Co-leader of Special Situations & Private Credit Practice. Focuses on innovative capital investments, including private equity, distressed and special situations, asset acquisitions, spinouts and hybrid transactions. Former managing director at Bain Capital and general counsel to Bain Capital’s credit business. Ranesh Ramanathan is the co-leader of Akin’s integrated special situations & private credit practice. He has deep and diverse experience advising 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 and extracting entire business units from distressed sellers. In addition to his work across the credit spectrum, he 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.