Eric Sibbitt
Eric Sibbitt serves as both Co-Chair of the Global Fintech & Payments and Vice Chair of the Securities & Capital Markets practice groups. As one of the most trusted legal advisors in the Fintech industry, Eric represents major trading platforms and other market intermediaries, leading innovators, and prominent investors in navigating the regulatory complexity presented by blockchain and new financial technologies and legacy regulation. Eric has broad experience advising issuers and underwriters on IPOs and other complex equity and debt capital-raising and liability management transactions, as well as M&A and other strategic transactions, and provides clients with boardroom counsel on SEC and corporate governance matters. · Paul Hastings LLP
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Eric Sibbitt serves as Co-Chair of the Global Fintech & Payments practice group and Vice Chair of the Securities & Capital Markets practice group at Paul Hastings LLP. He represents major trading platforms, market intermediaries, innovators, and investors in regulatory matters involving blockchain and new financial technologies. He has extensive experience advising on IPOs, equity and debt capital-raising, liability management, M&A, and corporate governance. He also advises on debt and equity offerings and REITs.
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Education
- Harvard University, J.D., 1997: cum laude; Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard International Law Journal
- Kyushu University, LL.M., International Economic and Business Law, 1998
- University of California at Berkeley, A.B., Economics and Asian Studies (East Asian Political Economy), 1993: High Honors, Phi Beta Kappa
- Osaka University, Economics Department, 1991-1992