Akin Gump New York provides a full range of services in all major areas, and works effectively with the firm's other offices to provide innovative and effective solutions for our clients. The New York office is home to many of the firm’s key practices including financial restructuring, investment funds, private equity, litigation, corporate, labor and employment, tax, ERISA and real estate and finance.

Members of our financial restructuring practice have actively participated and appeared in numerous of the major bankruptcy cases in the United States. Our financial restructuring practice has a global reputation for representing constituencies with divergent interests, understanding the range of restructuring perspectives, and devising creative solutions to provide our clients with the best possible results. Our global representation of the various constituencies in restructurings and business rehabilitations includes official and unofficial committees of creditors, debtors (financially distressed companies), directors and officers of financially distressed companies, administrators, liquidators, receivers, trustees, and examiners, secured lenders and servicers of mortgage-backed securities, vendors, licensors, and lessors, purchasers of debt or assets of financially distressed companies and insurance companies as third-party creditors and litigants in state-law-based insurance company insolvency cases.

Many law firms speak to the comprehensiveness of their services in the area of investment management. At Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, the record of our full-service investment funds practice group speaks for itself. We have provided comprehensive representation — from initial organization and funding, through managing extraordinary growth — for many of the largest and most prominent funds in the world, including both hedge funds and private equity funds.

At Akin Gump, our innovative complete-cycle approach to private equity work helps clients build leading private equity franchises from the ground up. New York private equity lawyers complete-cycle approach adds value in all aspects and phases of private equity business – from structuring and organizing a private equity firm and all of the funds it sponsors, to assisting in the evaluation of investment opportunities, to structuring and completing investments and ultimately structuring and implementing exit strategies.

Akin Gump New York's litigation practice is nationally recognized. Our attorneys have extensive experience in all aspects of federal and state commercial litigation, as well as in matters of extraordinary complexity, including nationwide class actions, parallel civil and administrative proceedings, nationwide and multidistrict litigation, and matters involving massive document productions and other complicated discovery issues. In addition, our litigators have represented clients in many high-profile cases. Our clients include many of the country's largest Fortune 500 companies.

Our New York corporate lawyers work with clients on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and securities, international transactions, investment fund management, private equity, corporate restructuring, corporate governance, consumer business and day-to-day advice on general corporate matters. We manage every aspect of sophisticated corporate transactions, and we handle all aspects of business combinations, mergers and acquisitions occurring in the United States and internationally. Akin Gump's international transactions practice includes the representation of both U.S. and overseas companies.

Akin Gump’s New York labor practice has the experience and resources to provide sound advice and vigorous representation to employers regarding all aspects of employment law and labor relations. These lawyers, including former officials and lawyers from the U.S. Department of Labor, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and National Labor Relations Board, represent clients ranging in size from small businesses with only a handful of employees to some of the largest of the Fortune 500.

The New York tax practice group provides our corporate and investment fund clients with advice in the areas of domestic and international taxation, structuring of inbound and outbound multijurisdictional mergers and acquisitions, and complex multiparty international business transactions. Members of the tax practice group also have significant experience in partnership taxation matters, particularly in the context of investment funds and real estate transactions.

Employee benefits/executive compensation (ERISA) is a vital part of our globally recognized tax practice. We understand the increasing importance of this diverse and rapidly changing area of law and its significance to affairs of business. Our ERISA lawyers work on a wide variety of plans, arrangements and other aspects of employee benefits and executive compensation. At Akin Gump, it is our philosophy that this flexible, multidisciplinary approach offers our clients superior service and protection.

New York real estate and finance lawyers in our internationally recognized real estate and finance practice are committed to being good partners for our clients and providing innovative representation that is second to none in its comprehensiveness, vision and professionalism. We have extensive experience representing major public and private corporations, commercial and industrial developers, REITs, REMICs, commercial banks, insurance companies, institutional lenders, pension funds, mortgage servicers, investment bankers, contractors, domestic and offshore investors, hospitals and governments in a wide range of traditional and innovative real-estate related matters and projects.

Akin Gump New York is committed to giving back to our local community. Our lawyers dedicate their time and resources to various New York charities and organizations. In addition, our lawyers are actively involved in pro bono matters such as Human Rights First, Matter of R-K, No Child Left Behind and the Innocence Project.