Assistant General Counsel, SunCom Wireless

• Represented numerous family-held businesses in connection with sale of business to an acquirer.
• Represented numerous buyers and sellers of middle market businesses in various industries, including recurring revenue industries such as physical security, life safety, personal emergency response systems, software, IP security and telecommunications.
• Represented numerous borrowers in cash-flow lending transactions.
• Represented turn-around acquirer of a significant portfolio of electronic security accounts in connection with the secured creditor’s private Article Nine auction; representation ranged from pre-auction business formation to acquisition and continuing through to exit through asset sale, and included ongoing advice on day-to-day legal and business matters.
• Represented multiple leading national and super-regional roll-up acquirers in the ongoing acquisition of electronic security companies and their customer account portfolios nationwide.
• Represented numerous sellers on exit from electronic security businesses, including transactions in which he obtained significant sales multiples for seller clients.
• Represented personal emergency response providers in debt and equity transactions.
• Served as in-house counsel to a regional wireless telecommunications provider.
• Acted as legal counsel to the dissolution committee of a long-established, leading Philadelphia-based law firm, providing day-to-day advice and guidance on issues including dissolution; compensation of current and former partners; negotiation of significant partnership recourse obligations; and collection of outstanding firm receivables.
• Retained as an expert witness in defense of a legal malpractice claim arising from the stock purchase of an electronic security provider.
• Negotiated and drafted web-based video storage service agreements with leading international electronic security and data storage providers.
• Advised several leading national cable TV providers in connection with their entry into the commercial and residential electronic security market.
• Represented governmental agency in acquisition of cutting-edge NexGen 911 services.

A nationally recognized speaker on legal issues in the electronic security, life safety and personal emergency response industries, Eric is regularly invited to address industry groups, trade associations, and companies around the country.