Daniel Quinn
Partner
Areas of Focus
- Fund Formation
- Private Funds Liquidity Solutions
- Investment Management
- Fund Manager Transactions
- Private Equity Transactions
- Private Equity
- Energy & Infrastructure Private Equity
- Private Capital
- Evergreen Funds
- Advises investment managers on an array of fund formation matters.
- Counsels on secondary transactions and GP-led restructurings.
- Advises a broad range of investors on various aspects of their investment programs.
Daniel has extensive experience advising private equity funds, and their investors, on a wide range of investment funds work. Daniel has advised fund managers across the private equity, credit, and infrastructure sectors in both established and developing markets.
In addition, Daniel is a market-leading adviser on secondary transactions having been lead adviser on the largest unsyndicated secondary deal, and the largest GP-led restructuring to date.
Daniel also acts for investors in funds, regularly counselling sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, government agencies and others on various aspects of their investment program including participation in funds, co-investments and managed accounts.
- Led the team advising a premier secondary house on the raising of its $6 billion flagship fund.
- Advised on a $2.1 billion GP-led restructuring for the lead buyer in a highly complex and market-setting transaction.
- Represented a newly formed green infrastructure manager in the establishment of its fund and co-invest vehicles, raising $1.5 billion in total.
- Lead adviser to one of the most active sovereign wealth investors in private equity, representing them in dozens of transactions across the whole of their platform.
- Advising a global private equity house in the establishment of a €1 billion distressed debt fund.
List may include matters worked on prior to joining Akin.
EducationDLP, University of Edinburgh, 1999
LL.B., University of Edinburgh, 1998
DLP, University of Edinburgh, 1999
LL.B., University of Edinburgh, 1998
Bar AdmissionsLaw Society of Scotland
Registered Foreign Lawyer in England and Wales
Law Society of Scotland
Registered Foreign Lawyer in England and Wales
- Chambers UK, Investment Funds: Private Equity, 2020-2025; Investment Funds: Private Equity: Secondaries, 2021-2025.
- Chambers Europe, Investment Funds: Private Equity, 2021-2022.
- The Legal 500 UK, Leading Partner: Private Funds, 2021-2025; Hedge Funds, 2024; Private Funds, 2020.
- Private Funds Management, Top 30 Private Funds Lawyers Under 40, 2015.
- Legal Business Awards, Private Equity Team of the Year, 2013.
- Member, Law Society of Scotland.
- “State of the Union: Akin and Rede Partners Discuss the Outlook for Private Equity Primaries and Secondaries,” Webinar, November 2020.
- “#2020 — A New Investor Frontier?” Akin Virtual New York Private Investment Funds Conference: 5-Part Webinar Series, Webinar, September 2020.
- “How Asset Owners are Navigating Cross-Border Deals, Global Shareholder Engagement, and Perceiving Attitude Shifts in Corporate Governance,” Institute Fund Summit Asia hosted by the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute, Singapore, May 2019.