Afshin Hakim

More About Afshin Hakim

Afshin represents startups, emerging growth, and middle-market companies as their outside general counsel, serving as a trusted advisor to entrepreneurs, investors, and management teams. Afshin’s prior experience as a litigator and in-house general counsel of a privately held company brings a deeper level of business experience that his clients find invaluable. He works with companies in several industries, including technology, digital and social media, internet marketing, entertainment, health care, branded consumer products, financial services, and real estate. Afshin has extensive experience serving as counsel to investors (including venture capital funds, angel investors, growth and mezzanine capital providers, private equity groups, and other capital sources) and companies in equity and debt financing transactions. These deals range from tiny seed capital investments (in standard or preferred equity financings and convertible debt) to traditional venture capital preferred stock transactions to minority and control investments made by private equity funds. He also represents borrowers and lenders in secured debt financing transactions.

Afshin has broad and deep expertise in mergers and acquisitions, representing buyers and sellers. He regularly advises private equity funds and strategic buyers in their acquisitions and counsels companies and entrepreneurs on their liquidity events. Afshin works closely with his clients on every phase of the transaction, from initial deal structure (asset sales, stock sales, or statutory mergers) to post-closing issues critical to clients, such as non-competes, employment agreements, and earn-outs.

Prior to starting the Hakim Law Group, Afshin was a corporate partner at Credo LLP. He began his legal career as an employment litigator at O’Melveny & Myers LLP. He then moved on to practice corporate law at two top international firms, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP and Hogan and Lovells, LLP. Afshin also served as general counsel of a privately held company with over $1 billion in assets under management.

Afshin earned two B.A.’s, with Honors, in Rhetoric and Psychology from t.C. Berkeley in 1993. He earned his J.D. from toyolaToyotachool in 1996, graduating in the top 5% of the class.

Proudly Serving: Los Angeles, CA

Hakim Law Group is a corporate law firm in Los Angeles that is tailored for entrepreneurs, from the initial startup phase to a fully mature business. 
 
 We specialize in the following:

 • Corporate/Business Law

• Transactional/Contract Law

• Startups

• Employment Law

• Venture Capital

• Real Estate

• Mergers & Acquisitions

Our experienced business attorneys represent a wide range of small businesses, operating companies, venture capital firms, and financiers in the education, fashion, finance, health care, internet and social media, technology, real estate, and television industries across a full spectrum of transactional and intellectual property law disciplines.