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If ranking at the top of The Texas Lawbook's deal lists pisses off a few lawyers at Big Law firms in Texas, Kevin Henderson can live with that. In a way, he planned on it. He closed 30 transactions last year in an M&A space most of them wouldn't bother with, creating a space of his own with an unusual firm structured in an unusual way for an unusual market.
In a decision filed Thursday, the U.S. Fifth Circuit upheld the federal permitting for the Sea Port Oil Terminal project, a massive crude pipeline network and storage facility to be located off the Texas coast. The appeals court refused a demand by environmental groups that the U.S. Maritime Administration revisit the environmental impact of the project for its potential harm to the ecological balance in the Gulf of Mexico and the possible extinction of the endangered Rice's whale.
There's a change coming in the Houston office of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. The firm announced this morning that Houston managing partner David Lieberman is stepping down and will be succeeded by a trio of partners: Matthew Einbinder, Breen Haire and Christopher May.
Houston-based McDermott International ended its eight-year dispute with Refinería de Cartagena Friday when an SDTX bankruptcy judge signed signed off on a remarkable $900 million package that includes the surrender of 19.9% of the company’s common equity. For Mike Stenglein of King & Spalding, the unprecedented solution marks the end, not only of a grueling international litigation, but resolves all doubt that his Colombian clients were responsible for billions lost in their refinery's construction.
To no one’s surprise, energy dominated other capital market sectors in Texas-related activity.
The court ruled that Denver-based Catalyst Strategic Advisors is entitled to an advisory completion fee in connection with the sale of a Houston building supply company. The court determined that the "procuring-cause doctrine" was rendered inapplicable by the specific language of Catalyst's contract, even though the sale took place 15 months after the company's sale.
Below is a list of qualified capital markets transactions reported to The Texas Lawbook during 2024. The list is organic, designed to grow as deals are reported. So if you have deals
Below is a list of qualified M&A transactions reported to The Texas Lawbook for 2024. The list is organic, designed to grow as needed. So if you have deals that qualify or
Texas-related M&A data for 2023 compiled from The Texas Lawbook's exclusive Corporate Deal Tracker reveals a strangely successful year — even a record year in some quarters. A record number of Texas-related deals were reported: 1,225 mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures with an aggregate value of $739.7 billion. That's a 13.2 percent climb in deal volume over 2022 (1,082) and more than double year-over-year values ($367.1 billion).
If M&A markets seemed slow, capital markets appeared dead. According to a study by PwC, a record year in 2021 has been followed by near silence. The CDT Roundup this week looks at the stats behind a precipitous drop in IPOs and some recent, long-overdue attention to SPACs by the SEC. All that and the usual roster of Texas-related transactions reported last week.
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