate governance, general corporate law and other business transactions.

Mr. Hall has represented both public and privately-held companies and owners in various types of merger and acquisition transactions, including forward and reverse mergers, stock/equity purchases and sales, and asset purchases and sales. He also has counseled public companies, private equity firms and their portfolio companies in matters related to the implementation of corporate acquisition, reorganization and divestiture strategies.

Mr. Hall is experienced with speaking about merger and acquisition and other business law topics at seminars and other events. He is a member of the Florida Bar Business Law Section and the Mergers & Acquisitions Committee of the American Bar Association Business Law Section. Mr. Hall is a member of the firm’s Management Committee.

Education

Work Highlights

• Represented public companies in implementing their national acquisition strategies.

• Represented founders in the sale of their companies to private equity funds and strategic competitors.

• Represented private equity funds in platform acquisitions and implementing add-on acquisition and exit strategies.

• Represented private equity sponsored companies in carveout sales of a business division.

• Represented venture capital investors in sales of companies in which they held an investment.

• Represented public companies in negotiated tender offer sales to acquirors (including a transaction awarded by the M&A Advisor as the Healthcare/Life Sciences Deal of the Year (under $250 million)).

Awards