Eric S. Williams
Partner
Areas of Focus
- Private Equity Transactions
- Capital Markets
- Corporate & Finance
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Investment Management
- Family Office & Private Wealth
- Health Care & Life Sciences
- Private Client & Family Office Services
- Cloud Computing & Data Storage
- Private Equity
- Private Capital
- Represents clients in mergers and acquisitions and other complex business transactions.
- Advises public and private companies, private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies.
- Deep experience representing distressed asset acquirers in distressed and other special situations transactions.
Eric represents public and private companies, private equity buyers and portfolio companies in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and other complex business transactions. He also advises on securities matters. Eric regularly counsels private equity and other investment vehicles on distressed and other special situations investments, both in and outside of formal bankruptcy proceedings.
Eric has structured complex deals in the health care, infrastructure, technology, media and telecommunications (TMT), energy and retail sectors. He also has extensive experience with industrial and manufacturing companies and business services companies.
Eric is a member of the State Bar of Texas and the Dallas Bar Association.
Private Equity M&A
- Represented a private equity firm in its majority investment in a dark fiber and conduit infrastructure company.
- Represented a private equity firm in its strategic investment in a leading provider of practitioner-assisted stretch therapy services.
- Represented a private equity firm in its acquisition of multiple home services businesses.
- Represented a private equity firm in its majority investment in an operator and franchisor of oil change and automotive maintenance service centers.
- Represented a private equity firm in its strategic investment in a leading operator and franchisor of outpatient mental health clinics.
EducationJ.D., Southern Methodist University School of Law, 2001
J.D., Southern Methodist University School of Law, 2001
Bar AdmissionsTexas
Texas
- D Magazine, Best Lawyers in Dallas, Corporate Law: Merger & Acquisitions, 2022.
- Super Lawyers, Texas, Rising Star, 2008-2015.
- D CEO Magazine, D Magazine Partners, DFW’s Top M&A Dealmakers, 2014.