Eric Friedman Email & Phone Number

From 2009 to 2024, I was Chair and Executive Partner at Skadden. During my tenure, our firm was named the most innovative law firm in three Financial Times “Innovative Lawyers” reports. Additionally, Skadden became the first law firm to handle more than $1 trillion in global announced M&A deals in a single year, in 2015. I was chosen by The National Law Journal as one of its three most influential law firm leaders.I am an active member of the boards of the Mount Sinai Health System, University of Pennsylvania Law School and Leadership Council on Legal Diversity, where I will serve as chair beginning in 2025. I served as a board member of the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business for 15 years. I am also a trustee of the Skadden Fellowship Foundation, which has awarded more than 950 public interest fellowships to recent law graduates.Prior to becoming executive partner, I handled M&A and other corporate transactions for clients such as Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, Nasdaq and Mars. I have been recognized as a leading M&A attorney by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business and The Best Lawyers in America. In certain jurisdictions, this may be considered attorney advertising.