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(New York and Washington, D.C.) – Akin announced today that Ron Erlichman and Nick Atwood have joined the firm’s market-leading energy & infrastructure practice as partners in the firm’s New York and Washington, D.C. offices, respectively. Joining from Linklaters, where Erlichman served as co-head of the firm’s energy & infrastructure practice in the Americas, Erlichman and Atwood further strengthen Akin’s premier energy & infrastructure platform advising clients on their most in-demand projects, including traditional and renewable power generation, battery storage, data centers, carbon capture, synthetic fuels and other energy transition projects as well as mining and other infrastructure transactions. Erlichman and Atwood focus their practice on the development, financing, acquisition and sale of energy & infrastructure projects, including conventional and renewable electrical power, energy transition projects, data centers, battery storage, hydrogen, synthetic fuels, carbon capture, utilization & storage (CCUS), transmission facilities, chemical and petrochemical facilities, terminals, and transportation projects. They advise sponsors, developers, lenders, private capital investors, and other project participants with respect to all phases of a project’s life cycle. “With rapidly growing power needs driven by AI, data centers and electrification, our energy & infrastructure practice continues to see increasing client demand across a variety of transactions,” said Akin co-chair Abid Qureshi. “Ron and Nick’s experience will be a great benefit to our clients as they are developing and financing the next generation of the energy economy.” “Ron and Nick are versatile energy & infrastructure dealmakers who are widely respected in the industry and well known to our team,” added corporate practice co-head Zachary Wittenberg.  “Their experience across a wide range of cutting-edge energy projects and technologies is a terrific complement and will drive continued growth across our integrated energy offering.” “I have long respected the strength and breadth of Akin’s energy platform and been impressed by its growth,” said Erlichman on his move to the firm. “Nick and I are excited to work with our new colleagues, many of whom we have known and worked with professionally for years.” Erlichman and Atwood are the latest additions to the firm’s comprehensive energy & infrastructure platform, ranked by Chambers USA in Energy: Oil & Gas, Energy Transition and Projects: Renewables & Alternative Energy, with Akin having recently added energy transactions partners Charlie Ofner and Trent Bridges, capital markets partner Bryan Flannery and private equity partner Andrew Lehman in Houston, tax credits partner Mary Alexander in Washington, D.C., energy partner Rob Butler in London and projects & energy transition partners Chadron Edwards in New York and April Kim in California. About Akin’s Energy & Infrastructure Practice Akin is a leading advisor to companies and capital providers across the energy value chain. Our global, interdisciplinary team has market-leading experience across upstream, midstream, downstream, energy services and the spectrum of energy transition projects, including wind, solar, geothermal, hydroelectric, bioenergy, carbon capture, renewable natural gas, landfill gas, hydrogen, ammonia and sustainable aviation fuel. We serve as trusted counsel to public and private energy companies, private equity, credit, infrastructure and other investors, and management teams worldwide. We help clients develop, finance, construct, operate, buy and sell energy & infrastructure projects and companies throughout the world. Akin is a leading international law firm with more than 900 lawyers in offices throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. *Nick Atwood is licensed in New York only; not admitted in the District of Columbia

(New York) – Akin announced today that Heather Waters Borthwick has joined the firm’s capital solutions team as a private credit partner in New York. Borthwick brings extensive experience in the performing private credit market, further strengthening Akin’s one-stop platform for private capital investors pursuing opportunities across the capital structure. Borthwick joins Akin from DLA Piper, with a practice focused on direct lending and other transactions on the private credit spectrum. She advises leading credit funds and other asset managers on a wide range of financing transactions, including direct lending and cross-border private credit transactions, acquisition financings, refinancings, recapitalizations and hybrid capital deals. “The continued expansion of the private credit market has driven significant demand for our capital solutions team, which works with many of the market’s most active credit investors on their most complex financings,” said Akin co-chair Abid Qureshi. “Heather is exceptionally well-positioned to guide clients on a wide range of private credit transactions across the capital structure. We are thrilled to welcome her to the firm.” “Heather is a leading private credit lawyer and energetic and skilled dealmaker who we know through shared client relationships and whose arrival enhances our performing credit coverage at a pivotal moment in the market,” said Dan Fisher, co-leader of Akin’s global capital solutions team. “Her strong relationships across the credit world, combined with her market insight, will be a tremendous asset to the clients, the practice and the team.” “I have long admired Akin’s capital solutions team, which is one of the most established and operates at the top of the private credit market,” said Borthwick. “I look forward to working with the firm’s distinguished roster of private credit and asset manager clients, and my clients will benefit from Akin’s platform, which is designed to service the needs of the market’s most sophisticated credit investors.” Borthwick is the latest addition to the firm’s capital solutions platform, following the additions of  Sarah Milam in New York; Daniel Wayte and Kevin Gilroy in London and Payson Lyman in Boston. About Akin’s Capital Solutions Team Akin’s capital solutions group advises private capital investors pursuing opportunities across the capital structure in all market cycles. As the lines increasingly blur across investment strategies, investors are seeking creative and integrated counsel to structure cutting-edge investment solutions involving a mix of debt, equity and hybrid capital. Our team helps clients structure returns with risk, managing downside protections while preserving upside optionality. About Akin’s Private Credit Practice Akin works with the most active private credit investors in the market—including half of Private Debt Investor’s Top 100 globally—structuring novel debt & equity investments. As the market for direct lending has exploded in size and sophistication, our global private credit team has helped many of the most sophisticated credit investors, from the ground up, to build their position in this market. We structure novel investments in companies seeking flexible financing and in unconventional and opportunistic financings. These include investments in companies with limited access to syndicated bank finance markets, middle-market and large-cap direct lending transactions to fund acquisitions or working capital needs and funding growth capital transactions for companies in emerging sectors. Akin is a leading international law firm with more than 900 lawyers in offices throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.