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Akin Offices
ONE BRYANT PARK
NEW YORK, NY 10036
NEW YORK
United States
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Dennis P. Pereira
Work Department
Partner, Investment Management
Position
Dennis Pereira’s practice focuses on the domestic and international fund industry. He represents fund sponsors in the formation, structuring and operation of private investment funds, including private equity and hedge funds that employ groundbreaking investment strategies. Dennis handles funds matters involving fund formation, capital-raising activities, ongoing operational activities, fund investment, and carried interest programs.
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Memberships
Committee Member, Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice
Education
J.D., University of Connecticut School of Law, with honors, 2007; B.A., Bates College, 2001
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
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.
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)