How Hoag’s Top Lawyer Helped Win $207M Ziggurat Deal

Eric Cheung is more comfortable behind the scenes than in the spotlight. But as senior vice president, chief legal officer and general counsel of Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, he has been instrumental in many of the nonprofit health system’s major decisions, from restoring its independence to pursuing major expansion across Orange County. “I’ve never been one to seek attention,” Cheung told the Business Journal. “I prefer to put our leaders and people on my team up ahead of myself.” Since joining Hoag in 2021 as its first in-house general counsel in nearly a decade, Cheung has guided legal strategy behind Hoag’s largest investments, including raising $900 million in bond financing to support Hoag’s $1.2 billion Sun Family Campus expansion in Irvine. Most recently, he oversaw Hoag’s $207 million acquisition of the 89-acre Ziggurat property in Laguna Niguel, capping a two-year battle that included a lost bidding war, a legal challenge and a canceled federal auction.

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