Frankie Shulkin
Counsel
Areas of Focus
- Corporate & Finance
- Capital Markets
- Corporate Governance
- Special Situations
- Advises companies and private equity funds on special situations and a variety of complex corporate transactions.
- Assists clients on corporate governance matters.
- Represents public and private companies in connection with general corporate and capital markets transactions.
Franklin “Frankie” Shulkin represents clients in a wide range of corporate and securities matters, including securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, SEC reporting and general corporate matters. His capital markets experience includes the representation of both issuers and underwriters in initial public offerings as well as public and private offerings of equity and debt securities, tender offers and other private financings. His expertise also includes special committee advisory work, including the representation of special committees and conflicts committees in connection with various dropdown acquisitions.
Frankie also has in-house experience through a client secondment at an international investment bank, where he served as legal counsel for all equity capital markets transactions and equity private placements and provided general corporate and mergers and acquisitions support across the investment bank.
Prior to joining Akin Gump in 2021, Frankie was an attorney at a major global law firm. He has also served as a Law Clerk for Senator John Cornyn (Texas) on the United States Senate Judiciary Committee.
Capital Markets/Mergers and Acquisitions
- Advised Approach Resources Inc. in its Chapter 11 restructuring, including in the sale of substantially all of its assets to Zarvona Energy, LLC.*
- Represented Teekay Offshore Partners L.P. in connection with a $640 million investment by Brookfield Business Partners L.P. and related transitional matters.*
- Represented Navigator Holdings Ltd. in connection with its joint venture with Enterprise Products Partners LP to build an ethylene export facility.*
- Represented Viper Energy Partners LP, the first U.S.-listed company dedicated to acquiring mineral rights tied to production, in its $130 million initial public offering.*
- Represented Arc Logistics Partners LP in its $114 million initial public offering.*
EducationJ.D., University of Texas School of Law, 2013
B.A. Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, with high honors, 2009
J.D., University of Texas School of Law, 2013
B.A. Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, with high honors, 2009
Bar AdmissionsNew York
Texas
New York
Texas
- One to Watch, The Best Lawyers in America® by Woodward/White Inc. (Corporate Governance and Compliance Law), 2021.