White & Case LLP - Lawyers

Practice Experience

Eric Marcks advises clients on a wide range of corporate and commercial matters, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Marcks joined the Firm's Tokyo office in November 2007. Before joining White & Case, Mr. Marcks practiced corporate law for seven years at a leading international law firm in San Francisco, where he represented international companies in various types of corporate and commercial transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, creditors' rights workouts, and licensing, distribution, OEM, and other types of commercial agreements. Mr. Marcks also worked extensively with emerging technology companies in Silicon Valley and the venture capital funds that support them, counseling on formation, corporate governance, employee incentive plans, intellectual property protection and licensing, operations, financings, and other matters.

Mr. Marcks is an adjunct professor of Temple University Law School in Japan, where he teaches a course on international contract drafting.

Bars and Courts
California State Bar, 2000
Registered as Gaikokuho Jimu Bengoshi in Japan, 2008

Education
JD, University of Texas at Austin, with Honors, 2000
Kyushu University, Japan, Japanese Ministry of Education Scholarship, 1997
MA, Harvard University, 1995
BA, Middlebury College, 1991

Speaking Engagements and Publications
Co-Presenter: "Could Livedoor Have Happened in the U.S.?- An Introduction to U.S. Corporate and Securities Laws in the Context of M&A Transactions," sponsored by JETRO and the Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Northern California, March 23, 2006, Palo Alto, California (in Japanese).
Co-Presenter: "Doing Business in California," a monthly seminar series on U.S. law for Japanese business executives in Northern California, since 2005-2007, Palo Alto, California (in Japanese).
Presentations to the legal departments of several Japanese companies on creditors’ rights under U.S. law, January 2005, Tokyo (in Japanese).
Co-Author, Ethical Issues in Patent Prosecution, in Practicing Law Institute Course Handbook on Fundamentals of Patent Prosecution 7 (M Molano ed., 2002).
Author, Avoiding Human Rights Abuses in Project Finance, 22 ENERGY LAW JOURNAL 301 (2001).
Co-Author, Advertising on the Internet, 17 CEB Cal. Bus. L. Prac. 35 (Spring 2002) and in E-Commerce & Internet Law, CLE International (2001).
Co-Author, Peer–to-Peer Networks After Napster, in Internet Law For Electronic Commerce In California, Lorman Educational Services (2001) and　in Proceedings of the 26th Annual Intellectual Property Institute (2001).
Author, Note, English Law in Early Hong Kong: Colonial Law as a Means for Control and Liberation, 35 TEX. INT'L L.J. 265 (1999).
Author, Tribute to Dr. James West, 34 TEX. INT'L L.J. 1(1999).

Languages
English
French
Japanese

Citizenship
United States
France