Office Address
One Bryant Park
Bank of America Tower
New York, NY 10036-6745 US
Established in 1993, our New York office has a strong and vibrant presence with over 200 lawyers who represent investment funds, individuals, Fortune 500 companies and other global entities with their most important and sophisticated legal and business matters.
Our lawyers bring a diverse set of experiences to an equally diverse client base. The commonality across all representations is in our approach—to serve as trusted advisors to our clients and deliver results.
We act as outside general counsel to companies, lead complex transactions, advocate for our clients’ interests in financial restructurings, try high-profile litigations, form innovative investment vehicles and advise on an array of business matters.
Akin New York is home to many of the firm’s highly ranked and recognized lawyers and practices.
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Richard J. Rabin |
One Bryant Park
Bank of America Tower
New York, NY 10036-6745 US
One Bryant Park
Bank of America Tower
New York, NY 10036-6745 US
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Akin’s corporate team partners with many of the world’s most sophisticated investors, public and private companies, boards of directors and individuals.
In New York, we regularly counsel private equity and other investment funds and public and private companies on complex mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions and financings. We have extensive experience with public company M&A, buyouts and other private equity investments, distressed transactions, shareholder activist campaigns and company defenses, and fund restructuring transactions.
Our capital markets team advises on public and private debt offerings, including initial and secondary public offerings, shelf registrations and takedowns, offerings of investment-grade, high-yield and convertible debt, tender offers, exchange offers and consent solicitations, Rule 144A/Regulation S offerings, and traditional private placements. We also have a long track record of advising on transactions involving special-purpose acquisition companies (SPACs).
We advise on complex financings, including distressed and other special-situations investments, and acquisition financings. We work with many of the world’s most active credit investors on their financing activities, and we regularly perform risk arbitrage work to help them analyze those investments.
We act as outside general counsel and strategic advisor to public companies and their boards, advising on business strategy, complex governance issues and transactions. This includes advice to companies that have emerged from a bankruptcy or out-of-court restructuring, helping them to establish their governance programs, structure their financing and execute their business strategies.
Akin’s corporate team partners with many of the world’s most sophisticated investors, public and private companies, boards of directors and individuals.
In New York, we regularly counsel private equity and other investment funds and public and private companies on complex mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions and financings. We have extensive experience with public company M&A, buyouts and other private equity investments, distressed transactions, shareholder activist campaigns and company defenses, and fund restructuring transactions.
Our capital markets team advises on public and private debt offerings, including initial and secondary public offerings, shelf registrations and takedowns, offerings of investment-grade, high-yield and convertible debt, tender offers, exchange offers and consent solicitations, Rule 144A/Regulation S offerings, and traditional private placements. We also have a long track record of advising on transactions involving special-purpose acquisition companies (SPACs).
We advise on complex financings, including distressed and other special-situations investments, and acquisition financings. We work with many of the world’s most active credit investors on their financing activities, and we regularly perform risk arbitrage work to help them analyze those investments.
We act as outside general counsel and strategic advisor to public companies and their boards, advising on business strategy, complex governance issues and transactions. This includes advice to companies that have emerged from a bankruptcy or out-of-court restructuring, helping them to establish their governance programs, structure their financing and execute their business strategies.
Akin’s financial restructuring practice is widely recognized as a restructuring powerhouse. Our team is dedicated to distressed situations in the key global financial centers in the United States, Europe and Asia.
Companies, ad hoc groups, official and informal creditors’ committees and institutional investors seek our counsel for their most sensitive and complex restructuring, liability management and special situations matters, trusting our international and integrated platform to manage every facet and issue that may arise, no matter how many borders it may cross.
In New York, our team has been involved in some of the largest, most complex, groundbreaking restructurings in recent history, including FirstEnergy Solutions Corp., iHeartMedia Inc., Sears Holdings Corporation, Energy Future Intermediate Holdings Corp. (f/k/a TXU), Tribune, Nortel Networks, Washington Mutual and three former Icelandic Banks (Kaupthing, Landsbanki and Glitnir), among others.
Akin’s financial restructuring practice is widely recognized as a restructuring powerhouse. Our team is dedicated to distressed situations in the key global financial centers in the United States, Europe and Asia.
Companies, ad hoc groups, official and informal creditors’ committees and institutional investors seek our counsel for their most sensitive and complex restructuring, liability management and special situations matters, trusting our international and integrated platform to manage every facet and issue that may arise, no matter how many borders it may cross.
In New York, our team has been involved in some of the largest, most complex, groundbreaking restructurings in recent history, including FirstEnergy Solutions Corp., iHeartMedia Inc., Sears Holdings Corporation, Energy Future Intermediate Holdings Corp. (f/k/a TXU), Tribune, Nortel Networks, Washington Mutual and three former Icelandic Banks (Kaupthing, Landsbanki and Glitnir), among others.
When forming or investing in a private equity, credit or hedge fund, there is no substitute for industry knowledge, ingenuity, experience and global relationships.
Our investment management practice, comprising nearly 100 lawyers, is a recognized leader in the representation of large institutional and entrepreneurial fund sponsors and managers in the formation of hedge, private equity funds and hybrid funds.
We have served as lead counsel to some of the world’s premier investors and have helped them access opportunities in markets around the world. Through our representation of a broad range of investment managers and investors, we are able to attain proprietary insight on emerging trends in the private equity and hedge fund industries. This knowledge and experience is particularly valuable to clients as convergence across asset classes continues to play out in the marketplace.
When forming or investing in a private equity, credit or hedge fund, there is no substitute for industry knowledge, ingenuity, experience and global relationships.
Our investment management practice, comprising nearly 100 lawyers, is a recognized leader in the representation of large institutional and entrepreneurial fund sponsors and managers in the formation of hedge, private equity funds and hybrid funds.
We have served as lead counsel to some of the world’s premier investors and have helped them access opportunities in markets around the world. Through our representation of a broad range of investment managers and investors, we are able to attain proprietary insight on emerging trends in the private equity and hedge fund industries. This knowledge and experience is particularly valuable to clients as convergence across asset classes continues to play out in the marketplace.
Akin New York’s litigation practice is nationally recognized and includes a distinguished roster of former prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Our lawyers have extensive experience in all aspects of federal and state commercial litigation, as well as in matters of extraordinary complexity, including nationwide class actions, parallel civil and administrative proceedings, multidistrict litigation, arbitrations, criminal and regulatory proceedings, and matters involving complex procedural and discovery issues. We represent investment funds, Fortune 500 companies, creditors’ committees, institutional investors, debtors and individual clients in high-profile cases, including significant trials in various courts around the country.
Akin New York’s litigation practice is nationally recognized and includes a distinguished roster of former prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Our lawyers have extensive experience in all aspects of federal and state commercial litigation, as well as in matters of extraordinary complexity, including nationwide class actions, parallel civil and administrative proceedings, multidistrict litigation, arbitrations, criminal and regulatory proceedings, and matters involving complex procedural and discovery issues. We represent investment funds, Fortune 500 companies, creditors’ committees, institutional investors, debtors and individual clients in high-profile cases, including significant trials in various courts around the country.
Our international arbitration team in New York is part of our global arbitration practice. In close collaboration with other experienced international arbitration practitioners in our offices in London, Geneva, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Hong Kong, as well as across the United States, the New York office acts on complex, high-stakes matters in arbitral fora all over the world. We routinely represent financial institutions, private equity and credit funds, hedge funds and other clients in a variety of disputes.
Our international arbitration team in New York is part of our global arbitration practice. In close collaboration with other experienced international arbitration practitioners in our offices in London, Geneva, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Hong Kong, as well as across the United States, the New York office acts on complex, high-stakes matters in arbitral fora all over the world. We routinely represent financial institutions, private equity and credit funds, hedge funds and other clients in a variety of disputes.
The intellectual property (IP) lawyers in our New York office provide clients with strategic counsel in all aspects of IP litigation, particularly patent litigation, in federal courts throughout the country, before the International Trade Commission (ITC) and before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).
We regularly represent some of the world’s largest companies and have secured groundbreaking verdicts in high-stakes IP trials across a wide range of industries and technologies. We also handle complex transactional matters involving the licensing or transfer of IP rights, as well as counsel clients on the management of global IP portfolios.
The intellectual property (IP) lawyers in our New York office provide clients with strategic counsel in all aspects of IP litigation, particularly patent litigation, in federal courts throughout the country, before the International Trade Commission (ITC) and before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).
We regularly represent some of the world’s largest companies and have secured groundbreaking verdicts in high-stakes IP trials across a wide range of industries and technologies. We also handle complex transactional matters involving the licensing or transfer of IP rights, as well as counsel clients on the management of global IP portfolios.
Our New York labor & employment practice represents various of the leading hedge funds, private equity firms, banks, broker-dealers and other financial services firms, as well as senior executives, principals, portfolio managers and other senior personnel, in connection with their most complex and challenging matters, including matters posing significant financial, reputational and other risks.
We defend clients against claims of discrimination, harassment and retaliation, whistleblower claims (including under Dodd-Frank and Sarbanes Oxley), and various other statutory claims. We also handle compensation disputes, disputes regarding terminations, claims over severance and change-in-control payments, claims under non-competition provisions, non-solicitation provisions and other restrictive covenants, and claims alleging breach of the duty of loyalty, misappropriation of trade secrets and other business torts.
Our New York labor practice also plays a crucial role in the firm’s restructurings and M&A. We handle the labor and employment components on the firm’s most substantial and sensitive restructuring and M&A engagements, advising clients on the acquisition and structuring of labor, including pension issues, evaluation of workforces, negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and the transfer, hiring and firing of workers.
In addition, our lawyers have substantial experience representing sports leagues and teams, and handling high-profile arbitrations in connection therewith.
We also have successfully defended cases arising under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), including high-profile stock-drop class actions and complex claims of fiduciary breach, claims alleging prohibited transactions, claims alleging interference with statutory rights, claims seeking benefits on behalf of allegedly misclassified workers, and Department of Labor investigations and litigation, as well as claims under federal and state wage and hour laws.
Our New York labor & employment practice represents various of the leading hedge funds, private equity firms, banks, broker-dealers and other financial services firms, as well as senior executives, principals, portfolio managers and other senior personnel, in connection with their most complex and challenging matters, including matters posing significant financial, reputational and other risks.
We defend clients against claims of discrimination, harassment and retaliation, whistleblower claims (including under Dodd-Frank and Sarbanes Oxley), and various other statutory claims. We also handle compensation disputes, disputes regarding terminations, claims over severance and change-in-control payments, claims under non-competition provisions, non-solicitation provisions and other restrictive covenants, and claims alleging breach of the duty of loyalty, misappropriation of trade secrets and other business torts.
Our New York labor practice also plays a crucial role in the firm’s restructurings and M&A. We handle the labor and employment components on the firm’s most substantial and sensitive restructuring and M&A engagements, advising clients on the acquisition and structuring of labor, including pension issues, evaluation of workforces, negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and the transfer, hiring and firing of workers.
In addition, our lawyers have substantial experience representing sports leagues and teams, and handling high-profile arbitrations in connection therewith.
We also have successfully defended cases arising under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), including high-profile stock-drop class actions and complex claims of fiduciary breach, claims alleging prohibited transactions, claims alleging interference with statutory rights, claims seeking benefits on behalf of allegedly misclassified workers, and Department of Labor investigations and litigation, as well as claims under federal and state wage and hour laws.
Combining one of the most sophisticated finance teams in the market with our powerhouse investment management, tax and financial restructuring teams, our New York structured credit practice skillfully represents many of the market’s most active collateral managers, issuers, investors and other market participants in collateralized loan obligation (CLO) transactions, marketplace lending transactions and securitizations involving a range of conventional and non-traditional asset classes.
Our team has an extensive history of helping to structure many of the world’s leading credit, private equity, hedge and other investment vehicles, as well as deploy capital and restructure investments around the world.
Combining one of the most sophisticated finance teams in the market with our powerhouse investment management, tax and financial restructuring teams, our New York structured credit practice skillfully represents many of the market’s most active collateral managers, issuers, investors and other market participants in collateralized loan obligation (CLO) transactions, marketplace lending transactions and securitizations involving a range of conventional and non-traditional asset classes.
Our team has an extensive history of helping to structure many of the world’s leading credit, private equity, hedge and other investment vehicles, as well as deploy capital and restructure investments around the world.
Our tax team offers multidisciplinary services in order to ensure that no consideration is neglected in even the most complex transactions. It is our philosophy that this inclusive, multidisciplinary approach offers our clients superior service and protection. The tax practice provides corporate and private investment fund clients with advice in the areas of domestic and international taxation, structuring of inbound and outbound multijurisdictional M&As and complex multiparty international business transactions.
Our private client services practice provides customized legal and tax advice to help clients achieve their personal estate and tax planning goals. Benefits, compensation and employment are vital aspects of our globally recognized tax practice. We represent a variety of clients, including investment funds, business entities, financial institutions, individual executives and individual and corporate trustees of employee benefit plans, on a full range of executive compensation and employee benefits issues.
Our tax team offers multidisciplinary services in order to ensure that no consideration is neglected in even the most complex transactions. It is our philosophy that this inclusive, multidisciplinary approach offers our clients superior service and protection. The tax practice provides corporate and private investment fund clients with advice in the areas of domestic and international taxation, structuring of inbound and outbound multijurisdictional M&As and complex multiparty international business transactions.
Our private client services practice provides customized legal and tax advice to help clients achieve their personal estate and tax planning goals. Benefits, compensation and employment are vital aspects of our globally recognized tax practice. We represent a variety of clients, including investment funds, business entities, financial institutions, individual executives and individual and corporate trustees of employee benefit plans, on a full range of executive compensation and employee benefits issues.
New York Services & Sectors
Akin’s corporate team partners with many of the world’s most sophisticated investors, public and private companies, boards of directors and individuals.
In New York, we regularly counsel private equity and other investment funds and public and private companies on complex mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions and financings. We have extensive experience with public company M&A, buyouts and other private equity investments, distressed transactions, shareholder activist campaigns and company defenses, and fund restructuring transactions.
Our capital markets team advises on public and private debt offerings, including initial and secondary public offerings, shelf registrations and takedowns, offerings of investment-grade, high-yield and convertible debt, tender offers, exchange offers and consent solicitations, Rule 144A/Regulation S offerings, and traditional private placements. We also have a long track record of advising on transactions involving special-purpose acquisition companies (SPACs).
We advise on complex financings, including distressed and other special-situations investments, and acquisition financings. We work with many of the world’s most active credit investors on their financing activities, and we regularly perform risk arbitrage work to help them analyze those investments.
We act as outside general counsel and strategic advisor to public companies and their boards, advising on business strategy, complex governance issues and transactions. This includes advice to companies that have emerged from a bankruptcy or out-of-court restructuring, helping them to establish their governance programs, structure their financing and execute their business strategies.