Eric M. Swedenburg

Practice Areas

Head of Simpson Thacher’s Mergers and Acquisitions Practice and a member of the Executive Committee, Eric Swedenburg represents companies in a wide range of mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, spin-offs, joint ventures and other significant corporate transactions. He also regularly counsels clients on shareholder activism, corporate governance and general corporate and securities law matters. In addition to his significant amount of work with public companies, Eric has extensive experience in advising special committees of boards of directors, private equity firms and financial advisors in both U.S. domestic and cross-border M&A transactions across a number of industry verticals.

Some of his transactions have included representing AGCO, Change Healthcare, Dover, Genesee & Wyoming, Ingersoll Rand, K2M, Karuna Therapeutics, La Quinta, Mars, McKesson, SiriusXM, The Mosaic Company, Vodafone Group, Wendy’s and Wyeth.

Eric has published various articles on M&A subjects and frequently speaks on M&A, shareholder activism and corporate matters, including as a regular panel participant in the annual Tulane Corporate Law Institute, which is recognized as one of the premier M&A, corporate and securities law conferences in the country.

Personal

Cornell Law School (J.D., 1999; Order of the Coif; Cornell Law Review, Managing Editor, 1999–2000), University of Virginia (B.S., 1993)