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Chicago

Akin launched in Chicago in 2025 with a focus on private capital and corporate clients.  

Our Chicago team has a sophisticated real estate funds practice advising on complex investment vehicles. The group provides comprehensive advice to many of the largest real estate private equity firms and sector-specific operators and allocators in the formation of open-end and closed-end private equity funds. These funds cover a wide range of real estate and real estate-related investment strategies across the United States, Asia-Pacific and Europe.

The M&A team works with infrastructure, private equity and other investors on complex  investments, joint ventures and other transactions.  They have market-leading experience in transportation, including short line, railcar and other railroad transactions and ports, steel manufacturing, renewable energy and digital infrastructure, including data centers.

190 S. LaSalle Street
Chicago, IL 60603 US

+1 312.276.0400

+1 312.276.0482

190 S. LaSalle Street
Chicago, IL 60603 US

+1 312.276.0400

+1 312.276.0482

Meet Our Chicago Team

Chicago Services & Sectors

Corporate

Our market-leading corporate lawyers work with clients to structure and execute complex transactions and devise creative debt & equity capital solutions around the world. Our team of 300+ transactional lawyers, in major financial centers on three continents, works across borders, industries and the capital structure.

We provide counsel to alternative capital providers, including private equity, private credit, infrastructure, sovereign wealth and other investment funds, public and private companies, boards of directors and family offices, in connection with mergers & acquisitions (M&A), capital solutions and other investments, debt financings and capital markets transactions, energy & infrastructure transactions and corporate governance matters worldwide.