Grant Ogulnick
Counsel
Areas of Focus
- Capital Solutions
- Private Capital
- Preferred Equity & Hybrid Capital
- Corporate & Finance
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Special Situations
- Corporate Governance
- Private Credit
- Advises private capital investors in connection with bespoke equity and hybrid capital solutions across sectors and market cycles (including special situations and distressed transactions).
Grant is a counsel on the firm’s global capital solutions team. He focuses on a wide range of complex corporate transactions, including advising special situations funds, private equity firms, global asset managers, other strategic investors and their portfolio companies in the corporate and equity aspects of transactions, including preferred and structured equity financings, divestitures, joint ventures, mergers & acquisitions (M&A) and general corporate and governance matters.
Prior to joining Akin, Grant was an M&A associate at another international law firm based in New York City.
Grant earned his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and his B.B.A. from the University of Miami.
- Represented Bain Capital Special Situations in landmark $1.245 billion fixed-rate note offering and “E Note” issuance by GGAM Master Trust, its newly established securitization platform for mid-life commercial aircraft.
- Represented Krispy Kreme in its sale of a majority ownership stake in Insomnia Cookies.
- Represented New York Community Bancorp (now Flagstar Financial Inc.) in its over $1 billion recapitalization via a capital raise led by Liberty Strategic Capital, Hudson Bay and Reverence Capital.
- Represented Banc of California in its merger with PacWest and concurrent capital raise from Warburg Pincus and Centerview.
- Represented Veritex Holdings in its sale of Thrive Mortgage and investment in Lower Mortgage.
- Represented Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation in its strategic partnership and minority investment in Jefferies Financial Group.
- Represented DMG Bancshares in its acquisition of Liberty Bank.
List includes experience prior to joining Akin.
EducationJ.D., Georgetown University Law Center, magna cum laude, 2020
B.B.A., University of Miami, cum laude, 2016
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, magna cum laude, 2020
B.B.A., University of Miami, cum laude, 2016
Bar AdmissionsNew York
New York
- Student Honors Legal Intern, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Division of Enforcement, 2018.
