CDT Roundup: 15 Deals, 14 Firms, 193 Lawyers, $20.6B

This past week saw two billion-dollar deals, each of them non-energy (for a change): Realty Income buying Spirit Realty for $9.3 billion and iconic Six Flags merging with Cedar Fair in a $8 billion transaction. There was also a sizable learning-related software deal: Instructure buys Parchment for $835 million.

But there was plenty of energy deals to feast over pre-Thanksgiving: Entergy shedding its gas distribution unit to Bernhard Capital for $484 million while Williams picking up Cureton Midstream from Tailwater Capital and Ares for an undisclosed sum. Comstock formed a $400 million partnership with Quantum and Forum Energy Technologies bought SCF Partners-backed Variperm for $193.5 million. Some private equity firms are getting deeper into energy while others are exiting their positions.