Eric S. Wu has a capital markets background that allows him to serve his clients as a reliable resource and practical adviser.

Eric concentrates his practice in business transactions, finance and corporate counseling. He has a special focus on helping publicly-traded companies anticipate, navigate, and resolve the legal issues surrounding capital-raising securities transactions, mergers and acquisitions, SEC periodic reporting, executive compensation, proxy and shareholder matters and corporate governance practices.

Eric represents issuers in a wide variety of SEC-registered public offerings and private placements of debt and equity securities, including:

• Initial public offerings
• Follow-on and registered shelf offerings
• Rule 144A offerings of high-yield, convertible and investment grade debt securities to institutional investors
• Exchange offers

Eric regularly counsels numerous public companies on compliance with SEC periodic reporting and other disclosure obligations under the federal securities laws. He is well-versed on the corporate governance requirements and listing standards of various stock exchanges. Eric also renders practical advice on the legal issues regarding public company corporate governance, Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank Act compliance, anti-takeover strategies, compensation matters and fiduciary duties of company boards and committees.

As a result of his diverse client base, Eric advises numerous companies in complex corporate transactions, including proxy contests, consent solicitations, tender offers and going-private transactions.

Prior to joining Polsinelli, Eric practiced for five years in the Washington, D.C. office of a Wall Street law firm.