Office Address
2300 N. Field Street
Suite 1800
Dallas, TX 75201-2481 US
In 1945, our founders Richard A. Gump and Ambassador Robert S. Strauss started the firm in Dallas. They chose Dallas because it was rapidly evolving into a major business center with a central location and the entrepreneurial environment necessary to build a cutting-edge, forward-looking law firm.
Our Dallas office reflects Akin’s strong roots in, and firm commitment to, the Lone Star State. Thanks to the visionary leadership of our founders and others who came after, we’ve grown Akin into a 900-lawyer global firm positioned at the intersection of commerce, policy and the law. Our Dallas office thrives today with the same spirit, foresight and dedication to delivering the best service possible to our clients locally and worldwide.
The Texas Lawbook included Akin among a group of “elite” firms in Texas whose names denote “prestige, strength, distinction and even superiority” with the “smartest, most successful” lawyers in the Lone Star State, with clients that seek it out for help with “massive problems or bet-the-company matters.”
Law360 also recognized Akin as one of five Texas Powerhouse firms “that showed prowess in delivering for their clients across a wide range of practice groups” and “working on deals both global in scale and those that have a major impact at home in Texas.”
Akin's Dallas office is home to many of the firm’s key practices, including mergers and acquisitions (M&A), finance, corporate and securities, energy, investment management, private equity, litigation, data privacy, financial restructuring, real estate, tax and international trade.
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As trusted corporate advisors and powerhouse dealmakers, Akin Dallas helps clients achieve their strategic goals and has consistently been listed as a leader in the North Texas legal market. Our Dallas-based team recently advised 7-Eleven Inc. in their agreement to acquire approximately 3,900 Speedway stores located in 35 states, for $21 billion in cash, which is the largest acquisition in sector history.
Our experienced corporate lawyers regularly counsel public and private companies, private equity funds and their portfolio companies, hedge funds, family offices and financial advisors. Our corporate practice focuses on M&A, capital markets, corporate governance, finance and private equity. We frequently collaborate with our financial restructuring lawyers on chapter 11 and out-of-court restructurings, as well as on a variety of distressed transactions. By combining our multidisciplinary approach and the resources of a full-service global law firm, we support our clients—wherever and whenever they do business—effectively and efficiently.
With a focus on the energy industry, our Dallas-based corporate lawyers have advised on some of the largest and most cutting-edge energy transactions and projects around the world. Our energy practice includes the representation of publicly traded and privately held companies as well as financial institutions, private equity funds, sovereign governments and national energy companies in their various roles as developers, issuers, underwriters, lenders and borrowers.
We do a wide variety of public and private equity and debt offerings and lending transactions; mergers, acquisitions and divestitures; and structuring and implementation of direct investments across global markets. Our energy experience spans the value chain, including oil and gas, petrochemicals, liquefied natural gas, coal, utilities and renewables.
As trusted corporate advisors and powerhouse dealmakers, Akin Dallas helps clients achieve their strategic goals and has consistently been listed as a leader in the North Texas legal market. Our Dallas-based team recently advised 7-Eleven Inc. in their agreement to acquire approximately 3,900 Speedway stores located in 35 states, for $21 billion in cash, which is the largest acquisition in sector history.
Our experienced corporate lawyers regularly counsel public and private companies, private equity funds and their portfolio companies, hedge funds, family offices and financial advisors. Our corporate practice focuses on M&A, capital markets, corporate governance, finance and private equity. We frequently collaborate with our financial restructuring lawyers on chapter 11 and out-of-court restructurings, as well as on a variety of distressed transactions. By combining our multidisciplinary approach and the resources of a full-service global law firm, we support our clients—wherever and whenever they do business—effectively and efficiently.
With a focus on the energy industry, our Dallas-based corporate lawyers have advised on some of the largest and most cutting-edge energy transactions and projects around the world. Our energy practice includes the representation of publicly traded and privately held companies as well as financial institutions, private equity funds, sovereign governments and national energy companies in their various roles as developers, issuers, underwriters, lenders and borrowers.
We do a wide variety of public and private equity and debt offerings and lending transactions; mergers, acquisitions and divestitures; and structuring and implementation of direct investments across global markets. Our energy experience spans the value chain, including oil and gas, petrochemicals, liquefied natural gas, coal, utilities and renewables.
Our Dallas investment management practice serves a global client base. We have a client-focused approach centered on understanding a client’s needs, the unique circumstances of their business and how we can create innovative solutions.
We represent a wide range of open-end and closed-end private investment funds and other collective investment vehicles. Our Dallas office has a particular depth of experience in credit, real estate, private equity and hedge funds for many of the largest and most prominent funds in the world. Our experience representing both institutional fund managers and institutional investors aids our ability to “bridge the gap” accretively in negotiations between fund managers and large investors.
In addition to representing established institutional clients, our Dallas funds group has a long history of representing new and emerging managers, allowing us gather market knowledge and provide counsel across multiple market segments.
Our globally integrated team also advises on regulatory and compliance issues throughout a fund’s life cycle, powered by our international regulatory practice and our established Dallas regulatory resources.
Our Dallas investment management practice serves a global client base. We have a client-focused approach centered on understanding a client’s needs, the unique circumstances of their business and how we can create innovative solutions.
We represent a wide range of open-end and closed-end private investment funds and other collective investment vehicles. Our Dallas office has a particular depth of experience in credit, real estate, private equity and hedge funds for many of the largest and most prominent funds in the world. Our experience representing both institutional fund managers and institutional investors aids our ability to “bridge the gap” accretively in negotiations between fund managers and large investors.
In addition to representing established institutional clients, our Dallas funds group has a long history of representing new and emerging managers, allowing us gather market knowledge and provide counsel across multiple market segments.
Our globally integrated team also advises on regulatory and compliance issues throughout a fund’s life cycle, powered by our international regulatory practice and our established Dallas regulatory resources.
The American Lawyer has named Akin as a finalist for Texas Litigation Department of the Year, recognizing firms that “are at the core of industry-changing matters, leading the charge on their clients’ most important cases and operating at a level that sets them apart from their peers” and “show prowess now and demonstrate a staying power that will keep clients coming back.”
Akin Dallas has an experienced and multifaceted litigation practice defending or bringing claims on behalf of our clients. We regularly handle litigation in areas such as energy, accounting, aerospace and defense, investment funds, financial, technology, retail and transportation. In addition, our Dallas-based litigators have developed extensive experience in handling internal corporate investigations and the securities litigation that often follows.
The American Lawyer has named Akin as a finalist for Texas Litigation Department of the Year, recognizing firms that “are at the core of industry-changing matters, leading the charge on their clients’ most important cases and operating at a level that sets them apart from their peers” and “show prowess now and demonstrate a staying power that will keep clients coming back.”
Akin Dallas has an experienced and multifaceted litigation practice defending or bringing claims on behalf of our clients. We regularly handle litigation in areas such as energy, accounting, aerospace and defense, investment funds, financial, technology, retail and transportation. In addition, our Dallas-based litigators have developed extensive experience in handling internal corporate investigations and the securities litigation that often follows.
Co-led by a Dallas-based partner, Akin’s cybersecurity, privacy and data protection practice understands the unique needs of businesses and has extensive experience helping clients navigate the myriad existing and emerging regulatory requirements, including assisting clients with data breach preparedness and response efforts, and related investigations and litigation.
Our practice offers a full array of services, including developing compliance program, providing day-to-day compliance counseling, providing legislative and regulatory advocacy services, assisting with data breach investigations and responses, handling regulatory investigations, and litigating cybersecurity, privacy and data protection matters in federal and state courts at both the trial and appellate levels.
Learn about our cybersecurity, privacy & data protection capabilities >
Co-led by a Dallas-based partner, Akin’s cybersecurity, privacy and data protection practice understands the unique needs of businesses and has extensive experience helping clients navigate the myriad existing and emerging regulatory requirements, including assisting clients with data breach preparedness and response efforts, and related investigations and litigation.
Our practice offers a full array of services, including developing compliance program, providing day-to-day compliance counseling, providing legislative and regulatory advocacy services, assisting with data breach investigations and responses, handling regulatory investigations, and litigating cybersecurity, privacy and data protection matters in federal and state courts at both the trial and appellate levels.
Learn about our cybersecurity, privacy & data protection capabilities >
Akin’s financial restructuring practice has been praised in Chambers USA as a go-to firm for restructuring work in Texas. Our team handles large, complex restructuring cases and out-of-court corporate reorganizations for public and private companies, as well as for alternative investment funds.
Our lawyers routinely represent various constituencies in restructurings and business rehabilitations, including official committees and informal groups of creditors, debtors (financially distressed companies), secured lender groups, administrators, liquidators, receivers, trustees and examiners, and purchasers and sellers of debt or assets of financially distressed companies.
Our Dallas litigators appear frequently in bankruptcy court on behalf of our financial restructuring clients. Our clients are often creditors in these cases, including official creditors’ committees, ad hoc committees and individual creditors, such as hedge funds and institutional investors. We also represent in a full range of chapter 11 proceedings and other restructuring related issues for debtors, bondholders and ad hoc groups.
Akin’s financial restructuring practice has been praised in Chambers USA as a go-to firm for restructuring work in Texas. Our team handles large, complex restructuring cases and out-of-court corporate reorganizations for public and private companies, as well as for alternative investment funds.
Our lawyers routinely represent various constituencies in restructurings and business rehabilitations, including official committees and informal groups of creditors, debtors (financially distressed companies), secured lender groups, administrators, liquidators, receivers, trustees and examiners, and purchasers and sellers of debt or assets of financially distressed companies.
Our Dallas litigators appear frequently in bankruptcy court on behalf of our financial restructuring clients. Our clients are often creditors in these cases, including official creditors’ committees, ad hoc committees and individual creditors, such as hedge funds and institutional investors. We also represent in a full range of chapter 11 proceedings and other restructuring related issues for debtors, bondholders and ad hoc groups.
Our Dallas real estate and finance lawyers represent major public and private companies, equity and hedge funds, commercial and industrial developers, real estate investment trusts (REITs), real estate mortgage investment conduits (REMICs), commercial and investment banks, insurance companies, pension funds and other institutional lenders and investors, mortgage servicers, domestic and offshore investors, hotels, restaurants, hospitals and governments, in a wide range of both traditional and innovative real-estate related matters.
Akin Dallas has an experienced real estate financial services team serving the commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) industry and lending community in documenting CMBS assumptions and modifications, processing defeasances, working out troubled CMBS loans, handling CMBS borrower bankruptcies and loan foreclosures, representing CMBS servicers (master, special and primary) and representing purchasers or sellers in the acquisition and/or disposition of master and/or primary servicing rights.
Our Dallas real estate and finance lawyers represent major public and private companies, equity and hedge funds, commercial and industrial developers, real estate investment trusts (REITs), real estate mortgage investment conduits (REMICs), commercial and investment banks, insurance companies, pension funds and other institutional lenders and investors, mortgage servicers, domestic and offshore investors, hotels, restaurants, hospitals and governments, in a wide range of both traditional and innovative real-estate related matters.
Akin Dallas has an experienced real estate financial services team serving the commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) industry and lending community in documenting CMBS assumptions and modifications, processing defeasances, working out troubled CMBS loans, handling CMBS borrower bankruptcies and loan foreclosures, representing CMBS servicers (master, special and primary) and representing purchasers or sellers in the acquisition and/or disposition of master and/or primary servicing rights.
Our Dallas tax practice is a multifaceted transactional tax practice that collaborates closely with Akin’s corporate, real estate, energy and investment funds practices in providing U.S. federal income tax planning, structuring and guidance for mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint venture (JV) transactions, debt and equity offerings, specialized capital structure planning and financial restructuring transactions, as well as in the formation and operation of corporations, MLPs, partnerships and limited liability companies, and represents clients across a diverse array of industries.
Our Dallas tax practice is a multifaceted transactional tax practice that collaborates closely with Akin’s corporate, real estate, energy and investment funds practices in providing U.S. federal income tax planning, structuring and guidance for mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint venture (JV) transactions, debt and equity offerings, specialized capital structure planning and financial restructuring transactions, as well as in the formation and operation of corporations, MLPs, partnerships and limited liability companies, and represents clients across a diverse array of industries.
In addition to our commitment to deliver extraordinary client service, Akin Dallas’ commitment to pro bono and community outreach continues as a cornerstone of the firm. Lawyers serve in leadership positions on the boards of charitable and civic organizations and provide pro bono legal services through organizations such as Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program, Human Rights Initiative of North Texas, Advocates for Community Transformation (ACT), Buried Alive Project, Catholic Charities, Genesis Women’s Shelter & Support, Northwest Texas Legal Aid, Texas Appleseed, and Texas Fair Defense Project.
Akin Dallas is home to the firmwide pro bono leader and has been recognized for numerous awards, including the Texas Appleseed Award, the W. Frank Newton Award presented by the State Bar of Texas and the Silver Award presented by the Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program for its pro bono legal services.
In addition to our commitment to deliver extraordinary client service, Akin Dallas’ commitment to pro bono and community outreach continues as a cornerstone of the firm. Lawyers serve in leadership positions on the boards of charitable and civic organizations and provide pro bono legal services through organizations such as Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program, Human Rights Initiative of North Texas, Advocates for Community Transformation (ACT), Buried Alive Project, Catholic Charities, Genesis Women’s Shelter & Support, Northwest Texas Legal Aid, Texas Appleseed, and Texas Fair Defense Project.
Akin Dallas is home to the firmwide pro bono leader and has been recognized for numerous awards, including the Texas Appleseed Award, the W. Frank Newton Award presented by the State Bar of Texas and the Silver Award presented by the Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program for its pro bono legal services.