Natasha G. Kohne is a highly regarded business leader, strategist and trusted advisor to public and private-equity backed companies and their boards across industries spanning from technology and financial services to consumer, healthcare, industrial and defense. With extensive experience in U.S. and international markets, and as a senior partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, she has been instrumental in building the firm’s global footprint and new markets in the Middle East and Europe and has led the sovereign wealth fund practice overseas and emerging technology focus in the U.S. Ms. Kohne launched and led Akin’s Abu Dhabi office in the United Arab Emirates, set the strategy, secured significant business opportunities, and built a talented team to drive immediate and long-term growth, leading to revenue generation of tens of millions of dollars.
Ms. Kohne’s leadership and ability to scale businesses led her to launch and co-lead Akin’s global artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and data protection practices where she is known for her business acumen and solution-oriented approach to cutting-edge problems. She has advised hundreds of public and private companies and their boards on mergers and acquisitions, digital transformations and cyber crisis management and has been described by her peers as “extremely knowledgeable on all issues relating to privacy law and . . . extremely commercially minded.” Both worldwide and in California, the fifth largest economy in the world, she has been recognized globally in Chambers for artificial intelligence in 2025 and as one of the California’s top cybersecurity and artificial intelligence lawyers for the last five years.
In her role as a key strategic advisor for multiple leading sovereign wealth funds worth trillions of dollars, family offices in the billions of dollars and foreign investors worldwide, Ms. Kohne combines commercial instinct, operational leadership and a collaborative stewardship to protect and create long-term value for investors and shareholders across several continents and industries. Her leadership role with sovereign wealth funds has led to guiding and providing mission critical advice to government leaders, embassies, board members and investors in geopolitical crisis management, government investigations, international conflict, public communications, governance and risk assessments.
Since 2008, Ms. Kohne has been a partner at Akin, a top 25 global law firm with more than 900 lawyers and $1.4 billion annual revenue. Ms. Kohne’s management and oversight responsibilities include serving as a member of the firm’s Management Committee (2017-2023), Diversity Equity and Inclusion Partnership Subcommittee (2022 to present) and Partnership Committee (2014-2016).
Ms. Kohne has also been honored as one of the “Woman Worth Watching” from the Diversity Journal and is accredited as a Certified Information Privacy Professional by the International Association of Privacy Professionals. She received her J.D. degree from Harvard Law School, cum laude, in 2000 and attended Columbia College, Columbia University, summa cum laude, 1996.