Dear Clients and Friends,

At Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, we are committed to our clients, in good times and bad. In today's low commodity price environment, the need for creative solutions is especially vital. Accordingly, Akin Gump continues to assist our clients as they encounter challenges and seek to capitalize on opportunities in this new "lower for longer" world. We provide advice and counsel in an industry that affects the world economy and is, in turn, affected by world events. As one would imagine, our financial restructuring practice was very active in energy-related matters in 2015; however, we also handled significant energy merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions, as well as quite a few financing arrangements.