Eric S. Wolf

ERIC WOLF advises clients on executive compensation and employee benefit-related arrangements, including cash-based incentives, equity-based incentives, employment, severance, deferred compensation, and retirement arrangements, with a particular emphasis on issues arising in connection with mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, new and joint ventures, and other corporate transactions. Eric has extensive experience representing both private equity investors and management in their portfolio companies with structuring equity compensation and employment arrangements. Eric also advises public companies and their executives on employment, severance, and change-in-control arrangements and with respect to ongoing disclosure requirements for stock ownership.

Eric has been recognized as a leading lawyer by Chambers USA for New York Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (2024–2025), who cited clients that describe Eric as “very talented and knows the key issues at play” and appreciate how he is “very pragmatic and is a good negotiator,” is “an incredibly hardworking, responsive and commercial lawyer,” and has an “easygoing style while being very detail-oriented.”

Prior to joining Sidley, Eric was at another global law firm in its Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits practice group.

• Asurint, an industry-leading provider of background screening solutions, in its sale to A&M Capital Partners.
• Xignux in the US$5.28 billion sale of its stake in Prolec GE to GE Vernova.
• Garage Beer, the fastest growing, independent beer brand in the U.S., in its strategic growth investment from Durational Capital Management.
• Spire Inc. in its US$2.48 billion acquisition of the Piedmont Natural Gas’ local distribution company business in Tennessee (pending).
• Global Container International, a leading lessor of marine intermodal containers, in its acquisition by Triton International Limited, the world’s largest lessor of intermodal freight containers, for a total transaction value of over US$1 billion (including outstanding debt).
• American Industrial Partners in its US $700 million acquisition of the Grain & Protein division of AGCO Corporation (NYSE: AGCO).
• Houlihan Lokey, Inc. in its acquisition of Triago Management Development, a global advisory firm.
• Mastercard in its US$2.65 billion acquisition of global threat intelligence company Recorded Future (pending).
• Battea-Class Action Services in its US$670 million acquisition by SS&C Technologies.
• Alex Cooper and Matt Kaplan in the formation of Trending, a new Gen Z media venture that will develop scripted and unscripted content, including podcasts, digital media, touring events, and other projects.
• Warner Music Group (WMG) in the formation of a joint venture with Elliot Grainge’s groundbreaking label, 10K Projects, whereby 10K Projects became a standalone label within the WMG ecosystem, and 10K Project’s superstar roster of chart-topping artists (including Trippie Redd and Ice Spice) joined the WMG family (the latter in partnership with Capitol Records).
• Walgreens Boots Alliance in connection with its agreement to purchase a majority investment in CareCentrix, an industry leader in the post-acute and home care sector, providing care coordination and outsourced benefit management services.
• Icahn Enterprises and certain of its subsidiaries in its Section 363 purchase of certain of the assets of Auto Plus in Chapter 11.
• IEQ Capital in their acquisition of EPIQ Capital Group, an approximately US$5.3 billion multi-family office and investment firm.
• Dwayne Johnson, Dany Garcia, and various of their affiliates in the formation of a joint venture to launch PAPATUI, a men’s personal care brand initially available solely online and exclusively at more than 1,400 Target locations.
• Dwayne Johnson and Dany Garcia in connection with a significant minority investment by Molson Coors Beverage Company.
• SupplyHouse, a proprietary e-commerce platform serving professionals in the HVAC, plumbing, and electrical trades, in connection with a minority investment from KKR & Co., a global private equity firm.
• Apollo and its independently managed affiliate, Redding Ridge Asset Management (RRAM), in RRAM’s acquisition of Irradiant Partners.
• Funds managed by affiliates of Apollo in the acquisition of the Environmental Services business of GFL Environmental Inc.
• Exiger in its acquisition of logistics intelligence platform XSB, a data science company known for its artificial intelligence (AI)-based applications that transform data into actionable intelligence.
• 4x4 Capital in the sale of a portion of its interest in 1440 Foods Holdco to Bain Capital.
• BBQGuys, a leading e-commerce retailer of outdoor living products, in its acquisition of Mont Alpi, a premium manufacturer of modular outdoor kitchen islands and grills.
• Twin Star International, Inc., as the stalking horse bidder, in its purchase of substantially all the assets of Walker Edison Furniture Company, LLC in connection with Walker Edison’s Chapter 11 proceedings (pending).
• TowerBrook Capital Partners, L.P. in its strategic investment in Amylu Foods, a manufacturer of all-natural, value-added protein products.
• Arsenal Capital Partners (Arsenal), a private equity firm specializing in building industrial growth and healthcare companies, on the sale of its portfolio company, Applied Products, Inc. (APPLIED Adhesives), to Bertram Capital.
• J.S. Held LLC, a global consulting firm, in its acquisition of MorrisAnderson, a market-leading restructuring firm based in Chicago.
• Commercial builder Webcor in its acquisition of GCON, a full-service construction management firm serving the technology, healthcare, aviation, higher education, and public sectors (pending).
• MarcyPen Capital Partners (MarcyPen) as lead investor, together with Brand Velocity Group (BVG), in a growth investment in The GLD Shop (GLD), a globally recognized jewelry brand.
• Moving Mountains, an award-winning hospitality company specializing in the operation of luxury vacation rentals with personalized guest experiences, in its acquisition by StayTerra, a property management company and collection of premier vacation rental brands.
• Lineage, Inc. (NASDAQ: LINE), the world’s largest global temperature-controlled warehouse REIT, in the US$247.0 million acquisition of multiple, existing cold storage warehouses and related assets from Tyson Foods, Inc.
• Ancala in the formation of short line rail specialist Phoenix Rail and in the subsequent acquisition by Phoenix Rail of Lehigh Valley Rail Management.
• D2 Asset Management in its US$280 million minority investment in Unlock Technologies.
• Arsenal Capital Partners in its acquisition of Knowtion Health, a provider of revenue cycle insurance claim resolution services supported by AI-enabled technologies.
• Tencarva Machinery Company in its acquisition of Tri-State Coating & Machine, a provider of specialized thermal coating services and related parts to the industrial market.
• Vehicle Accessories, Inc., a portfolio company of Kinderhook Industries, in its acquisition of Maxton Group, a designer and producer of automotive products and accessories to automotive original equipment manufacturers.
• Buckthorn Partners in their US$210 million sale of Coretrax to energy services firm Expro.
• Several transactions for TowerBrook Capital Partners L.P., including its acquisition of CBTS from altafiber (formerly doing business as Cincinnati Bell), its majority equity investment in Demakes Enterprises, LLC and the take-private acquisition of ProSight, a U.S. domestic specialty insurance company for approximately US$586 million.
• SanReno Therapeutics, a clinical-stage company specializing in the discovery, development, and commercialization of innovative therapies for kidney diseases, in its acquisition by Novartis.
• Learn CW Investment Corporation, a publicly traded SPAC, in its business combination agreement to combine with Innventure LLC.
• Brand Velocity Group, in its investment in Jaya Apparel Group.
• Zinnia in its strategic acquisition of Policygenius, a digital insurance marketplace.
• Several transactions for Z Capital Management LLC and related entities, including the acquisition of ScooterBug Best Lockers, the acquisition of The Eppinger Group and the acquisition of Universal Marine Medical Supply International.
• Stone Point Capital LLC, in the sale of its majority interest in Kensington Vanguard National Land Services to Truist Insurance Holdings, Inc.
• Castle Creek Capital in its co-investment in FirstSun Capital Bancorp.
• Funds advised by Wafra Inc. in the pending acquisition of Aquila Air Capital from funds managed by Warburg Pincus LLC.
• RelaDyne LLC, a portfolio company of American Industrial Partners, in its acquisition of Sun Coast Resources, Inc.
• J.S. Held LLC in its acquisition of Luttrell Wegis LLP.
• VIO Med Spa in its majority investment from Freeman Spogli.
• Colliers (NASDAQ and TSX: CIGI) in its investment in Versus Capital, a U.S. alternative real asset management firm.
• Eurazeo in its acquisition of a majority stake in Cranial Technologies.
• Several transactions for Siris Capital Group, LLC and related entities, including their US$591 million sale of Fiery, LLC to Seiko Epson Corporation, the sale of its interest in Constant Contact to Clearlake Capital Group, its acquisition of BearCom, a North American solutions provider of wireless communications and security technologies and the sale of Stratus Technologies, Inc. to SMART Global Holdings, Inc.
• Numerous transactions for KKR, including its US$8.5 billion acquisition of BMC Software.
• Numerous transactions for Hellman & Friedman and related entities, including its investment in Genesys, acquisition of myON, and sales of Ellucian, Sedgwick Inc., and Sheridan Healthcare.
• Several transactions for EQT Partners and related entities, including acquisitions of Lumos Networks, Press Ganey Holdings, PRO Unlimited, and Workforce Logiq.
• Fifth Third in its US$4.7 billion acquisition of MB Financial.
• BorgWarner’s US$3.3 billion acquisition of Delphi Technologies.
• Blackstone in its recapitalization of SERVPRO and acquisition of Stearns Holdings, LLC.
• TRW in its approximately US$13.5 billion sale to ZF Friedrichshafen AG.National diversified financial services company in the sale of its brokerage and management portfolio accounts to another multinational financial services institution.

Some of the above matters were handled prior to joining Sidley.