Director & Founder
Coordinator, EMEA Region, Global Transactions, Global Labor & Employment
Erik founded Transatlantic Law International after more than 15 years of international legal and management experience including in European General Counsel positions for Fortune 50 companies.
Erik specializes in management of cross-border projects, international transactions, antitrust, global labor law and commercial agreements. In M&A he has completed or negotiated over 80 transactions with a deal value of more than $5 billion in every European country and in Asia since 1992, ranging from mid-cap single country acquisitions to billion-dollar cross border acquisitions and joint ventures.
Prior to moving to Europe in 1991, Erik worked as a corporate and litigation lawyer in leading U.S. law firms in Boston and New York.
He has lectured extensively before bar associations and corporate groups in the United States and in Europe on topics including European M&A, corporate governance, distribution and agency agreements, antitrust and compliance programs, key issues in global non-competition agreements and structuring international labor assignments, among other matters.
He is an honors graduate of Yale University and of the University of California, Hastings College of the Law and a member of the bars of New York and Massachusetts. He speaks French and German and resides in London.