Akin

At Akin, practitioners are go-to contacts for emerging market funds, but the group has core expertise in real estate, venture capital, energy and credit funds. Barbara Niederkofler in New York, who ‘excels across all aspects of structuring complex fund products and advising on compliance matters’ heads up the team, and is well supported by Blayne Grady in Washington DC whose practice is geared towards credit funds, with particular nous in credit fund structuring. New York-based Dennis P. Pereira, described as ’knowledgeable, very pragmatic, and an excellent communicator’ is a stand out practitioner in the team, and regularly advises Apollo Global Management. Wendy Dodson Gallegos joined the team in May 2025.