Jon Boben
Partner
Areas of Focus
- Preferred Equity & Hybrid Capital
- Corporate & Finance
- Private Equity Transactions
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Credit Funds
- Institutional Investors
- Technology
- Oil & Gas
- Oilfield Services
- Project Debt & Equity Finance
- Energy Transition
- Special Situations
- Private Credit
- Private Capital
- Handles complex mergers and acquisitions, regular-way equity investments, and highly-bespoke capital solutions and hybrid capital investments.
- Works with companies, asset managers and other investors, and their portfolio companies.
- Attuned to trends in private markets and has broad industry experience.
- Serves as hiring partner for the Houston office.
Jon Boben represents financial and strategic buyers and sellers in complex mergers and acquisitions, and investors and companies in pure equity and hybrid capital investments.
His practice also includes joint ventures, special-situation transactions, management equity arrangements, portfolio company matters, and general corporate counseling.
Jon has experience in a wide array of industries, including automotive, consulting, consumer goods, fintech, health care, hospitality, industrials, infrastructure, legal services, logistics and transportation, manufacturing, oil and gas, oilfield services, packaging, renewable energy, retail, software and information technology, staffing, technology, media and telecom.
Capital Solutions | Hybrid Capital
Top private credit funds and other asset managers and investors in hybrid capital financings and innovate capital solutions—often in the form of preferred stock, structured equity, debt-like pref equity, or convertibles—and other alternative financings:
- $200,000,000 preferred stock investment in an enterprise software company operating a global employment platform
- $500,000,000 preferred equity investment in a midstream infrastructure concern
- $223,000,000 preferred stock investment in a legal technology venture
- $150,000,000 preferred equity investment in an energy joint venture
- $60,000,000 preferred equity investment in a specialty insurance company
- Preferred stock investment in, and recapitalization of, an AI-driven medtech company
- Structured equity investment in a sports nutrition and health food business
- $25,000,000 structured equity investment to support acquisition financings for platform investments
- $30,000,000 structured equity acquisition financing
- Structured equity recapitalization of a private-equity-backed energy infrastructure business
EducationJ.D., University of Houston Law Center, 2012
M.S., London School of Economics and Political Science, with merit, 2008
B.B.A., Texas A&M University, 2007
J.D., University of Houston Law Center, 2012
M.S., London School of Economics and Political Science, with merit, 2008
B.B.A., Texas A&M University, 2007
Bar AdmissionsNew York
Texas
New York
Texas
- “M&A Basics,” Akin Deal Maker’s Boot Camp, Houston, Texas, October 2022.
- “M&A Basics,” Akin Deal Maker’s Boot Camp, November 2023.
- “M&A Basics,” Akin Deal Maker’s Boot Camp, Houston, Texas, November 2018.
- “Getting the Deal Done: Navigating Key Legal Issues in M&A Transactions,” The Association of Corporate Counsel, Houston, Texas, and The Woodlands, Texas, May 2019.
- “Structured Equity,” Akin Deal Maker’s Boot Camp, Houston, Texas, September 2019.