James A Deeken > Akin > Dallas, United States > Lawyer Profile
Akin Offices
2300 N. Field Street
Suite 1800
Dallas, TX 75201-2481
TEXAS
United States
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James A Deeken
Work Department
Partner; Investment Funds
Position
James Deeken represents private fund managers in fund formation activities and in investments into a wide range of investment funds and preferred equity structures. Jim’s experience with fund formation consists of representing managers in the formation of buyout funds, growth equity funds, oil and gas and other energy funds, loan origination funds, secondary funds, opportunistic funds, real estate funds, fund of funds and hedge funds, as well as special-purpose vehicles, “funds of one” and co-investment vehicles. He is a regular speaker about issues related to investment funds, private equity, venture capital and related regulatory issues before the Texas State Bar, the Dallas Bar Association, investment banking groups, law school associations and the business community at large.
To learn more about Mr. Deeken, please visit his full profile:
https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/james-a-deeken.html
Career
Prior to law school, Jim worked as a bond trader, an experience that aids his ability to relate to investment funds clients from a business standpoint.
Memberships
Vice chairman, Texas State Bar Association, Business Law Section Committee on Investment Funds; Member, Dallas Regional Chamber Leadership Dallas Alumni Group; Member, SMU Dedman School of Law Adjunct Facility, where he teaches “Private Funds: Regulation, Formation, Operating and Investing”
Education
JD, Vanderbilt University School of Law, 1999; BA, Vanderbilt University, 1993
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Government > Government relations
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- International trade and national security > Trade remedies and trade policy
Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Industry focus > Education
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Industry focus > Native American law
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Government > Government contracts
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- International trade and national security > CFIUS
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Finance > Project finance
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Industry focus > Sport
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism