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Adam Hankiss is a partner in our Corporate Finance and Investments practice. Adam regularly represents private equity funds, private and public corporate clients, pension plans, family offices and investment banking firms in U.S. and cross-border M&A, private equity, joint venture, venture capital and other complex corporate transactions. He has significant experience in a variety of sectors, with a focus on the energy, infrastructure and natural resources, and the telecommunications, media and technology sectors.
J.D., Columbia University
LL.M., Columbia University
J.D., ELTE University Budapest, summa cum laude
New York
Hungarian
June 8, 2022
Legal 500 United States 2022 Recognizes King & Spalding Practices and Lawyers Among the Top in the Nation
February 7, 2022
Adam Hankiss and Jonathan Melmed advise JonesTrading, which underwrote Seven Oaks Acquisition’s $250M SPAC IPO
October 18, 2021
Adam Hankiss advises JonesTrading Institutional Services, which underwrote Bombax Healthcare Acquisition’s $50M SPAC IPO
Representing an ethanol producer and affiliate of a hybrid hedge/private equity fund re a first in kind tax equity financing under 45Q Carbon Sequestration transaction located in Texas. (2020)
Represented Axium Infrastructure, a private equity fund based in Montreal and New York that focuses on energy and infrastructure investments, re its acquisition from Recurrent Energy of an 80% interest in the Crimson Battery Energy Storage Projects. Please click here to read an article about the transaction. (2021)
Advised JonesTrading, the PIPE placement agent in connection with the Forbes Global Media Holding's SPAC merger
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October 2, 2020
A First Look at California’s Executive Order Banning Fuel-Burning Vehicles and Imposing Other Greenhouse Gas Reducing Restrictions
June 19, 2020
California Amends Its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (“LCFS”)
June 18, 2020
Energy Newsletter – June 2020
June 8, 2022
Legal 500 United States 2022 Recognizes King & Spalding Practices and Lawyers Among the Top in the Nation
February 7, 2022
Adam Hankiss and Jonathan Melmed advise JonesTrading, which underwrote Seven Oaks Acquisition’s $250M SPAC IPO
October 18, 2021
Adam Hankiss advises JonesTrading Institutional Services, which underwrote Bombax Healthcare Acquisition’s $50M SPAC IPO
Representing an ethanol producer and affiliate of a hybrid hedge/private equity fund re a first in kind tax equity financing under 45Q Carbon Sequestration transaction located in Texas. (2020)
Represented Axium Infrastructure, a private equity fund based in Montreal and New York that focuses on energy and infrastructure investments, re its acquisition from Recurrent Energy of an 80% interest in the Crimson Battery Energy Storage Projects. Please click here to read an article about the transaction. (2021)
Advised JonesTrading, the PIPE placement agent in connection with the Forbes Global Media Holding's SPAC merger
See more
October 2, 2020
A First Look at California’s Executive Order Banning Fuel-Burning Vehicles and Imposing Other Greenhouse Gas Reducing Restrictions
June 19, 2020
California Amends Its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (“LCFS”)
June 18, 2020
Energy Newsletter – June 2020
June 8, 2022
Legal 500 United States 2022 Recognizes King & Spalding Practices and Lawyers Among the Top in the Nation
February 7, 2022
Adam Hankiss and Jonathan Melmed advise JonesTrading, which underwrote Seven Oaks Acquisition’s $250M SPAC IPO
October 18, 2021
Adam Hankiss advises JonesTrading Institutional Services, which underwrote Bombax Healthcare Acquisition’s $50M SPAC IPO
J.D., Columbia University
LL.M., Columbia University
J.D., ELTE University Budapest, summa cum laude
New York
Hungarian