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Arina Lekhel

Arina Lekhel’s practice focuses on the formation of private investment funds and their management, and representing these clients on an ongoing basis, including alternative investment vehicle structuring and restructuring, compliance issues and secondary transactions. Arina also represents institutional investors investing in private funds. She has significant experience with domestic and offshore closed-ended funds, hedge funds and hybrid funds pursuing a variety of investment strategies, including aviation, credit, distressed, event-driven, funds of funds, litigation finance, life settlements, macro, and real estate. Arina regularly advises management companies in connection with internal structuring issues, such as joint venture arrangements, mergers, spin-offs, profit sharing and vesting plans, seeding transactions and risk retention vehicles. To learn more about Arina, please visit her full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/arina-lekhel.html · Dechert

United StatesInvestment Fund Formation, Investment Fund ManagementRussian, French

About

Arina Lekhel’s practice focuses on the formation of private investment funds and their management, and representing these clients on an ongoing basis, including alternative investment vehicle structuring and restructuring, compliance issues and secondary transactions. She also represents institutional investors investing in private funds and has significant experience with domestic and offshore closed-ended funds, hedge funds and hybrid funds pursuing a variety of investment strategies, including aviation, credit, distressed, event-driven, funds of funds, litigation finance, life settlements, macro, and real estate. She regularly advises management companies in connection with internal structuring issues, such as joint venture arrangements, mergers, spin-offs, profit sharing and vesting plans, seeding transactions and risk retention vehicles.

Practice areas

Investment Fund FormationInvestment Fund ManagementAlternative Investment Vehicle StructuringAlternative Investment Vehicle RestructuringComplianceSecondary TransactionsClosed-Ended FundsHedge FundsHybrid FundsManagement Company StructuringJoint Venture ArrangementsMergersSpin-OffsProfit Sharing PlansVesting PlansSeeding TransactionsRisk Retention Vehicles

Office

Expertise

Investment Fund FormationInvestment Fund ManagementAlternative Investment Vehicle StructuringAlternative Investment Vehicle RestructuringComplianceSecondary TransactionsClosed-Ended FundsHedge FundsHybrid FundsAviationCreditDistressedEvent-DrivenFunds of FundsLitigation FinanceLife SettlementsMacroReal EstateManagement Company StructuringJoint Venture ArrangementsMergersSpin-OffsProfit Sharing PlansVesting PlansSeeding TransactionsRisk Retention Vehicles

Education

  • J.D., Vanderbilt University School of Law, 1999
  • B.A., University of Arizona, summa cum laude, 1996

Languages

RussianFrench