Eric Stephenson is a Deputy Sheriff at Alamosa County Sheriff's Office. He possess expertise in contract negotiation, corporate law, due diligence, mergers and acquisitions, strategy and 19 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "Eric joined Baxa shortly after we completed a minority recap and sold 25% of the company to Goldman Sachs. Prior to this time we had not had an in-house counsel and a number of legal/risk management issues had turned up in due diligence. Eric is a person of integrity, grace and class. He put in place systems and programs that turned around any compliance issues, educating our employees, and getting our contracts organized and in most cases on-line. He brought in an outstanding para-legal and with her help, made terrific strides. Eric attended all Board meetings and senior management meetings. He was a trusted business partner, who took part in strategy and high level tactical business discussions. During this time, Baxa had tremendous growth, and the volume of contracts being signed through our sales team grew tremendously. Eric helped us develop our contracts department, and put in place tools and contract language rules that allowed us to keep up with demand. The same demand developed in our supply chain and in our business development. Baxa had potential for liability to develop due to patient injury or death while being treated with Baxa Products. While the patient outcome was not caused by the Baxa products, there is significant legal risk. Eric managed this risk very well, and during his tenure, we had only a couple of cases, which settled very favorably. Baxa went through a process with potential buyers in 2010, with significant work completed on a potential Sale Purchase Agreement. The counterparty was very adversarial in the contract negotiation and we ended up walking away from the deal. Eric was a critical advisor and learned very quickly in this process. Then 2011, we completed a deal to sell the company to Baxter. Eric proved a seasoned in-house counsel in this process, which was very successful. With the integration, we no longer have in-house counsel in Colorado, so Eric elected to leave the company. He would be an outstanding choice for companies looking to add to their in-house legal team, bring in a General Counsel or build a legal department from scratch. His knowledge of what outside private equity owners want from management is a big plus, as his broad experience at Vail Resorts and at Baxa. I would highly recommend considering Eric for your firm."