Eric M Krautheimer

Practice Areas

M&A

Career

Eric Krautheimer is a partner in S&C’s Los Angeles office and is a member of the Firm’s General Practice Group. Highly regarded as one of the elite M&A lawyers on the West Coast, he has been twice named The American Lawyer’s “Dealmaker of the Year” for advising AT&T in its spin-off of WarnerMedia followed by the merger of Discovery and WarnerMedia (the largest media and entertainment deal of 2021) and its acquisition of Time Warner and “Dealmaker of the Week” for advising AT&T in its proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom AG. For 30 years, Mr. Krautheimer has successfully represented many of the largest and most prominent corporations on a wide range of domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, including negotiated and hostile acquisitions of public companies, negotiated sales of private companies, subsidiaries and divisions, private equity transactions, leveraged buy-outs, formation of joint ventures and asset sales. He has extensive experience representing buyers, sellers and financial advisers across a wide range of industries, including consumer and retail, energy, financial services, healthcare and life sciences, sports and entertainment, technology and telecommunications. Mr. Krautheimer has advised global leaders such as Amazon.com, AT&T, Barclays, Bayer, BP, Merck KGaA, Microsoft and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, among others.

Mr. Krautheimer received his BA from SUNY Binghamton, JD from Western New England College School of Law and LLM from NYU School of Law.

Professional Memberships

Board Member, Fulfillment Fund