Akin Expands Leading Private Equity Transactions Practice with Addition of Partner Elina Alperovich

(New York) – Akin is pleased to announce that Elina Alperovich has joined the firm as a private equity transactions partner in New York, further expanding the firm’s top-tier private equity capabilities.

Alperovich brings extensive experience advising private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies on a broad range of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, minority and growth investments, joint ventures, carve-outs and divestitures, restructurings, SPACs and de-SPACs, and investments in general partners. She has steered complex transactions and investments across a variety of industries, including healthcare, business services, financial services, asset management, insurance, consumer products, entertainment, technology, infrastructure and energy.

“We are excited for Elina to join us as we continue growing our leading private equity practice,” said Akin chairperson Kim Koopersmith. “Elina advises clients on some of their most complex transactions. Her arrival adds scale to our private capital footprint and will be a benefit to our private equity and other financial sponsor clients.”

Corporate practice co-head Zachary Wittenberg added, “Elina is a talented dealmaker who brings both in-house counsel and private practice experience to our firm. Our private equity clients and their portfolio companies will benefit from her impressive M&A track record, sophisticated understanding of the market, and practical perspective of their needs.”

“I’m delighted to be joining Akin, which has a comprehensive, fully integrated team and deep roots advising clients on all aspects of the private capital life cycle,” said Alperovich on her move. “I look forward to collaborating alongside Akin’s high performing and dynamic team to continue providing the highest caliber service to our clients.”

Alperovich was previously transaction counsel at Apollo Global Management and is a veteran of Kirkland & Ellis, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Greenberg Traurig, where she was a shareholder.

Alperovich is the latest addition to the firm’s corporate practice over the last year, with Akin having added private capital partner Payson Lyman in Boston; private equity partner Andrew Lehman, energy transactions partners Trent Bridges and Ian Goldberg, and capital markets partner Bryan Flannery in Houston; private credit partners Bill Brady and Scott Colton and real estate partner Avi Feinberg in New York; a three-partner technology transactions team in London with Justin Stock joining as head of the firm’s international technology practice, along with Stephen Rosen and David Bresnick; energy partner Rob Butler in London; and projects & energy transition partner April Kim in California.

About Akin’s Private Equity Practice

Akin’s private equity practice brings together a global M&A team focused on clients across the funds space with one of the world’s leading investment management and tax teams. With more than 40 years of experience advising private equity funds, the firm has helped some of the industry’s pioneers form funds and deploy capital around the world since the earliest days of the modern funds industry. Clients include traditional leveraged buyout and buyout funds, as well as energy, private debt, distressed, activist shareholder, secondary and other sector specific funds.

Akin is a leading international law firm with more than 900 lawyers in offices throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

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