Nina Melanie Orendain
Practice Attorney
Areas of Focus
- Hedge Funds
- Corporate & Finance
- Emerging Markets Funds Transactions
- Energy & Natural Resources Funds
- Real Estate & Infrastructure Funds
- Pro Bono
- Investment Management
- Global Investment Adviser Regulatory
- Institutional Investors
- Fund Formation
- Private Equity Transactions
- Private Equity
- Private Capital
Nina Melanie Orendain is a member of the firm’s investment management practice. Ms. Orendain advises investment fund clients in conducting private placements, with an emphasis on registration or exemption issues, including Blue Sky review. She has advised on Loan Syndications & Trading Association-governed, secondary market and distressed debt trades. Ms. Orendain’s experience also includes advising clients on a variety of business entity formation and business transaction issues.
Ms. Orendain is currently a member of the Dallas office’s diversity and inclusion council, and pro bono committee.
Prior to joining Akin, Ms. Orendain practiced in the area of general corporate and securities law at another Dallas law firm. While a shareholder at a third Dallas law firm, Ms. Orendain advised governmental entities, such as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and Resolution Trust Corporation, in loan workout and restructure transactions, bulk sales of loans, and real estate assets and loan foreclosures.
Ms. Orendain received her A.B. in communications/journalism in 1977 from Stanford University and her J.D. in 1980 from Berkeley Law, University of California.
Ms. Orendain is a member of the State Bar of Texas, the Dallas Bar Association and the Dallas Hispanic Bar Association.
LanguagesSpanish
Spanish
EducationJ.D., University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, 1980
A.B., Stanford University, 1977
J.D., University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, 1980
A.B., Stanford University, 1977
Bar AdmissionsTexas
Texas
- Dallas Hispanic Bar Association, La Luz Award, 2024.
- Legal Aid of NorthWest Texas, Louise Raggio Women’s Legal Advocate Award, 2024.
- Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program, Chris Reed-Brown Pro Bono Award, 2023.
Ms. Orendain’s community, civic and charitable activities include assisting clients through the Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program, for which activities Ms. Orendain was awarded a February 2011 DVAP’s Finest commendation and, the 2012 Lois Bacon Pro Bono Volunteer Award, and a Texas Bar Blog October 2019 Pro Bono Spotlight .