Akin

Partner, Investment Management

Arina Lekhel’s practice focuses on the formation of private investment funds and their management, and representing these clients on an ongoing basis, including alternative investment vehicle structuring and restructuring, compliance issues and secondary transactions. Arina also represents institutional investors investing in private funds. She has significant experience with domestic and offshore closed-ended funds, hedge funds and hybrid funds pursuing a variety of investment strategies, including aviation, credit, distressed, event-driven, funds of funds, litigation finance, life settlements, macro, and real estate. Arina regularly advises management companies in connection with internal structuring issues, such as joint venture arrangements, mergers, spin-offs, profit sharing and vesting plans, seeding transactions and risk retention vehicles.

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Russian, French

J.D., Vanderbilt University School of Law, 1999; B.A., University of Arizona, summa cum laude, 1996