Eric concentrates his practice in the areas of commercial lending, banking and public finance. He routinely represents domestic and foreign commercial banks and other financial institutions as direct lenders and as providers of credit enhancement and liquidity support for publicly traded debt securities. Eric has extensive experience representing purchasers in private placements of taxable and tax-exempt bonds (including bank qualified bonds and qualified tax credit bonds) issued for the benefit of states, cities and local governments, healthcare groups and higher education institutions located through the country. In addition, he serves as counsel to commercial banks and insurance companies as providers of structured investment products such as guaranteed investment contracts, repurchase agreements and forward delivery agreements.