Mr Eric A Newsom

Practice Details

• Languages
  Fluent In French
  Conversant In Italian
  French
• Firm Information
  Position

  Partner; Co-Chair, Private Equity and Venture Capital; Mergers & Acquisitions; Vineyard, Wine & Beverage; Industry Team

  Firm Name

  Sheppard Mullin
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Experience: Aetna, Inc., as transactional
  regulatory counsel in its proposed divestiture to Molina Healthcare Inc. of approximately 290,000 Medicaid Advantage members in over twenty states in connection with Aetna's proposed merger with Humana, Inc.
  Blue Shield of California, in its acquisition of Care1st Health Plan, a full-service health insurance plan serving over 500,000 members in California, Arizona
  Texas (price not disclosed).
  Shamrock Capital Advisors, LLC, as a principal investor in the Series D
  E private equity financings of FanDuel, Inc., a Scottish corporation
  a leading daily fantasy sports league,
  in FanDuel's proposed merger with DraftKings.
  The Regents of the University of California, in the acquisition by UCSF Medical Center of Children's Hospital & Research Center of Oakl
  , a complex public- private affiliation creating a leading clinical care
  academic program with the most comprehensive pediatric service suite in Northern California.
  Blue Shield of California, in its innovative California Health Information Exchange joint venture with Anthem, Inc., in which Blue Shield
  Anthem teamed up to establish
  fund California Integrated Data Exchange, California's first privately funded, statewide HIE.
  The Regents of the University of California, in the proposed acquisition by UC Davis Medical Center of a leading regional Northern California hospital system.
  INgrooves, Inc., a leading provider of digital distribution, marketing
  technology services to the global music
  entertainment community, in its private equity financings, its acquisition of Fontana Distribution from Universal Music Group,
  other strategic acquisitions.
  Founders of Intellectual Ventures, the world's leading intellectual property development
  investment fund, in the restructuring of their ownership interests in the complex IV family of funds.