Jake Haskins helps entrepreneurs, emerging growth companies and investors achieve their goals. He counsels companies on a range of corporate and securities matters, including corporate formation, debt and equity financings, mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance.

While an undergraduate student at Vanderbilt, Jake led a successful business venture, gaining a valuable perspective on the challenges his clients face. From start-up to expansion to sale, Jake brings experience and passion to each transaction in order to deliver successful results.

Prior to joining Shulman Rogers, Jake practiced at a boutique corporate law firm in Austin, Texas, where he represented emerging growth companies, and as a corporate and securities attorney in the Houston office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where he focused on public offerings and SEC compliance and reporting obligations.

Jake received his J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School. He received a B.S. in Human and Organizational Development and History (Concentration in European History) from Vanderbilt University.

Results

  • Berry Corporation (NASDAQ: BRY) in the acquisition of Basic Energy Services’ California operations, through a court-supervised auction process as part of Basic’s Chapter 11 restructuring.
  • Star Peak Corp II (NYSE: STPC), a special purpose acquisition company, on its $1.35 billion business combination with Benson Hill, Inc., a sustainable food technology company.
  • Peridot Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: PDAC) on its $1.67 billion combination agreement with Li-Cycle Corp.
  • Janus International in its $1.9 billion business combination with Juniper Industrial Holdings (NYSE: JIH), a special purpose acquisition company.
  • Vector Acquisition Corporation II, a special purpose acquisition company that will target business in the technology and technology-enabled services sectors, with its upsized $450 million initial public offering.
  • Northern Oil and Gas, Inc. in its public offering of 14,375,000 shares of common stock and a private placement of $550 million of new 8.125% senior notes due 2028 in connection with its acquisition of certain non-operated natural gas assets in the Appalachian Basin from a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Ltd.
  • Northern Oil and Gas, Inc. in its tender offer for any and all of its outstanding 8.50% senior secured second lien notes due 2023 and related consent solicitation.

*Includes matters handled prior to joining Shulman Rogers

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