Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

06/24/2022 | Press release | Archived content

by Fadi G. Samman, Timothy Jonas Clark, Krishna R. Skandakumar

Key Experience

  • Practice focuses on the domestic and international private investment funds industry.
  • Particular emphasis on fund formation, including transformative secondary funds.

Practice

Fadi Samman represents domestic and international fund sponsors in connection with organizing, structuring and operating private investment funds, including private equity funds, real estate funds, venture capital funds, fund of funds, secondary funds and hedge funds. He advises institutional investors in connection with their investments in private investment funds, including acquiring and selling those investments on the secondary market.

Fadi also represents his investment fund clients in connection with their investment activity, including leveraged buyouts, joint ventures and minority equity investment transactions. In particular, he has represented private equity and venture capital funds in connection with numerous preferred stock investments in technology and emerging growth companies from their initial start-up phase through multiple rounds of financing, strategic growth and exit opportunities.

Recognition

  • Chambers Global, Investment Funds: Private Equity: Fund Formation, 2022.
  • Chambers USA, Investment Funds: Private Equity: Fund Formation (2019-2021).
  • Recommended by The Legal 500 US in Investment Fund Formation and Management: Alternative/Hedge Funds (2016-2017) and Private Equity Funds (2015-2021).
  • Recognized by Super Lawyers as one of its "Rising Stars" (2013-2014).