Mr Eric Hochstadt > Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Offices
767 5TH AVENUE
NEW YORK, NY 10153
NEW YORK
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Mr Eric Hochstadt
Position
Partner
Career
Eric Hochstadt is a partner in Weil’s Litigation Department. His practice focuses on civil antitrust, class action and other complex litigation, as well as civil merger and non-merger conduct investigations, criminal cartel investigations and antitrust counseling. He represents clients in a broad range of industries, including broadcasting, life sciences, e-commerce, electronics, financial services, pharmaceuticals, private equity, publishing, retail, and transportation. Eric has extensive experience defending consumer and antitrust class action litigation, as well as antitrust lawsuits and commercial disputes between rivals or suppliers and distributors. He has litigated in state and federal courts around the country and has antitrust class action jury trial and complex commercial arbitration experience.
Memberships
Lecturer, Columbia Law School. Executive Committee Appointed Member and Antitrust Trial Training Academy Faculty (New York State Bar Association, Section of Antitrust). Expert Witness Committee (ABA, Section of Litigation). Co-Chair, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Alumni Mentor Program. University of Michigan (BA, 2000); Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (JD, 2003, magna cum laude); Law Clerk for Hon. Loretta A. Preska (SDNY 2006-07).
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
Counting leading global tech giants, publishers, and pharma corporations among its impressive roster of clients, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP excels across all stages of litigation, with a strong track record of securing pre-trial victories as well as defeating class certifications. Former FTC litigation director Steven Newborn, merger review and clearance expert Brianne Kucerik, former FTC assistant director Jeffrey Perry, and Michael Moiseyev, who focuses on cross-border mandates, jointly oversee the ‘excellent’ practice; all four are based in Washington DC. New York’s Eric Hochstadt focuses on class actions and a broad range of other civil antitrust litigation, with a notable emphasis on sports-related cases. The ‘deeply experienced’ Adam Hemlock , also in New York, takes point on cartel matters, amnesty proceedings, and consumer class actions in the electronics and pharma industries.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Tax > Financial products
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Industry focus > Sport
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense