Corporations and financial investors throughout the world are grappling with heightened regulation and shifting paradigms in the aftermath of the sustained global recession. Akin Gump’s corporate team helps clients tackle their most difficult challenges and seize an array of market opportunities. In a continually challenging and rapidly evolving business environment, our lawyers conceive innovative strategies which, coupled with superior experience and dedication, enables our clients to achieve their corporate transactional and long-term business goals.
We counsel private equity and hedge funds, public and private companies, sovereign entities and financial advisors in connection with their transactional, finance and ongoing business needs. We regularly lead complex and sophisticated transactions, crossing borders and industries—including numerous heavily regulated industries. Our bank finance and capital markets specialists counsel our clients on all aspects of their bank, bond and equity capital needs. In addition, we often work with our financial restructuring lawyers on chapter 11 and out-of-court restructurings, as well as on a variety of distressed transactions, including debtor-in-possession financings, spin-offs and divestitures. We regularly call upon the experience of practitioners across Akin Gump’s full-service platform, including tax, ERISA, labor, real estate, investment funds, environmental, antitrust, regulatory and policy specialists. For our clients, this means efficient, effective counsel that balances risk mitigation with results.
Akin Gump’s corporate team has been recognized for its role in numerous headline-making transactions, including some of the largest recent transactions in the financial services, energy and telecommunications industries. Leveraging our global footprint, we have been recognized for our involvement in some of the most prominent transactions across the United States, Europe and the emerging markets as reported by mergermarket. In 2010, we handled in excess of $146 billion in transactions. We have been ranked prominently by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, M&A Advisor, Corporate Board Member and the Financial Times in recognition of successes achieved on behalf of our clients.
Our practice includes the following principal areas—
In addition, we have specialized experience in the following concentrations—