Clifford Chance
Eric Schaffer is an associate in Clifford Chance's corporate/M&A group in New York, where he focuses on private equity transactions. He represents domestic and international financial investors and their portfolio companies and strategics on a wide range of matters including cross-border and domestic mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, co-investments, minority and growth capital investments, corporate reorganizations and secondary transactions.
Eric’s practice spans across many sectors, including sports, media and entertainment, tech, financial and business services, consumer retail and healthcare.
- KKR in its strategic partnership with Carlyle to acquire an approximately US$10.1 billion portfolio of prime student loans from Discover Financial Services
- Martello Re, backed by MassMutual, Barings Centerbridge and Brown Brothers Harriman in its US$1.3 billion capital raise
- A consortium of Japanese companies, Marubeni and Mizuho Leasing, in their acquisition of the shares of Aircastle not already owned by Marubeni
- alterDomus in its acquisition of Cortland Capital Markets Services
- alterDomus in its acquisition of Investors Economic Assurance
- alterDomus in its acquisition of Solvas from Deloitte
- alterDomus in its acquisition of Strata Fund Solutions
- alterDomus in its acquisition of IPS Fund Services
- Apollo S3 in its series of acquisitions of limited partner interests by its credit secondaries platform
- Ardian in the acquisition by its portfolio company, the Dedalus Group, of the healthcare software solutions business of DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC)
- Atlantia in its acquisition of Yunex Traffic from Siemens
- BlackRock Long Term Private Capital and Javier Ferrán in their sale of Creed, a luxury fragrance brand, to global luxury group Kering
- Capital Square Partners in the acquisition by its portfolio company, Movate, of TSD Global, a multi-national technology and business services company
- CVC Capital Partners in its sale of AOC, a leading global producer of specialty resins, to Lone Star Funds
- DigitalBridge (f/k/a Colony Capital) (NYSE: DBRG) in its sale of a substantial portion of its Other Equity and Debt portfolio of real estate assets and associated general partner interests and management rights to Fortress Investment Group
- DWF Group (LSE: DWF) in its acquisition of Mindcrest
- JS Global in its spin-off and NYSE listing of SharkNinja (NYSE: SN)
- Kartesia in the acquisition by its portfolio company, Sales Performance International, of The Richardson Company from ClearLight Partners
- Mercury Capital Advisors in its sale to a subsidiary of Investcorp
- Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) in its global spin-off and merger of its off-patent branded and generic established medicines business, Viatris (f/k/a Upjohn) (NASDAQ: VTRS), with Mylan (NASDAQ: MYL)
- Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) on worldwide restructuring in connection with its joint venture with GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) to create a global consumer healthcare company
- Ready Capital (NYSE: RC) in its merger with Owens Realty Mortgage
- Sixth Street in its acquisition of 25% of Futbol Club Barcelona's LaLiga TV rights
- Telefonica (NYSE: TEF) in its merger of its UK subsidiary, O2, with Virgin Media, a subsidiary of Liberty Global (NASDAQ: LBTYA)
- TRU Simulation + Training, a subsidiary of Textron (NYSE: TXT), in its joint venture with FlightSafety International, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway
- TotalCX on its sale to CallRevu, a portfolio company of Serent Capital
News and client work
Contact details
- Clifford Chance, New York
- +12128788088
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- Practice area M&A corporate
- Sector Private equity, Entertainment & Sports
Career and qualifications
- University at Buffalo (BS, Business Administration, Finance, magna cum laude) 2014
- Brooklyn Law School (JD, magna cum laude) 2017
- Admitted as an Attorney-at-law New York 2017
- Joined Clifford Chance in 2017
Professional bodies
- Member of the New York City Bar Association