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Under the deal KDP will pay $990 million in cash for a 60 percent stake in Ghost Lifestyle and Ghost Beverages, with purchase of the remaining 40 percent to follow in 2028. Ghost will operate as part of KDP but will continue to be run by Ghost co-founders, Dan Lourenco and Ryan Hughes.
The debt finance lawyer moves from Freshfields where he officed in New York.
Dykema's 20th anniversary M&A Outlook Survey is grounded in optimism, a far cry from the doom-saying that characterizes these final days of the presidential race. The survey, taken between late July and early August suggests that M&A may well thrive between now and mid-2025. The CDT Roundup takes a look at the apparent reasoning behind such optimism, along with the usual list of Texas-related transactions reported last week.
Scores on the state's bar exam are confidential. Statistics are not. This much we know from the Board of Law Examiners: of 3,299 individuals who took the latest exam back in July, 74.5 percent of them passed. But courtesy of Texas Supreme Court Justice Brett Busby, the court's liaison to the BLE, we do know the names of the top three examinees.
As part of a promised $3 billion in divestitures, P66 is selling off its minority share in Coop Pronto, an operator of food-and-gas locations across Switzerland.
Specializing in O&G finance and energy risk analytics, Hwang has worked on LNG projects from Australia to Mozambique, along with extensive experience in traditional energy in the upstream and midstream space.
Chevron's announcement last week of a $6.5 billion divestiture of a couple of Canadian upstream interests reminded us that the California company is on the verge of relocating its C-Suite to Houston. But included, along with the household furniture and company file cabinets, is an ongoing beef with their new Texas neighbors, Exxon Mobil, over Chevron's proposed $53 billion merger with Hess Corp. The CDT Roundup catches up with recent developments regarding the disputed merger, along with the usual list of firms and lawyers behind last week's Texas-related transactions.
There's no way to play down 22 reported transactions for this week valued at more than $23 billion; it was a good week, especially when 15 of those are M&A and your capital markets deals include two IPOs. But in addition to the usual summary of all those deals, along with the firms and lawyers behind them, we take our quarterly look at the number of publicly-reported transactions we've handled in the CDT Roundup thus far in 2024.
Rodney Moore, Samuel Peca and Scott Delaney — all veterans of Weil — are headed to Jones Day after less than two years at Winston & Strawn.
The Dallas Fed each quarter surveys executives from six different business sectors. The Fed's surveys for the third quarter were released last week. The CDT Roundup looks at the one on energy, which reveals a peculiar lack of enthusiasm for a sector rampant with M&A. That, and the usual review of the firms and lawyers behind last week's modest number of transactions.
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