Dallas PE Partner Moves to Akin 

Dilen Kumar has joined Akin in Dallas as a corporate partner. He will focus his practice on private equity transactions, mergers and acquisitions, investment strategies and corporate governance matters, according to a news release. 

Kumar spent nearly five years as a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman, where he advised private equity sponsors and public and private companies on mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, carve-outs and investment transactions. Before Katten, he was a partner in the private equity and M&A practice at Kirkland & Ellis. Before entering private practice, Kumar served in the Obama administration as an assistant counsel in the White House Counsel’s Office. He has also represented private equity firms, asset managers and public companies in transactions across the healthcare, technology, energy and consumer sectors and has advised clients on corporate governance and special situations matters.