Eric Newsom > Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP > San Francisco, United States > Lawyer Profile
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111
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Eric Newsom
Work Department
Corporate; Healthcare
Position
Eric A. Newsom is a partner in the Corporate Practice Group in Sheppard Mullin’s San Francisco office.
Eric’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital investment transactions, complex domestic and international joint ventures, and corporate governance and compliance matters. He has represented buyers, sellers, investors and intermediaries in scores of business combination, buyout and investment transactions, with particular emphasis on the technology and healthcare industries.
In his healthcare and health technology practice, Eric focuses on mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, joint ventures and private equity investment and disposition transactions involving health plans, multi-hospital systems, physician groups and ambulatory and other specialty service providers, as well as startup and growth-stage companies in the healthcare information technology sector.
A significant portion of Eric’s practice involves advising clients in connection with cross-border transactions, whether engaging foreign counsel to assist domestic clients in managing offshore assets, or representing foreign clients in sales to, or joint ventures with, U.S.-based businesses.
Memberships
Admitted to practice in the State of California
Member, San Francisco Bar Association
Education
J.D., University of San Francisco, 1996, Articles Editor, USF Law Review
B.A., University of California, Davis, 1993
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Healthcare > Health insurers
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP’s healthcare practice has seen continuous growth over the last decade, and the firm has a solid healthcare offering with a particular focus on insurance-related transactional and regulatory issues. The team has an especially strong West Coast presence, with much of the team based in California. In Century City, Eric Klein leads the team, with a particular focus on healthcare insurance-related M&A and market consolidation, while Lynsey Mitchel’s practice concentrates on HMO regulatory matters. Eric Newsom represents buyers, sellers, and investors in private equity and venture capital investment transactions from his base in San Francisco, and Los Angeles-based Moe Keshavarzi is a trial and appellate lawyer with a focus on healthcare entities and insurers in civil disputes and regulatory enforcement actions. Washington DC’s Christine Clements rounds out the team, focusing on state and federal managed healthcare government contract programs.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Government > Government contracts
- Healthcare > Health insurers
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Tax > Not-for-profit (nonprofit and tax exempt organizations)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Tax > International tax
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)