Alexander J. Reyes focuses his practice on corporate legal matters including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, securities, financings, and corporate governance. Alex serves as Co-Chair of the Corporate Practice Group.
Alex has more than 30 years of business, legal and corporate leadership experience with a broad range of business and legal capabilities based on a diverse corporate practice law firm background, in-house legal department practice, operational management, and executive management experience. As a former general counsel and a C-suite executive, Alex has a results-driven and pragmatic approach to his practice, striving to mitigate risks for clients and to provide them with practical legal advice to enable them to make decisions and execute their overarching business strategy. He is focused on getting the job done, whether it be closing a transaction or resolving corporate governance issues.
Prior to joining Leech Tishman, Alex served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary of CNX Resources Corporation, a publicly traded Pittsburgh-based producer of natural gas and a leading diversified energy company in the U.S. Alex has a depth of experience in the energy industry, specifically in oil & gas, midstream and coal. He also held various business positions at CNX from its operations group managing corporate and legal activities related to its Marcellus and Utica Shale joint ventures with a combined JV value over $4B, to leading and restructuring its land department overseeing 100+ employees and being responsible for annual capital budgets in excess of $160M. Alex was lead internal counsel on various asset acquisitions and divestitures ranging from $5M to $350M. He directed legal department efforts for several significant strategic transactions for the company, including a pivotal Marcellus shale gas asset acquisition (stock and asset transaction) valued in excess of $3B.
From a corporate governance perspective, Alex has experience developing and implementing corporate compliance programs, and has been regularly engaged with boards of directors and committees developing and implementing governance charters and policies. He also successfully led a proxy defense campaign against an activist shareholder proxy proposal.
Alex’s experience prior to CNX includes a corporate practice at a large Pittsburgh law firm representing clients spanning across several diverse industries, both public companies and closely-held businesses, including commercial real estate development, technology start-ups, and manufacturing.
