Eric W. Hilfers is a partner and head of the Executive Compensation and Benefits Group of the Tax Department. Eric’s practice focuses on executive compensation and employee benefit matters, principally in connection with mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings and other business transactions. Eric also advises clients on the structuring of compensation programs, the negotiation of executive employment agreements and the tax, ERISA and securities law treatment of employee compensation. Eric is a frequent speaker and author on the executive compensation disclosure rules and is a contributor to the U.S. developments column of the Capital Markets Law Journal, a publication of the Oxford University Press.

Eric was born in Olivia, Minnesota. He joined Cravath in 1998 and became a partner in 2006.