Fadi G. Samman is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP and is a member of the investment funds and private equity practices.
Mr. Samman’s practice focuses on the domestic and international private investment funds industry, representing fund sponsors in connection with the organization, structuring and operation of private investment funds, including private equity funds, real estate funds, venture capital funds, fund of funds, secondary funds and hedge funds. Mr. Samman also advises institutional investors in connection with their investments in private investments funds, including the acquisition and sale of those investments on the secondary market. His clients include KK daVinci Advisors, Grove International Partners, GE Capital, Oak Hill Investment Management, Warburg Pincus and AllianceBernstein, among others.
Mr. Samman also represents his investment fund clients in connection with their investment activity, including leveraged buyouts, joint ventures and minority equity investment transactions. In particular, he has represented private equity and venture capital funds in connection with numerous preferred stock investments in technology and emerging growth companies. Mr. Samman also regularly counsels emerging growth companies from their initial start-up phase through multiple rounds of financing, strategic growth and exit opportunities.
Mr. Samman received his B.A., cum laude, in English from Georgetown University in 1996 and his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1999. He is a member of the Maryland, District of Columbia and Virginia bar associations.
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