Ranesh Ramanathan Bio

Ranesh is the leader of Akin’s globally integrated capital solutions team. With a global practice and platform, Ranesh provides bespoke capital solutions to a broad array of clients. He helps companies raise capital and investors deploy capital in complex situations across debt & equity, hybrid and structured solutions, joint ventures, rollups and spinouts. Ranesh has a particular focus on creative investment structures tailored to private capital investors and public and private companies. He helps clients to find the right mix of debt, equity or hybrid solutions. Drawing on his deep and diverse experience across the full spectrum of issues facing private capital investors, Ranesh represents some of the world’s largest global asset managers on a wide variety of matters, as well as advising private equity firms and their portfolio companies in a range of traditional large cap and middle-market acquisition and financing transactions. Ranesh has extensive experience negotiating, structuring and managing complex transactions globally—across the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia—including acquiring diverse multijurisdictional portfolios of assets, extracting entire business units from distressed sellers and structuring other multinational, cross-border transactions and deals. In addition to his work across the investment spectrum, Ranesh has managed the legal aspects of investments in publicly traded and pre-IPO companies, and has worked with a variety of fund types, including closed-ended, open-ended and managed accounts in a wide variety of strategies. Ranesh returned to private practice in 2018 after nearly 15 years in in-house legal roles with Bain Capital and Citigroup. Ranesh was a managing director at Bain Capital and general counsel to Bain Capital’s credit and public markets businesses.