Eric D. Greenberg

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About Eric D. Greenberg

C-suite executive, strategic advisor, and award-winning lawyer with a background across media, entertainment, and technology; complex M&A and innovative transactions; compliance, external affairs, and corporate governance. A relationship-focused and data-driven leader, noted by colleagues, clients, and counterparties as an innovative strategist, a creative consensus-builder, and a commercial problem-solver. Previously recognized for 15 consecutive years as a leading private-practice lawyer by Chambers USA in both its media-and-entertainment and communications categories; ranked by the Legal 500 in its 2021 Hall of Fame category for lawyers at the pinnacle of the profession, and a winner of the Financial Times 2016 Innovative Lawyers Award for market-leading work on novel spectrum-sharing agreements on behalf of three separate, leading media strategics, including Disney/ABC. Described by clients in Chambers and the Legal 500 as “creative,” “intuitive,” and “business minded,” as well as a “thought leader,""deal strategist," and an “extremely capable negotiator” who “structures positions that work for both parties” with a “unique ability to distill complex deal structures” and craft "solutions to real-world regulatory issues." GC experience includes managing and executing multi-billion dollar and mid-market M&A (including post-closing integration processes), complex commercial negotiations, and advising on governance and board matters as corporate secretary. Successes include innovative management of legal department and redesign of company-wide contract management process, effective litigation risk-management, and execution of broad governmental and external affairs initiatives. Noted for thought-leadership on inclusive language in the legal community, garnering short-listing by Chambers USA 2023 in its inaugural Diversity & Inclusion category for both law department and individual awards. Private practice experience focused on M&A, from multi-billion dollar deals to strategic roll-ups, and corporate governance, including a series of representations of independent directors. Noted for the design of complex and innovative JVs and commercial agreements, including in technology, media, life sciences and and renewable energy. Noted for ability to integrate regulatory and commercial considerations, including with respect to antitrust, the FCC, and CFIUS. A speaker, panelist, and writer on new developments in the legal profession and the converging media/tech ecosystem, including on the op-ed page of The Wall Street Journal.