Q&A: Ryan Maierson’s Big Month and What It Says About the M&A Market

Latham & Watkins partner Ryan Maierson in Houston has been one busy corporate lawyer. In the last month, he’s led three billion-dollar-plus deals: UGI on its $2.4 billion purchase of the stock it didn’t own of AmeriGas; TMK’s Ipsco Tubulars on its $1.209 billion sale to Argentina’s Tenaris; and Equitrans Midstream Corp./EQM Midstream Partners on acquiring 60% of Eureka Midstream Holdings and all of Hornet Midstream Holdings from Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners for $1.03 billion.

“It has me pretty exhausted at the moment,” he said when The Texas Lawbook caught up with him recently. “I’m trying to figure out which way is up.” He talked about the three deals (“they all involve companies with three letters,” he joked), the general state of energy dealmaking right now (which has been a bit lackluster due to investor sentiment) and what’s to come.