
Philip Reyneke
Associate
Areas of Focus
- Corporate & Finance
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Corporate Governance
- Projects & Energy Transition
- Energy & Infrastructure
- Infrastructure & Transportation
- Oil & Gas
- Renewable Energy
- Health Care & Life Sciences
- Private Equity
- Technology
- Represents clients on complex transactions, private investments and other corporate matters.
- Experience across sectors, including technology, energy & infrastructure and health care & life sciences, among others.
Philip advises on domestic and cross-border mergers & acquisitions (M&A), private investments and corporate governance matters.
His experience includes complex business combinations, reverse listings through special purpose acquisition vehicles (SPACs), restructurings and asset sales across a wide range of industries, including technology, infrastructure, conventional and renewable energy, and health care.
- Represented Macquarie Infrastructure Corporation (MIC) in its $4.5 billion sale of Atlantic Aviation, a leading operator of FBOs and aviation infrastructure in the U.S.
- Represented Cobepa SA in the acquisition of MicroConstants Inc., a San Diego-based contract research organization, by BioAgilytix Labs LLC, a portfolio company of Cobepa.
- Represented Inflection Point Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: IPAX), a SPAC, on the consummation of a $700 million business combination with Intuitive Machines LLC, a leading space exploration, infrastructure and services company. Upon the closing of the transaction, the combined company is now named Intuitive Machines Inc.
- Represented Ara Partners, an industrial decarbonization-focused private equity fund with $1.5 billion in assets under management, in its acquisition, restructuring and initial investment of $75 million in Vonore Fiber Products LLC and Genera Energy Inc., companies in the domestic agricultural pulp and molded fiber industries based in Vonore, Tennessee.
- Represented bolttech Holdings Ltd., an international insurtech company, in its $247 million Series B equity financing round, which values bolttech at more than $1.4 billion.
List may include matters worked on prior to joining Akin.
LanguagesSpanish
Afrikaans
Spanish
Afrikaans
EducationJ.D., University of Texas School of Law, with honors, 2020
B.A., University of Houston, magna cum laude, 2016
J.D., University of Texas School of Law, with honors, 2020
B.A., University of Houston, magna cum laude, 2016
Bar AdmissionsTexas
Texas