Akin is a global law firm with more than 900 lawyers and advisors. With 19 offices worldwide, they are renowned for numerous market-leading practices with strengths in complex transactions and restructurings, high-stakes litigation, and public policy and regulatory matters and their unyielding pro bono commitment. Akin's London office is their third largest office and the main hub for the firm's international offices, practicing at the top of its markets.
Driven by their forward-thinking leadership, they have built a strong culture of innovation and collaboration as well as a talented and diverse workforce. Akin has a long-standing commitment to opportunity and inclusion and believe that the various perspectives and experiences of their lawyers and professionals enable them to identify creative solutions for their clients and enrich all aspects of their firm and communities. Their focus on building an inclusive work environment is present at every level. |
Our London Financial Restructuring practice is expanding and seeking a talented lawyer up to 1-year PQE to join the team. Candidates must have a minimum of six months experience sitting within a strong corporate restructuring practice and been exposed to commercially minded financial institution clients such as hedge funds, bondholders, institutional lenders, secondary market investors and creditor committees. Superior communication skills and excellent academic credentials are essential.
Our associates are exposed to to high quality, substantive work and given significant responsibility and early exposure to clients, with the support of a collaborative, high-performing team. The team structure is 7 partners, 1 senior counsel, 4 counsel, 9 associates, 1 paralegal and 2 trainees. |
Our European financial restructuring practice is an integral part of a wider global financial restructuring practice operating across London, Hong Kong, New York, Dallas and Washington, D.C. We have an excellent reputation in the market and are consistently ranked as a top-tier firm by Chambers, The Legal 500 and other legal directories.
We have significant experience representing creditors on large-scale and complex restructurings, recapitalizations and financings for distressed companies. Our well-established and experienced lawyers are highly adept at handling complex restructurings and structured finance arrangements, and have advised on some of the most significant cross-border restructurings in the market, including recent work on Agrokor, Metrocentre, Nordic Aviation Capital, Nostrum, Premier Oil, Swissport, Travelex and Valaris.
Our enviable portfolio of clients includes many of the world’s leading financial institutions, specialist investment funds, debt investors, insurance companies, pension funds, hedge funds and more. We advise them on their stressed and distressed investments in maximizing the value of those investments, and we are particularly effective at harmonizing divergent interests and building consensus.
Clients that turn to us for advice come from a wide range of sectors, including traditional and renewable energy, financial services, private equity, insurance, technology, telecommunications, business services and outsourcing, transportation, shipping, maritime and manufacturing. |
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld's employment practices actively promote equal opportunities throughout the Firm and its employees are selected and recruited by merit in relation to the job to be performed, without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief.
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