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Committed to increasingly challenging goals and willing to invest the time and energy necessary to achieve them, Eric Fogel has spent more than two decades building a thriving corporate practice—one of the largest and most impressive in metropolitan Chicago. Visionary and focused, say colleagues, he demonstrates considerable expertise in international corporate finance, venture capital, securities law, capital formation, markets, proxy fights, tender offers, and mergers and acquisitions. He regularly counsels senior management and boards of directors on corporate governance issues and on strategies to achieve complex business and legal goals. Eric has served as outside general counsel to several companies, advising on corporate, litigation, tax, ERISA and real estate matters. He also has represented numerous insurance companies regarding institutional private placements of debt and equity securities—transactions that have involved hundreds of millions of dollars.
A reputation for overcoming nearly any obstacle to complete a deal, often against unpredictable or prejudicial odds, preceded Eric to Schuyler Roche. Attracting him to our firm, he says, was the high quality of our work and our flexible, responsive environment.
Eric’s dedication to law—its logic and precision—evolved from a lifelong interest in philosophy, the subject of his postgraduate studies. Indeed, a conversation with a peer or client will quickly reveal Eric’s most noteworthy qualities: his logical mind yet intuitive nature. “Humble, kind, creative and optimistic,” a business acquaintance has said, “are all modifiers one can use in the same breath to describe Eric.” His drive to innovate is another trait admirers cite to explain his success. Clients appreciate his efficiency and efforts to eliminate nonessential steps. Like many of Schuyler Roche’s most successful practitioners, Eric continues to improve his skills and is unafraid to consult with peers when exploring possibilities on a client’s behalf.
After earning his master’s degree at the University of Michigan, Eric became a stockbroker for Paine Webber, where his interest in capital markets grew. A few years later when he returned to his alma mater to attend law school, he pursued a J.D. and M.B.A. concurrently, confident each discipline would inform the other.
In 1995, with his law career well established, Eric became an adjunct professor for the McGeorge School of Law, for which, through a collaborative program, he currently teaches a course on international business transactions at the University of Salzburg in Austria.
Representing a wide variety of individuals and corporations, from Fortune 500 companies to entrepreneurs, Eric has conducted countless financial and securities transactions both domestically and abroad. He offers clients an increasing array of expertise in international corporate finance, overseas business transactions, venture capital, securities, mergers, acquisitions, lending, general corporate representation and many types of business combinations and restructurings. In addition, his specialties include:
- overseeing friendly and hostile tender offer transactions
- waging proxy fights for public and private companies
- structuring and negotiating large mergers and acquisitions
- counseling insurance companies in connection with institutional private placements of debt and equity securities
- advising entrepreneurial venture-capital-backed companies
- representing venture capital clients across various industries, including environmental services, manufacturing, financial services, computer technology and healthcare
- regularly advising corporate clients on Section 16 trading issues, Rule 144 resale issues, proxy statement disclosures and executive compensation disclosures.
It takes both courage and confidence to orchestrate the complex deals by which Eric has made his reputation. He has helped steer clients, both here and abroad, through more than 100 venture-capital-backed transactions in a vast range of industries. In addition, he has participated in numerous securities transactions of varying complexity. He also has managed teams of attorneys, accountants and investment bankers, helping each successfully navigate through complex transactions and litigation.
Transactions representative of Eric’s work include his having served as:
- a lead lawyer for Allstate Insurance Company on its initial public offering, at the time one of the largest initial public equity offers in U.S. history
- counsel to the underwriters of Harley Davidson, Inc., in that company’s initial public offering
- lead counsel in the hostile tender offer for the Allied Insurance Companies
- lead counsel in a hostile tender offer for Meridian Insurance Company, a NASDAQ company
- counsel for the sale of Northwestern Steel & Wire
- lead counsel for numerous venture-capital-backed deals across multiple industries involving hundreds of millions of dollars
- outside general counsel for a NASDAQ technology-based medical products company.
The intellectual prowess and legal expertise distinguishing Eric Fogel make him a formidable member of our firm. If you believe his experience is commensurate with your company’s needs, we encourage you to contact him.
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