Eric Wechselblatt

Eric Wechselblatt is a partner in Holland & Knight's Tysons office and serves as the deputy section leader of the firm's Business Section.

Mr. Wechselblatt represents clients in a variety of corporate and transactional matters, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, equity financing transactions and general corporate counseling.

In addition, Mr. Wechselblatt has extensive experience leading teams in complex merger and acquisition transactions, including stock deals, mergers, asset deals, leveraged buy-outs, spin-offs, joint ventures and similar transactions. In these M&A transactions, he has represented private equity funds, as well as public and private companies (as buyers and sellers) in a variety of industries, such as government contracting, software, education technology, other technologies, medical supplies, manufacturing, distribution, publishing, spirit brands and others.

Mr. Wechselblatt has negotiated more than 300 equity financing transactions, ranging from angel and seed financings to expansion and mezzanine round financings. Mr. Wechselblatt has represented the issuers in about half of these transactions and the investors in the other half. Accordingly, he understands the key drivers and issues that both parties face in these transactions.