Eric Orsic is the co-head of the Firm’s Capital Markets and Public Companies Practice Group. Eric advises clients in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, and securities transactions and compliance. He works with publicly and privately held companies to structure and negotiate business acquisitions/dispositions. His public company transactional experience includes public equity and debt offerings, tender offers and going-private transactions.

Eric also serves as outside securities counsel to several public companies and advises on Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) compliance matters, including periodic reporting requirements and disclosure issues. In addition, he works with public and private companies in the design and structuring of executive compensation programs such as stock and stock-based compensation plans.

Leads the defense of M&A and joint ventures before the DOJ, FTC, and international competition authorities

Counsels customers, suppliers, and competitors adversely affected by proposed transactions

Advises on antitrust litigation, including Sherman Act and Clayton Act Section 7 matters

Counsels clients on distribution issues, contracting arrangements, and other competition-related matters

Advises clients on telehealth, remote patient monitoring, AI-enabled tools, consumer wellness and other virtual care or digital health companies on product development, compliance, commercialization, and reimbursement strategies

Guides clients on structuring compliant care delivery models, navigating multi-state licensure, and advising on fraud and abuse, data privacy, cybersecurity, and other key areas

Advises mail order, retail and other types of pharmacies, suppliers and manufacturers on partnerships with healthcare companies and related compliance considerations

Develops compliance frameworks for consumer wellness programs and mobile health solutions

Leads retailers, tech companies and other non-healthcare companies through their development and launch of healthcare products or offerings

Structures provider networks and strategic collaborations among hospitals, health centers, and physicians

Counsels investors on healthcare trends, reimbursement opportunities and changes in laws to assist with designing their investment strategies

Advises clients on telehealth, remote patient monitoring, AI-enabled tools, consumer wellness and other virtual care or digital health companies on product development, compliance, commercialization, and reimbursement strategies

Guides clients on structuring compliant care delivery models, navigating multi-state licensure, and advising on fraud and abuse, data privacy, cybersecurity, and other key areas

Advises mail order, retail and other types of pharmacies, suppliers and manufacturers on partnerships with healthcare companies and related compliance considerations

Develops compliance frameworks for consumer wellness programs and mobile health solutions

Leads retailers, tech companies and other non-healthcare companies through their development and launch of healthcare products or offerings

Structures provider networks and strategic collaborations among hospitals, health centers, and physicians

Counsels investors on healthcare trends, reimbursement opportunities and changes in laws to assist with designing their investment strategies

Lisa M. Richman focuses her practice on international dispute resolution matters, with a particular emphasis on international commercial arbitration and public international law.

She has experience representing clients in a broad range of matters, including in the areas of international commercial and investment arbitrations, securities enforcement, securities litigation, general commercial litigation disputes and insurance coverage.

Lisa’s clients have included investors, governments, corporations, corporate officers and directors, and individuals in disputes seated in common law and civil law jurisdictions worldwide. Her work has included disputes conducted under ICC, ICSID, ICSID AF, AAA/ICDR, SIAC, HKIAC, JAMS, DIS, LCIA, CPR, Swiss Rules and UNCITRAL Rules as well as pure ad-hoc arbitrations. She has handled disputes in a wide variety of industries with a particular focus on disputes relating to energy, oil and gas, intellectual property, pharmaceutical, infrastructure, licensing, securities, telecommunications, joint ventures and construction.

Lisa also has represented corporations, corporate officers and directors, and individuals in international and domestic arbitrations and litigations in the US and around the world. Complementing her dispute resolution expertise, Lisa has managed internal investigations worldwide and has helped a variety of companies to resolve government investigations, including World Bank Sanctions proceedings. Lisa is listed on the arbitrator list of the Vienna International Arbitral Centre (VIAC), in the LCIA’s database of neutrals and is a member of the SIAC Users Counsel, the ITA Americas Committee and the DIS Rules Revision Committee. She is a native German speaker, and also speaks Spanish and French.

She has received recognition for her expertise as a dispute resolution specialist by, among others, Global Arbitration Review, Who’s Who Legal, Benchmark Litigation, the Commercial Arbitration Expert Guide, the National Law Journal, the American Lawyer, Juve, Super Lawyers and Law360.

While in law school, Lisa was a notes and comments editor for The Tax Lawyer. Following law school, Lisa was a law clerk for the Honorable A. Franklin Burgess, Jr. of the District of Columbia Superior Court.

Toni Ann Kruse has a broad-based estate and wealth transfer planning practice in New York. She advises ultra-high net worth individuals and families on estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax issues, trust and estate administration, state fiduciary income tax planning, and charitable gifting, as well as contested trust and estate matters. She has significant experience working with multinational clients on structuring efficient ways to benefit US persons as well as inbound and outbound planning opportunities. Toni Ann regularly works with family companies, advising on governance and succession issues between generations; drafts and administers complex estate plans; implements leveraged lifetime wealth transfer techniques; and counsels fiduciaries in complex trust and estate administration matters, often involving various asset classes across several jurisdictions.

Toni Ann has published articles in publications such as Trusts & Estates Magazine, Bloomberg Tax, Law360, and the New York Law Journal. She regularly speaks at estate planning conferences on various topics and has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Reuters as an industry expert.