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Richard J. Rabin
Work Department
Partner; Labor & Employment
Position
The head of Akin’s New York labor & employment practice, Rich Rabin advises clients on their most complex and sensitive employment matters. He litigates employment-related disputes in federal and state courts, as well as before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the American Arbitration Association (AAA), JAMS and the Major League Baseball Arbitration Panel.
Rich regularly represents clients in the financial services industry, including hedge fund and private equity firms, in connection with their labor and employment matters. He also represents executives, directors, portfolio managers and other senior personnel in connection with employment and partnership-related disputes.
Rich also regularly speaks and writes on litigation and employment issues and has provided legal analyses in television and radio interviews, as well as in print media.
To learn more about Rich, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/richard-j-rabin.html
Education
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, 1993
B.A., University of Michigan, magna cum laude, 1990
Leisure
As editor of Akin’s “Hedge Up” series, Rich regularly publishes on labor and employment issues confronting clients in the alternative asset management industry. He also has contributed articles to the Hedge Fund Law Report and other publications.
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