Eric M. Hellige

Partner Eric Hellige is a member of Pryor Cashman's Corporate and Banking + Finance Groups.

Widely recognized as one of the country’s top corporate attorneys, Eric brings more than three decades of experience advising on corporate transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and commercial and securities matters for clients around the world.

Eric represents public and private companies from the U.S. and abroad in startup, early-stage and other venture capital financings, crowdfunding, private placements and bridge financings, mergers and acquisitions, exchange offers, strategic alliances, and joint venture formations.

His clients include corporations with interests in China as well as China-based companies doing business in the U.S. Eric helps clients pursue business development strategies that drive market expansion of goods, services, and technologies.

Serving as corporate counsel, Eric offers practical business planning and counseling services that enhance his clients’ management of their day-to-day operations. He advises on technology licensing, executive compensation and employment contracts, confidentiality and non-competition agreements, transitional planning, corporate governance, shareholder and partnership arrangements, and banking and investor relations.

Companies from a variety of industries rely on Eric’s advice to guide them at every stage of their growth. He represents a diverse group of clients, from an edible chopsticks manufacturer to a biotechnology startup, to an internet television company offering programming targeted to the China market.