Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

Corporate; Healthcare

Eric A. Newsom is a partner in the Corporate Practice Group in Sheppard Mullin's San Francisco office.

Eric’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital investment transactions, complex domestic and international joint ventures, and corporate governance and compliance matters. He has represented buyers, sellers, investors and intermediaries in scores of business combination, buyout and investment transactions, with particular emphasis on the technology and healthcare industries.

In his healthcare and health technology practice, Eric focuses on mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, joint ventures and private equity investment and disposition transactions involving health plans, multi-hospital systems, physician groups and ambulatory and other specialty service providers, as well as startup and growth-stage companies in the healthcare information technology sector.

A significant portion of Eric’s practice involves advising clients in connection with cross-border transactions, whether engaging foreign counsel to assist domestic clients in managing offshore assets, or representing foreign clients in sales to, or joint ventures with, U.S.-based businesses.

Admitted to practice in the State of California

Member, San Francisco Bar Association

J.D., University of San Francisco, 1996, Articles Editor, USF Law Review

B.A., University of California, Davis, 1993