Managing Partner, Asia | Singapore • Tokyo
epiesner@mofo.com | 65 69222020 • 81 (33214) 6510 epiesner@mofo.comEric is a highly accomplished practitioner with more than 25 years of experience in guiding clients through all stages of the real estate investment cycle, including fund formation and restructuring, real estate financing, strategic M&A, private equity and multi-investor club deals, development, dispositions, and exits.
He has represented companies in all major real estate asset classes – particularly hotel/resort and industrial properties – worldwide, including the United States, Japan, China, India, Australia, Singapore, Thailand, Brazil, and Hong Kong.
Eric serves as a firm-wide Managing Partner, Asia Managing Partner, and heads MoFo’s market-leading Asia Real Estate practice.
He spent 10 years in Morrison & Foerster’s Tokyo office where he was consistently recognized as one of the leading U.S. real estate attorneys in Japan by Chambers Asia Pacific and an elite “Leading Lawyer” by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific. Eric was also recognized in the 2018 edition of Chambers Global for his work in Singapore and Japan for Investment Funds. He has also been recognized for Real Estate law in Singapore by Best Lawyers since 2009.
Eric inspires confidence and loyalty in his clients who describe him as “a top-level lawyer” who is “very strong,” “intelligent and able to absorb a great deal of information quickly.” “He’s a great resource – I can call him at any time and he’s got all the knowledge.”
Eric lived in Japan for 15 years and is proficient in spoken and written Japanese.
06 Mar 2019 - 07 Mar 2019
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