Conversations with World Leaders – Ranesh Ramanathan, Partner, Capital Solutions, Akin

One To World’s Conversations with World Leaders program is a series of face-to-face meetings with CEOs, philanthropists, civic leaders, and other influential New Yorkers. They wish to engage Fulbright students in an exchange of ideas and life stories.

 

This October, we invite interested students to meet Ranesh Ramanathan, Partner, Capital Solutions, Akin.

Ranesh is the leader of Akin’s globally integrated capital solutions team. With a global practice and platform, Ranesh provides bespoke capital solutions to a broad array of clients. He helps companies raise capital and investors deploy capital in complex situations across debt & equity, hybrid and structured solutions, joint ventures, rollups and spinouts.

Ranesh has a particular focus on creative investment structures tailored to private capital investors and public and private companies. He helps clients to find the right mix of debt, equity or hybrid solutions.

Drawing on his deep and diverse experience across the full spectrum of issues facing private capital investors, Ranesh represents some of the world’s largest 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, extracting entire business units from distressed sellers and structuring other multinational, cross-border transactions and deals.
In addition to his work across the investment spectrum, Ranesh 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.

 

Please fill out this application form to apply. You will receive an email from a staff member if you are accepted to attend. If you have already received a confirmation email, please RSVP below.

Student Immigration Event: Options for Students After Graduation

Join us for an essential info session designed specifically for international students exploring their next steps in the U.S. job market. Hosted at the Manhattan offices of Fragomen Law Firm, one of the world’s leading immigration firms, this event will provide a clear breakdown of the most common pathways to stay and work in the U.S. after graduation.

 

Fragomen’s experts will cover the basics of OPT, startup H-1Bs, E-2 visas, EB-5, O-1, and EB-1 options. They will explain what they are, who qualifies, and how to plan ahead.

 

Whether you’re aiming for short-term professional experience or considering a path toward long-term residency, this session will equip you with the knowledge to understand your options and make informed decisions about your future.

 

Speakers at the event include:
Parisa Karaahmet, Senior Partner at Fragomen
Dan Schwarz, Partner at Fragomen
Mike Izrailev, Senior Associate at Fragomen
Michael Castiglione, Associate at Fragomen

There will be time for Q&A, networking, and light refreshments.

Special Conversation with Innocence Project Exonerees

We are so excited to be partnering with the Innocence Project to offer an informative discussion about their amazing work and hear personal stories from individuals who were wrongfully convicted of a crime, leading to their exoneration by the organization.

 

Founded in 1992 by visionary attorneys Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck, the Innocence Project has been at the forefront of criminal justice reform, using DNA and other scientific advancements to prove wrongful conviction.

 

At the event taking place in Tribeca, Manhattan, you will hear from Stacey Anderson, Legal Policy Analyst at the Innocence Project, and Rodney Roberts, Re-Entry Coach and Exoneree at the Innocence Project.

 

If you are interested in learning more about the criminal justice system of the United States, hearing impactful stories about wrongs made right, or simply looking for something interesting to do on a Friday afternoon, please join us!

 

Note: 75% of the ticket fee will go towards a donation to the Innocence Project's mission as a non-profit organization. If you would like to contribute an additional amount as an honorarium for Rodney's time, we will share an additional link in the confirmation email and 100% of that will go to Rodney.

Protected: Fulbright Research Sharing Seminar at One World Trade Center

For our first Fulbright event of 2025, One To World is organizing a research sharing seminar at IIE's headquarters in the famous One World Trade Center and we hope you will join us to present your own research to your peers!
This event will be facilitated by Rob Snyder, Fulbright alum, Manhattan Borough Historian, and professor emeritus of Journalism and American Studies at Rutgers University.

 

The goal of this event is to offer a platform for you to share about what you have been working on in the U.S. and in your home country to other grantees who are eager to learn more. Once you RSVP, we will contact you to share more about the parameters of the event, as well as connect you with other grantees that may also be doing similar research.

 

Please note you are encouraged to join even if you don't want to present! There are two RSVP links below for attendees and presenters.

 

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This Fulbright Enrichment activity is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State with funding provided by the U.S. Government and supported in its implementation by the Institute of International Education (IIE), and One To World.