Private Equity Transactions

Akin’s private equity transactions team has decades of experience helping clients achieve transactional success around the world.

Deep Experience

We have experience across the full spectrum of private equity transactions and at all levels of the capital structure. Our lawyers bring to each transaction deep market knowledge and proprietary insight into emerging trends to structure deals that are aligned with our clients’ investment strategies. In addition to a long track record of deal execution, we assist clients on issues impacting dealmaking today—including growing environmental, social & governance (ESG)-related pressures, changing tax considerations and regulatory issues globally.

Full Suite of Services

We advise on mergers & acquisitions (M&A), special situations, distressed transactions, leveraged finance, carve-outs, portfolio company deals, secondary deals and all aspects of fund formation, tax structuring and regulation.

Drawing on our rich heritage advising many of the pioneers of the modern funds industry, our private equity team is multidisciplinary and fully integrated. Lawyers across the firm focus exclusively on private equity and credit funds, and work seamlessly on intricate fund formation, tax structuring, debt & equity finance, regulatory and litigation considerations.

With the resources of a full-service global law firm, we help our clients in key financial centers—including throughout the United States, London, Singapore, the Middle East, Hong Kong, China and Africa—enter new markets.

We regularly advise private equity sponsors, sovereign wealth funds, strategic investors and family offices on complex cross-border investments. Combining our cross-border capabilities with our multidisciplinary approach, our private equity transactions team:

• Leads complex and innovative leveraged and management buyouts.
• Advises on competitive merger and acquisition auctions.
• Works seamlessly with the firm’s financial restructuring lawyers to handle distressed asset and special situations transactions.
• Creates unique financing arrangements, including those involving a mix of credit, structured equity and control and non-control positions.
• Structures forward-thinking downside protections.
• Advises on private equity fund structuring, formation and management and deployment of capital.
• Provides integrated regulatory advice to create a deal execution strategy to maximize the likelihood that a deal will close.
• Assists with associated issues, including tax, executive compensation, Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), labor, environmental, real estate and litigation advice in connection with transaction execution.
• Acts as outside counsel to private equity portfolio companies.

We also bring deep experience across a range of industries, including energy & infrastructure; telecom, media & technology (TMT); health care & life sciences; financial services (including fintech); retail & leisure; and government contracting and defense.