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Eric Zilber is an associate in the Corporate Department and a member of the Sports Law Group. He advises sports leagues, teams and investors on a variety of transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, media rights agreements, sponsorship agreements, stadium/arena developments, league expansions, financings, ownership transfers and corporate governance matters.

Eric graduated from Harvard Law School, where he spent over two years as an extern and paralegal at BSE Global (parent company of the Brooklyn Nets, Barclays Center and New York Liberty). During this time, he assisted with the 2020 NBA and WNBA Bubbles, reopening Barclays Center for the 2020-2021 season and various sponsorship and basketball operations matters. Through his work with the NBA Bubble, Eric published an article titled “Establishment of the NBA ‘Bubble’ Guidelines for the Resumption of the 2019-20 Season” in the Harvard Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law.

At Harvard, Eric received the Paul C. Weiler Scholar Award for excellence in sports law. He also moderated fireside chats with The Fat Jewish, Mark Cuban, Rich Paul, Mark Tatum and Coach Steve Kerr.

Eric is a registered certified public accountant (CPA) in New York and worked for several years at PwC and Lourie & Cutler prior to becoming a lawyer.