Eric L. Schiele is a partner in Cravath’s Corporate Department. His practice primarily encompasses public and private securities offerings for investment banking firms and corporate clients, as well as mergers and acquisitions and general corporate advisory work.
Corporate clients that Mr. Schiele has represented include, among others, Time Warner, Time Inc., The Brink’s Company, Johnson & Johnson, Big Lots, The Washington Post and IBM. Mr. Schiele also regularly represents a number of financial institutions, including J.P. Morgan, Goldman, Sachs & Co., Credit Suisse and Bank of America. His representative transactions include representing Time Warner in its spin-off of Time Warner Cable, its spin-off of AOL and its split-off of the Atlanta Braves, as well as various debt capital markets transactions for aggregate proceeds of $8 billion; Kraft in its pending spin-off of its North American grocery business; Johnson & Johnson in its acquisition of Omrix; Zale Corporation in its PIPE financing with Golden Gate Capital; Jacobs Private Equity in its control-PIPE acquisition of XPO Logistics; and representing the underwriters in connection with offerings of debt and equity securities of various issuers, including, among others, Bumble Bee Foods, Harman International Industries, CoStar Group, Tyson Foods, Boise Inc., TRW Automotive and Air Canada. Mr. Schiele also represented Chevron Corporation in its contested acquisition of Unocal; the Board of Directors of MCI in connection with the contested acquisition of MCI by Verizon; and Sprint in its merger with Nextel.
Mr. Schiele has been recognized by The Legal 500 for his skill in the capital markets arena in 2011.
Mr. Schiele was born in Columbus, Ohio. He received a B.A. summa cum laude from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1996 and a J.D. with Highest Honors from the University of Texas School of Law in 2000, where he was a member of the Chancellors honor society and an Associate Editor of the Texas Law Review. He joined Cravath in 2000 and became a partner in 2008.
Mr. Schiele may be reached by phone at 212-474-1788 or by email at eschiele@cravath.com.