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Eric Feldman is a partner in the firm’s Wilmington office. He practices in the areas of alternative entities and general business, focusing primarily on issues relating to the utilization of Delaware alternative entities, such as limited liability companies, general and limited partnerships, statutory trusts and special purpose corporations, in all types of domestic and cross-border business and commercial transactions. These include mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, securitizations, structured finance, venture capital, private equity, and hedge funds, master limited partnerships, special purpose/bankruptcy remote entity structures, public and private offerings, limited liability company and trust preferred securities transactions, and Tier 1 capital transactions. Eric also has extensive experience advising clients on issues relating to the organization, operation, management, governance, dissolution, and winding-up of alternative entities, the duties, fiduciary and otherwise, of general partners, managers, directors, special committees and trustees of such entities, and the structuring and restructuring, including through mergers, conversions, transfers and domestications, of such entities. In addition, Eric regularly represents financial institutions in a variety of roles in which they serve in financing and secured transactions, including as trustee, indenture trustee, collateral agent, escrow agent, paying agent, and independent manager/director. Eric’s practice often involves authoring opinion letters relating to Delaware entities, as well as rendering advice and legal opinions relating to the creation and perfection of security interests under Delaware law, including the Delaware Uniform Commercial Code. Additionally, Eric is experienced in providing support to litigators with respect to litigation and arbitration matters, both in the Delaware Court of Chancery and in other domestic and international courts, involving Delaware alternative entities, including serving as an expert witness in such matters.