Akin Gump Beefs Up Restructuring, Global Debt Finance Practices

• New hires will join Akin’s financial restructuring and global debt finance practices

• Three of them will launch new Hartford, Conn. office, which firm expect to grow

Akin Gump added four Morgan Lewis attorneys to its financial restructuring and global debt finance practices on Oct. 23.

Three will launch Akin’s Hartford office, bringing the firm’s total to 21 offices worldwide.

And Akin is casting an eye to the future with the hirings, Daniel Golden, co-chair of Akin Gump’s global financial restructuring practice, told Bloomberg Law in an email.

“The financial markets have always been cyclical and interest rates are ...