Office Address

190 S. LaSalle Street
Chicago, IL 60603 US


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.

Office Leadership

Wendy Dodson Gallegos
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190 S. LaSalle Street
Chicago, IL 60603 US

190 S. LaSalle Street
Chicago, IL 60603 US


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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.

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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.

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Akin's investment management practice, comprising over 100 lawyers, is a recognized leader in the representation of large institutional and entrepreneurial fund sponsors and managers. We also serve as lead counsel to the world's premier investors and help them access opportunities in markets worldwide. Through its representation of a broad range of investment managers and institutional investors, Akin has unique insight on emerging trends across the private equity, credit and hedge fund industries. This knowledge and experience are particularly valuable to clients as convergence across asset classes continues to play out in the marketplace.

Learn about our investment management capabilities >

Akin's investment management practice, comprising over 100 lawyers, is a recognized leader in the representation of large institutional and entrepreneurial fund sponsors and managers. We also serve as lead counsel to the world's premier investors and help them access opportunities in markets worldwide. Through its representation of a broad range of investment managers and institutional investors, Akin has unique insight on emerging trends across the private equity, credit and hedge fund industries. This knowledge and experience are particularly valuable to clients as convergence across asset classes continues to play out in the marketplace.

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Energy & infrastructure is at our core. Akin has grown with the growth of the global energy economy. Our firm was founded in Texas more than 80 years ago, and since then have advised on transformational transactions across the world, including U.S., Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin America.

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Energy & infrastructure is at our core. Akin has grown with the growth of the global energy economy. Our firm was founded in Texas more than 80 years ago, and since then have advised on transformational transactions across the world, including U.S., Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Learn about our energy & infrastructure capabilities >