The biggest deal reported last week was the $2.4 billion sale of “non-core” assets along the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast by Dow, the chemical giant. The sale involved a 40 percent stake in Dow InfraCo sold to alternative asset manage Macquarie. The deal is only the latest in a series of “non-core” sell-offs, a phrase that is becoming as common as “consolidation” in the current market. The CDT takes a look at the “non-core” transaction trend and an observer of the Dow deal who less than impressed. And, of course, the usual report on last week’s deals and dealmakers.
Macquarie to Pay $2.4B for 40% Stake in Dow Gulf Coast Assets; Sidley, Linklaters Advise
Assets to be included in a newly-created partnership, Diamond Infrastructure Solutions, involve power and steam production, pipelines and general industrial site infrastructure in Freeport and Seadrift, in Texas and Plaquemine and St. Charles in Louisiana, along with pipeline and storage assets adjacent to NGL and olefin hubs.
CDT Roundup: 16 Deals, 10 Firms, 231 Lawyers, $4.8B
In the year that will soon be past, the sheer volume of energy-related, or energy-adjacent transactions are worth noting. Whether in O&G per se, data center energy demands or the more mundane multitude of PE acquisitions in HVAC manufacturing and service companies, the sides seem okay with the value. So, we weren’t that surprised by the November findings of the semi-annual Haynes Boone Borrowing Base Redeterminations Survey. The CDT Roundup takes a look at the details, along with the usual run-down of the week’s M&A deals and the lawyers behind them.
CDT Roundup: 10 Deals, 9 Firms, 103 Lawyers, $10.3B
As we approach the end of 2024, it’s crucial to ensure that your submissions to the Corporate Deal Tracker are fully credited. The Texas Lawbook’s M&A team is committed to identifying all relevant submissions for deals involving Texas-based lawyers, and we want to make sure that no qualified deal from your firm goes unaccounted for. That and more, including last week’s deals, in this edition of the CDT Roundup.
CDT Roundup: 15 Deals, 15 Firms, 153 Lawyers, $4.6B
For some, it may be too soon to talk about it, but business leaders are already weighing in on how their industries might be impacted by the election results. In one of the first survey’s we’ve seen, Endeavor Business Intelligence deployed a short questionnaire to U.S. business leaders on their perceptions of the upcoming change in administrations. There were 160 respondents, not bad for a one-week project; and the answers proved more complex than one might expect. That and the usual review of last week’s reported transactions.
ONEOK to Complete Its Takeover of EnLink Midstream with $4.3B All-Stock Deal
Kirkland & Ellis advised ONEOK and Baker Botts advised EnLink on the transaction in which ONEOK acquires the 56 percent of EnLink it doesn’t already own. The deal finishes off an $11.6 billion flurry of transactions by the Tulsa-based midstream.
Blackstone Buys Into JV with EQT for $3.5B
Kirkland & Ellis and Milbank are advising the two of the joint venture, which will involve three midstream assets in the Appalachian Basin including the Hammerhead Pipeline and the Mountain Valley Pipeline systems.
Skadden, Weil Advise on $1.2B Sale of Pipelines by ONEOK
Tulsa-based ONEOK is selling three pipelines connecting Appalachian basins with midwestern gas and power markets.
CDT Roundup: 17 Deals, 11 Firms, 245 Lawyers, $11.5B
Methane emissions are a sticky business in Texas, especially in the Permian where the colorless, odorless substance is simply a by-product of exploration and production for oil and gas on a massive scale. An $88 million satellite set into orbit in March, however, has begun to visualize and quantify the problem. The picture isn’t pretty. But situation is complicated, as the CDT Roundup reports this week — along with its usual survey of transactions.
How Instant Brands Went From Victim to Accused, According to Bankruptcy Trustee
A New York firm apparently victimized by questionable bookkeeping in an M&A deal was accused by a bankruptcy trustee last week of using that same questionable bookkeeping to pay $345 million in dividends to itself and its investors from a fraudulently obtained loan.