Liquidity

Ms. Silaski joined Stephens in 1994 and is a Managing Director and senior member of the Private Company Advisory team. Throughout her investment banking career, she has advised private and family-owned companies, often multi-generational, as they consider financing alternatives and paths to maximize value.

Ms. Silaski has played a key role in structuring and negotiating private capital transactions for Stephens’ corporate clients across a broad range of industries and with a variety of capital sources, including family offices. Her experience includes minority and control transactions, preparing for and executing M&A transactions, as well as debt, equity, and equity-linked financings.

Prior to Stephens, Ms. Silaski managed equity and fixed income portfolios at a regional trust company. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and earned a BSBA with high honors in finance at the University of Arkansas.

Represents clients in mergers and acquisitions and other complex business transactions. Advises public and private companies, private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies. Deep experience representing distressed asset acquirers in distressed and other special situations transactions.

Eric represents public and private companies, private equity buyers and portfolio companies in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and other complex business transactions. He also advises on securities matters. Eric regularly counsels private equity and other investment vehicles on distressed and other special situations investments, both in and outside of formal bankruptcy proceedings.

Eric has structured complex deals in the health care, infrastructure, technology, media and telecommunications (TMT), energy and retail sectors. He also has extensive experience with industrial and manufacturing companies and business services companies.

Eric is a member of the State Bar of Texas and the Dallas Bar Association.