ERIC WOLF advises clients on executive compensation and employee benefit-related arrangements, including cash-based incentives, equity-based incentives, employment, severance, deferred compensation, and retirement arrangements, with a particular emphasis on issues arising in connection with mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, new and joint ventures, and other corporate transactions. Eric has extensive experience representing both private equity investors and management in their portfolio companies with structuring equity compensation and employment arrangements. Eric also advises public companies and their executives on employment, severance, and change-in-control arrangements and with respect to ongoing disclosure requirements for stock ownership.
Eric was recognized by Chambers USA 2024 as an “Up and Coming” lawyer for Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation in New York, where he was lauded for being “very thoughtful and practical, thinking through how to look at our business and goals.” His clients describe him as someone who has “great subject matter expertise, is very helpful and has good solutions to our structuring matters” and appreciate his “easygoing style while being very detail-oriented.”
Prior to joining Sidley, Eric was counsel at another global law firm in its Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits practice group.