Erik Lazar
Director and Founder, Transatlantic Law International
Erik D. Lazar, is Director and Founder of Transatlantic Law International in London, United Kingdom, an innovative global legal firm which provides a broad range of business law solutions to multinational and growing companies in more than 90 countries worldwide.
A U.S. lawyer by training with over 25 years of experience in international business law, Erik founded the group in 2001 after more than 15 years of international legal and management experience including in European General Counsel positions for Fortune 50 companies. Erik specializes in global M&A, where he has negotiated or completed more 80 deals worldwide with more than $5 billion in deal value, restructuring, management of cross-border projects and transactions, international transactions, antitrust, and commercial agreements. He regularly counsels leading companies on M&A strategies, as well as structuring cross-border transactions and post-merger restructuring.
In the power and energy field, Erik had managed greenfield and acquisition projects in the solar, hydro and wind farm sectors in countries including the UK, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Mexico, Ecuador and Brazil
Erik also counsels leading companies regularly on global, regional and local labor issues worldwide focusing particularly on global executive and management contracts and cross-border employment and expansion, as area covered worldwide by Transatlantic Law’s global labor and employment law service, Labor Law Plus®.
Prior to moving to Europe in 1991, Erik worked as a corporate and litigation lawyer in major U.S. law firms in Boston and New York. He has lectured extensively before bar associations and corporate groups in the United States and in Europe on topics including global M&A, corporate governance, expanding businesses internationally, improving the general counsel function from an outside and inside perspective, distribution and agency agreements, and key issues in cross border movement of executives as well as global non-competition, among other matters.
Erik is an honors graduate of Yale University and of the University of California, Hastings College of the Law and a member of the bars of New York and Massachusetts. He speaks French and German and resides in London.