About Eric
Eric Tetrault moved from a philosophy undergraduate degree into the law, drawing a line through tax studies to corporate practice. He earned a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Arizona in 2004. He then took his law degree at Golden Gate University School of Law, receiving a J.D. in 2009 and an LL.M. in Taxation in 2010. Those credentials shaped an early interest in tax and transactional work.
His legal career began in the federal tax arena. In 2009 he served as a law clerk in the Tax Division of the United States Lawyer’s Office. He spent the next several years in private practice at smaller firms, joining Lerner, Veit & Stanaland, LLP in 2010 and Tiemstra Law Group, PC in 2011. Those early roles exposed him to both litigated and transactional matters and provided experience across a range of client needs.
By the mid-2010s Tetrault was doing transactions and restructuring work. In 2015 he handled real estate transactions, corporate matters, tax issues and bankruptcy and creditors’ rights at Berliner Cohen, LLP. He moved into partner roles focused on corporate transactions in 2017 at Higgs Fletcher & Mack. In 2021 he worked as a corporate, M&A and securities lawyer at Husch Blackwell. He joined Solomon Minton Cardinal Doyle & Smith LLP as a partner in 2022, continuing a practice that crosses corporate deals and insolvency-related work.
Tetrault has also maintained a role in legal education. He served as an adjunct professor at Golden Gate University School of Law in 2014. More recently he taught Mergers & Acquisitions as an adjunct professor at the University of San Diego School of Law in 2023. Those teaching roles reflect the transactional emphasis of his practice and an interest in preparing students for deal work.
Outside of the classroom he participates in local and regional professional groups. He is secretary of the Bankruptcy Section of the Alameda County Bar Association and serves on the Barrister’s Executive Committee for the Commercial Law & Bankruptcy Section of the Bar Association of San Francisco. He sits on the board of the Bay Area Bankruptcy Forum and holds memberships in the California Receiver’s Forum and the Turnaround Management Association’s NextGen Global Committee. These activities keep him connected to bankruptcy and restructuring developments.
Tetrault’s background in tax and his sequence of transactional and insolvency roles inform the work he accepts for clients. He handles corporate, M&A, securities, and bankruptcy matters at Solomon Minton Cardinal Doyle & Smith LLP.
