Nicholas D. Rice
Counsel
Areas of Focus
- Fund Formation
- Sovereign & Government Investors
- Investment Management
- Global Investment Adviser Regulatory
- Real Estate & Infrastructure Funds
- Credit Funds
- Private Equity
- Represents fund sponsors in connection with the formation and ongoing operation of private investment vehicles.
- Advises on the formation of funds across investment strategies, including private equity, credit, hybrid and evergreen fund structures, among others.
- Represents private equity funds and management teams on a range of strategic transactions and investment matters.
Nick focuses on private equity and investment management matters, with a concentration on fund formation and structuring, capital raising, private equity investments, joint ventures, reorganizations and other strategic transactions. In addition, he advises investors in connection with their investments in investment funds.
Nick represents a broad array of investors, including global asset managers and institutional investors such as sovereign wealth funds. He has deep experience advising on the full spectrum of investment strategies, including private equity, secondaries, continuation funds, real estate, credit, fund of funds, hybrid and evergreen funds.
Advising on investments and transactions across a wide range of industries, Nick represents clients in investment management & private equity, venture capital, real estate and infrastructure.
Prior to joining Akin in 2021, Nick was an attorney at another major global law firm.
- Represented a global investment management firm on the formation of a fund of one with an evergreen fund structure.
- Advised on the structuring and formation of a hybrid fund on behalf of a leading alternative investment manager.
- Advised Jasper Ridge Partners on the successful acquisition of a slice of 26 growth portfolio companies from Goldman Sachs. Jasper Ridge Partners acted as co-lead investor in the investment, together with CPPIB, which involved a strip sale to a continuation fund and included a new stapled primary commitment.
- Representing private equity funds, hedge funds and other domestic and offshore private funds pursuing a variety of investment strategies.
- Structuring and forming business entities, including corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies.
- Representing a sovereign wealth fund in its investments into hedge funds, private equity and venture capital funds and fund of funds.
- Advising private equity and hedge funds in their compliance with securities laws.
- Representing an established fund manager in connection with the formation and documentation of single-investor partnerships.
List may include matters worked on prior to joining Akin.
EducationJ.D., University of Texas School of Law, with honors, 2016
B.S., Louisiana State University, summa cum laude, 2012
J.D., University of Texas School of Law, with honors, 2016
B.S., Louisiana State University, summa cum laude, 2012
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