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Eric
S.
Haueter
Partner
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ERIC S. HAUETER is a corporate partner in the San Francisco office. His principal areas of practice include corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions.
Mr. Haueter was recognized as a leading capital markets lawyer in the 2007, 2008 and 2009 editions of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business. He was also named as one of the leading lawyers by the Legal 500 for his work in capital markets. He was named a 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 Client Service All-Star by BTI Consulting Group based on a survey of corporate counsel from more than 250 Fortune 1000 companies, making him one of only two lawyers who have been named for four consecutive years.
Mr. Haueter has represented the underwriters and issuers in a broad range of public and private debt and equity financings, merger and acquisition transactions and other matters.
Representative transactions in which Mr. Haueter has participated include:
- IPOs for companies such as Arbor Realty, Carrols Restaurant Group, Dolby Laboratories, IPC—The Hospitalist Company, KKR Financial, Morton’s Restaurant Group, NUCRYST Pharmaceuticals and Zumiez;
- offerings of convertible debt and other equity-linked securities for issuers such as Edwards Lifesciences, Finisar, Placer Dome and Wells Fargo;
- PIPEs and registered directs for issuers such as Capstone Turbine, ISTA Pharmaceuticals and MannKind;
- add-on common stock offerings for issuers such as Actuant, Nektar Therapeutics, O’Charley’s, Performance Foods, SI International, Tuesday Morning and Weyerhaeuser;
- IPOs, common stock offerings and debt offerings for issuers affiliated with financial buyers, including Del Monte, Safeway and Southern Pacific Rail;
- investment grade and high-yield debt offerings for issuers such as Barrick Gold, Canadian Occidental Petroleum, Fidelity Investments, KB Home, Southern California Gas and SuperValu;
- debt, preferred stock and capital securities offerings for financial institutions such as BancWest Corporation and Downey Financial; and
- debt and equity offerings for REITs such as Equity Office Properties, Federal Realty, Health Care Property Investors, Kilroy Realty Corporation, Realty Income Corporation and United Dominion.
Mr. Haueter is admitted to practice in California and New York.
