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Ranesh Ramanathan
Work Department
Partner, Banking & Finance
Position
Ranesh is co-leader of the special situations & private credit practice. He has deep and diverse experience advising global asset managers on a wide variety of matters, as well as advising private equity firms and their portfolio companies in a range of traditional large-cap and middle-market acquisition and financing transactions. He has experience negotiating, structuring and managing complex transactions globally—across the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia—including acquiring diverse multijurisdictional portfolios of assets and extracting entire business units from distressed sellers.
Ranesh was the lead attorney on several deals for Bain Capital, including a $1 billion senior unsecured notes offering issued by GGAM Finance Ltd, a subsidiary of Griffin Global Asset Management Holdings, Ltd and the investment it co-led with Pollen Street Capital in the £1.2 billion merger between The Markerstudy Group and Atlanta Group.
To learn more about Ranesh, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/ranesh-ramanathan
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Finance > Commercial lending > Advice to direct lenders/private credit
Often advising investment funds, private credit, and private equity funds, Akin is knowledgeable of fund financing transactions, NAV facilities, as well as secured and unsecured credit facilities. Jaisohn Im oversees the practice from New York and is a strong choice for private credit funds on direct lending transactions, liability management transactions, and restructuring matters. Inn is also noted for his experience in stressed and distressed debt investments, while Scott Colton handles finance transactions and credit agreements. He is also experienced in first-lien loans, second-lien loans, and unitranche facilities. Bill Brady is a strong choice for credit investors and direct lenders and is often engaged in debt restructuring, mezzanine debt, and unitranche facilities. New York-based Scott Colton and Ranesh Ramanathan are also noted as other key team members.
Lawyer Rankings
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
- Industry focus > Native American law
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Government > Government contracts
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- 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
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- 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
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Finance > Commercial lending > Advice to direct lenders/private credit
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Industry focus > Sport
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)