Akin Continues Energy & Infrastructure Practice Growth with Addition of Leading Lawyers in New York and Washington, D.C.
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(New York and Washington, D.C.) – Akin announced today that Ron Erlichman and Nick Atwood have joined the firm’s market-leading energy & infrastructure practice as partners in the firm’s New York and Washington, D.C. offices, respectively.
Joining from Linklaters, where Erlichman served as co-head of the firm’s energy & infrastructure practice in the Americas, Erlichman and Atwood further strengthen Akin’s premier energy & infrastructure platform advising clients on their most in-demand projects, including traditional and renewable power generation, battery storage, data centers, carbon capture, synthetic fuels and other energy transition projects as well as mining and other infrastructure transactions.
Erlichman and Atwood focus their practice on the development, financing, acquisition and sale of energy & infrastructure projects, including conventional and renewable electrical power, energy transition projects, data centers, battery storage, hydrogen, synthetic fuels, carbon capture, utilization & storage (CCUS), transmission facilities, chemical and petrochemical facilities, terminals, and transportation projects. They advise sponsors, developers, lenders, private capital investors, and other project participants with respect to all phases of a project’s life cycle.
“With rapidly growing power needs driven by AI, data centers and electrification, our energy & infrastructure practice continues to see increasing client demand across a variety of transactions,” said Akin co-chair Abid Qureshi. “Ron and Nick’s experience will be a great benefit to our clients as they are developing and financing the next generation of the energy economy.”
“Ron and Nick are versatile energy & infrastructure dealmakers who are widely respected in the industry and well known to our team,” added corporate practice co-head Zachary Wittenberg. “Their experience across a wide range of cutting-edge energy projects and technologies is a terrific complement and will drive continued growth across our integrated energy offering.”
“I have long respected the strength and breadth of Akin’s energy platform and been impressed by its growth,” said Erlichman on his move to the firm. “Nick and I are excited to work with our new colleagues, many of whom we have known and worked with professionally for years.”
Erlichman and Atwood are the latest additions to the firm’s comprehensive energy & infrastructure platform, ranked by Chambers USA in Energy: Oil & Gas, Energy Transition and Projects: Renewables & Alternative Energy, with Akin having recently added energy transactions partners Charlie Ofner and Trent Bridges, capital markets partner Bryan Flannery and private equity partner Andrew Lehman in Houston, tax credits partner Mary Alexander in Washington, D.C., energy partner Rob Butler in London and projects & energy transition partners Chadron Edwards in New York and April Kim in California.
About Akin’s Energy & Infrastructure Practice
Akin is a leading advisor to companies and capital providers across the energy value chain. Our global, interdisciplinary team has market-leading experience across upstream, midstream, downstream, energy services and the spectrum of energy transition projects, including wind, solar, geothermal, hydroelectric, bioenergy, carbon capture, renewable natural gas, landfill gas, hydrogen, ammonia and sustainable aviation fuel. We serve as trusted counsel to public and private energy companies, private equity, credit, infrastructure and other investors, and management teams worldwide. We help clients develop, finance, construct, operate, buy and sell energy & infrastructure projects and companies throughout the world.
Akin is a leading international law firm with more than 900 lawyers in offices throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
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