Patrick B. Fenn
Partner
pfenn@akingump.com
Areas of Focus
- International Tax
- Investment Management & Transactional Tax
- Real Estate & Infrastructure Funds
- Tax
- Tax-Exempt Organizations
- Emerging Markets Funds Transactions
- Energy & Natural Resources Funds
- Seeding Transactions
- Hedge Funds
- Energy & Infrastructure
- Investment Management
- Renewable Energy
- Real Estate
- Credit Funds
- Infrastructure & Transportation
- Sovereign & Government Investors
- Energy Transition
- Private Client & Family Office Services
- Fund Formation
- Fund Manager Transactions
- Institutional Investors
- Projects & Energy Transition
- Global Investment Adviser Regulatory
- Private Equity Transactions
- Sports
- Private Equity
- Private Capital
Biography
- Focuses on the tax aspects of alternative investment vehicles, complex transactions and financial restructurings.
- Co-leader of the firm’s tax practice group.
Patrick has been lead tax counsel on numerous large domestic and multijurisdictional mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures. He provides tax advice to domestic and foreign entities in structuring acquisitions and operations around the world. Patrick has handled matters in the United States, Asia, Europe and South America.
Patrick focuses on the tax aspects of a variety of complex transactions and investment vehicles, including:
- Private equity funds
- Hedge funds
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Joint ventures
- Partnerships
- Investments by foreign sovereign financing transactions
- Financial restructurings
- Financial instruments.
He is co-leader of the firm’s tax practice group and was one of the founding partners of the firm’s New York office in April 1993.
EducationJ.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 1982
B.A., University of Virginia, with honors, 1977
J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 1982
B.A., University of Virginia, with honors, 1977
Bar AdmissionsNew York
New York
Recognitions
- Chambers USA, Tax, 2019-2024.
- The Legal 500 US, Investment Fund Formation and Management: Private Equity Funds, 2016; US Taxes: Non-Contentious, 2022-2024.
- The Best Lawyers in America, Tax Law, 2012-2022.
- Who’s Who Legal 100, Tax, 2014 and 2016.
- Who’s Who Legal—Compendium Edition, 2016 - 2017.
