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Akin Offices
ONE BRYANT PARK
NEW YORK, NY 10036
NEW YORK
United States
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Mr Uri Itkin
Work Department
Partner; Disputes & Investigations
Position
Complex commercial litigation, investment funds litigation, real estate litigation, securities litigation
Career
Uri is a partner in Akin’s investment funds litigation practice. He has extensive experience handling matters involving structured finance, complex financial products, distressed corporate debt and real estate transactions.
Uri is a trial lawyer and adviser. He represents plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal courts, arbitrations, bankruptcies and trust instruction proceedings across the country. His clients include leading hedge funds, private equity firms, real estate developers and investors, investment banks, corporations and family offices.
The National Law Journal named Uri among its Plaintiffs’ Lawyers Trailblazers in 2022. He is included in Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers in America 2020. Law360 named Uri a 2018 Rising Star in Asset Management, the only litigator recognized nationwide. He has been recognized as a Next Generation Lawyer by The Legal 500 and a Rising Star by both Super Lawyers and Legal Media Group Expert Guides, and included on Benchmark Litigation’s 40 and Under Hot List. Uri was a member of Law360’s Banking Editorial Advisory Board in 2021. He is fluent in Russian.
To learn more about Uri, please visit his profile here: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/uri-a-itkin.html.
Languages
Russian
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Government > Government relations
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- International Trade > 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
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Industry focus > Native American law
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Government > Government contracts
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- International Trade > CFIUS
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Industry focus > Sport
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization