Dan Fisher Bio

Founder and co-leader of Akin’s integrated capital solutions practice. Represents asset managers and their portfolio companies in complex transactions typically arising from credit and hybrid investments. Market-leading experience in complex special situations, liability management and out-of-court restructurings, distressed M&A, the transactional aspects of in-court restructurings, crisis management and post-reorganized corporate governance and sale transactions. The world’s most sophisticated asset managers call upon Dan Fisher to structure, execute and protect their highly complex credit, hybrid and other capital solutions investments. Dan, the founder and co-leader of Akin’s market-leading capital solutions team and a member of the firm’s Management Committee, has decades of experience counseling credit-heritage investors on evolving market dynamics and opportunities across sectors, geographies, deal structures and economic cycles. He began his career as a public M&A lawyer and brings the judgement, rigor, problem solving and deal leadership skills inherent in that practice to bear in every transaction he leads. Dan frequently speaks and is quoted on developments in liability management, distressed transactions and credit market dynamics, including at industry conferences, and is often asked to discuss the latest market developments at his clients’ limited partner/investor meetings and to interact with LPs and allocators.