Akin Gump Names Alison Chen and Alissa Miller as New Partners in Charge in Houston and LA
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(Houston and Los Angeles) – Akin Gump is pleased to announce that tax partner Alison Chen and entertainment partner Alissa Miller have been named partners in charge of the Houston and Los Angeles offices, respectively.
“I am thrilled to see Alison and Alissa take on these roles,” said Akin Gump chairperson Kim Koopersmith. “They are both outstanding practitioners and outstanding partners who have been integral to the success of their offices. Both have also been strong contributors to our firm’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. With leadership as one of our core pillars of our DEI strategy, I’m gratified to have two fantastic women assume important leadership roles in the firm. I am confident that they will be extremely successful leaders of our Houston and L.A. offices.”
Ms. Chen, who joined the firm in 2015, is a Chambers-ranked, leading tax lawyer in the energy space, providing business-critical advice to clients on the tax aspects of their energy deals, including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and other partnership arrangements; recapitalizations; restructuring; and other financing transactions. Further, she has long been an advocate for greater DEI in the legal industry, and whose efforts have been recognized by Texas Lawyer, Houston Business Journal and the State Bar of Texas Asian Pacific Interest Section. Ms. Chen also serves on the firm’s partnership admissions committee and firmwide DEI council; and chairs the Houston office women’s professional development initiatives.
In Los Angeles, Ms. Miller has been recognized by the top industry publications, including Chambers USA, Los Angeles Times and Variety, as a leader in the entertainment finance industry and a top-shelf Hollywood dealmaker, having helmed some of the most sophisticated deals between independent movie production companies and financial institutions. Further, since the onset of the pandemic, Ms. Miller has been a steadfast and successful advocate for the entertainment industry, having co-led Akin Gump’s cross-practice efforts to assist the American Coalition for Independent Content Production, a coalition of more than two dozen independent production companies seeking COVID-19 relief aid (learn more here).
About Akin Gump’s Houston and Los Angeles offices
Established in 1988, Akin Gump’s Houston office has long served as the firm’s nexus for its industry-leading energy practice, working closely with offices around the world to advise clients across key areas of strength including corporate, tax, litigation, labor, intellectual property and international trade.
The firm’s Los Angeles office, which opened in 1997, offers a full suite of top-flight legal services across a broad range of practices from corporate—covering entertainment, project finance, real estate and structured finance—to litigation—including labor and Supreme Court and appellate—to public law and policy.
Both offices have been consistently recognized for their welcoming and collaborative workplace culture, having been named among the cities’ top workplaces and ranked among the top 10 in The American Lawyer’s U.S. Midlevel Associates and Summer Associates surveys (learn more here).
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP 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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