Eric Sibbitt, Partner at Paul Hastings

Today, my guest is Eric Sibbitt, a Partner at Paul Hastings who 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 expertise 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. Eric holds a JD from Harvard Law School and a BA from UC Berkeley. In addition, Eric has spent considerable time both working and studying in Japan where he earned an LLM from Kyushu University.