Ranesh Ramanathan
Partner
Areas of Focus
- Private Capital
- Credit Funds
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Fund Manager Transactions
- Capital Markets
- Corporate & Finance
- Corporate Governance
- Seeding Transactions
- Private Credit
- Investment Management
- Financial Restructuring
- Private Equity Transactions
- Private Equity
- Capital Solutions
- Leader of Akin’s global capital solutions team.
- Delivers creative capital solutions representing both companies and capital providers worldwide.
- Focuses on bespoke capital investment structures spanning equity, debt and hybrid transactions.
- Global practice helping companies and investors pursuing opportunities in key regions across the world.
- Former managing director at Bain Capital and general counsel to Bain Capital’s credit business.
Ranesh is the leader of Akin’s globally integrated capital solutions team and co-leader of the firm’s special situations & private credit practice. With a global practice and platform, Ranesh provides bespoke capital solutions to a broad array of clients. He helps companies raise capital and investors deploy capital in complex situations across debt & equity, hybrid and structured solutions, joint ventures, rollups and spinouts.
Ranesh has a particular focus on creative investment structures tailored to private capital investors and public and private companies. He helps clients to find the right mix of debt, equity or hybrid solutions.
Drawing on his deep and diverse experience across the full spectrum of issues facing private capital investors, Ranesh represents some of the world’s largest global asset managers on a wide variety of matters, as well as advising private equity firms and their portfolio companies in a range of traditional large cap and middle-market acquisition and financing transactions. Ranesh has extensive experience negotiating, structuring and managing complex transactions globally—across the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia—including acquiring diverse multijurisdictional portfolios of assets, extracting entire business units from distressed sellers and structuring other multinational, cross-border transactions and deals.
In addition to his work across the investment spectrum, Ranesh has managed the legal aspects of investments in publicly traded and pre-IPO companies, and has worked with a variety of fund types, including closed-ended, open-ended and managed accounts in a wide variety of strategies.
Ranesh returned to private practice in 2018 after nearly 15 years in in-house legal roles with Bain Capital and Citigroup. Ranesh was a managing director at Bain Capital and general counsel to Bain Capital’s credit and public markets businesses.
EducationJ.D., New York University School of Law, 1999
B.A., Johns Hopkins University, 1993
J.D., New York University School of Law, 1999
B.A., Johns Hopkins University, 1993
Bar AdmissionsMassachusetts
New York
Massachusetts
New York
- Chambers USA, Banking & Finance, 2024.
- The Legal 500 US, Commercial Lending, 2019 and 2023.
- Moderator, “Distressed & Special Situations Panel,” 28th Annual Harvard Business School Venture Capital Private Equity Conference, February 5, 2022
- Moderator, “Creative Capital,” Columbia Business School’s 28th Annual Private Equity Virtual Conference, February 4, 2022
- Moderator, “Distressed and Special Situation Opportunities,” Creditflux/Debtwire U.S. Private Credit Forum, November 10, 2021
- Moderator, “State of the Middle-Market,” CreditFlux/Debtwire U.S. Private Credit Forum, October 15, 2020
- Moderator, “Distressed & Special Situations,” HBS’s Venture Capital Private Equity Conference, February 8, 2020
- Moderator, “Special Situations & Distressed,” 25th Annual Wharton Private Equity & Venture Capital Conference, March 22, 2019
- Presenter, “Prepacks – A blueprint for India,” Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India & SIPI Roundtable, March 15, 2019
- Panelist, “2019 Market Outlook,” 100WF Panel, February 7, 2019
- Moderator, “Turnaround, Distressed & Special Situations,” Harvard Business School’s Venture Capital and Private Equity Club Conference, January 26, 2019
- Moderator, “Spectrum of Opportunities Within Private Debt,” LPGP Connect Private Debt Conference 2018, May 22, 2018
- Panelist, “Panel Discussion: Innovative Products,” Irish Funds Annual Global Funds Conference 2018, May 17, 2018