Biography
Eric Franklin Horvitz is an experienced corporate lawyer who has counseled companies on business and tax issues in northern Virginia and beyond for more than 30 years.
Eric helps businesses negotiate asset acquisitions and dispositions, finance transactions (both equity and debt) and structure executive compensation. He also helps owners of closely held companies understand how a business issue may affect their personal estate planning. To that end, Eric represents clients in estate planning matters involving wills, trusts and estates and advises businesses on succession planning, complex trusts and fiduciary liability.
Eric has completed numerous M&A and mezzanine funding transactions for private equity firms.
He also helps clients resolve tax controversies, representing taxpayers before the Internal Revenue Service and state authorities in examination and collection efforts in income, sales and use and estate and gift tax matters.
Among his industry honors, Eric has been listed among Virginia Business magazine’s “Legal Elite” for business law three times.
Services
- Estate Planning & Administration
- Estates & Trusts
- Mezzanine & Subordinated Debt Finance
- Asset-Based Lending & Commercial Finance
- Banking & Finance
- Corporate Finance
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- State, Local & Federal Tax
- Stock Option & Other Equity Compensation Programs
- Corporate, Securities & Tax
- Private Equity/Venture Capital
- Emerging Business
Industries
Education
- University of Michigan (B.A., 1988)
- George Washington University Law School (J.D., 1991)
- New York University (L.L.M., 1994)
- Taxation
Bar Admissions
- Maryland, 1991
- District of Columbia
- Virginia
Court Admissions
- United States Tax Court
- United States Court of Federal Claims
Professional Affiliations
- American Bar Association: Taxation and Real Property, Trust and Estate Law sections
- Association for Corporate Growth
- Northern Virginia Estate Planning Council
- Greater Reston Chamber of Commerce
- INCspire Education Foundation: Board member
Special Honors
- Best Lawyers in America®: Selected for inclusion in the areas of Tax Law - Tysons (2023-2026) and Trusts and Estates, Corporate Law and Mergers and Acquisitions Law - Tysons (2025-2026)
- Virginia Business Magazine Legal Elite – Corporate Counsel (2021), Business Law (2025)
- Arlington Magazine‘s “Top Attorneys – Tax Law” (2022)
- Virginia Business magazine’s “Legal Elite” – Business Law (2006, 2012, 2014, 2020 and 2023-2024)
- SmartCEO magazine “Legal Elite” (2011)
- Virginia Super Lawyer – Tax Law (2006-2007)
- Washington, D.C. Super Lawyer – Tax Law (2007-2008)
