Courtney S. York > Akin > Dallas, United States > Lawyer Profile
Akin Offices
2300 N. Field Street
Suite 1800
Dallas, TX 75201-2481
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Courtney S. York
Work Department
Partner; Corporate & Finance
Position
Courtney York has two decades of experience advising clients in the technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) industries on a broad range of corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity securities investments and offerings, joint ventures, spinoffs, securities compliance and corporate governance, as well as development, licensing and production agreements and other complex commercial transactions involving technology and content.
Courtney’s practice focuses on representing public and private companies in acquisitions, divestitures and similar transactions in the TMT space. She also regularly advises issuers, private equity funds, venture capital funds, corporate venturers, family offices and entrepreneurs in early and growth stage investment transactions.
Her experience includes counseling clients in the areas of software/SaaS, hardware, content, VR/extended reality, IoT/connected devices, big data, artificial intelligence, blockchain/digital assets, FinTech and InsurTech in connection with various transactional matters.
To learn more about Courtney, please visit her full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/courtney-s-york.html.
Education
J.D., University of Texas School of Law, with honors, 2001 (Texas Law Review; Order of the Coif); B.A., University of Texas at Austin, with highest honors, 1998
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