Daniel Quinn

Partner

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Daniel Quinn

Partner

daniel.quinn@akingump.com

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Biography
  • Advises investment managers on an array of fund formation matters.
  • Counsels on secondary transactions and GP-led restructurings.
  • Advises a broad range of investors on various aspects of their investment programs.

Daniel Quinn has extensive experience advising private equity funds, and their investors, on a wide range of investment funds work. Daniel has advised fund managers across the private equity, credit, and infrastructure sectors in both established and developing markets.

In addition, Daniel is a market-leading adviser on secondary transactions having been lead adviser on the largest unsyndicated secondary deal, and the largest GP-led restructuring to date.

Daniel also acts for investors in funds, regularly counselling sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, government agencies and others on various aspects of their investment program including participation in funds, co-investments and managed accounts.

Representative Work
  • Led the team advising a premier secondary house on the raising of its $6 billion flagship fund.*
  • Advised on a $2.1 billion GP-led restructuring for the lead buyer in a highly complex and market-setting transaction.*
  • Represented a newly formed green infrastructure manager in the establishment of its fund and co-invest vehicles, raising $1.5 billion in total.*
  • Lead adviser to one of the most active sovereign wealth investors in private equity, representing them in dozens of transactions across the whole of their platform.
  • Advising a global private equity house in the establishment of a €1 billion distressed debt fund.

*The experience was gained at a previous law firm.

Education
  • DLP, University of Edinburgh, 1999

  • LL.B., University of Edinburgh, 1998

Bar Admissions
  • Law Society of Scotland

  • Registered Foreign Lawyer in England and Wales

Recognitions
    • Chambers UK, Investment Funds: Private Equity, 2020-2024, Investment Funds: Private Equity: Secondaries, 2021 to 2024.
    • Chambers Europe, Investment Funds: Private Equity, 2021 to 2022.
    • The Legal 500 UK, Leading Individual: Private Funds, 2021-2024, Hedge Funds, 2024, Private Funds, 2020.
  • Chambers UK, Up and Coming, Investment Funds: Private Equity, 2020 to 2022.
  • Private Funds Management, Top 30 Private Funds Lawyers Under 40, 2015.
  • Legal Business Awards, Private Equity Team of the Year, 2013.
Affiliations and Public Service
  • Member, Law Society of Scotland.
Speeches and Publications
  • “State of the Union: Akin Gump and Rede Partners Discuss the Outlook for Private Equity Primaries and Secondaries,” Webinar, November 2020.
  • “#2020 — A New Investor Frontier?” Akin Gump’s Virtual New York Private Investment Funds Conference: 5-Part Webinar Series, Webinar, September 2020.
  • “How Asset Owners are Navigating Cross-Border Deals, Global Shareholder Engagement, and Perceiving Attitude Shifts in Corporate Governance,” Institute Fund Summit Asia hosted by the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute, Singapore, May 2019.

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