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Prior to joining The Lawbook, Pusey was the editor and publisher of the ABA Journal, which is the nation’s largest circulation legal publication. Before his decade with the Journal, Pusey spent 26 years as a reporter and editor at The Dallas Morning News, where he was a special projects editor and covered the Supreme Court of the United States.
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Plano-based Reata specializes in the treatment of neurological complications with cellular metabolism and inflammation associated with neurological diseases. The all-cash transaction is being treated as a combination and is expected to close in the fourth quarter of this year.
Below is a list of qualified M&A transactions reported to The Texas Lawbook for 2023. The list is organic, designed to grow as needed. So if you have deals that qualify or
Below is a list of qualified M&A and Funding transactions reported to The Texas Lawbook for 2023. This list, available to PREMIUM SUBSCRIBERS ONLY, is organic and searchable. It is designed to grow as
The South Texas Gateway Terminal, located just outside Corpus Christi, is the second largest crude oil terminal facility in the U.S. The deal will be financed by a variety of debt offerings along with permanent financing backed by a $350 million bought deal offering of subscription receipts.
The deal includes a concurrent sale of working assets to Northern O&G for the equivalent of a third of the consideration, meaning a net payout for Earthstone of $1 billion. The transaction, which involved nearly 40 lawyers from Kirkland and V&E, extends Earthstone's reach in the Delaware Basin. The Lawbook has the details and, of course, the names of the lawyers involved.
The deal, the largest transaction among publicly traded energy firms so far this year, combines ONEOK's natural gas liquids business with Magellan's vast network of refined petroleum pipelines.
Houston-based Mattress Firm emerged from bankruptcy in November 2018 after only two months. The deal, which is likely to require antitrust scrutiny, involves more than 3,000 brick and mortar stores worldwide.
For Premium Subscribers Will Marsh is general counsel at Cactus, Inc., a Houston-based company that manufactures and sells pressure-control equipment. On the final day of 2022 he cemented for Cactus
Gibson Dunn, Kirkland & Ellis and Vinson & Elkins counseled the various parties in the pair of agreements with a total of 70 Texas lawyers in the mix. The deal includes what Ovintiv describes as "a unique undeveloped asset" involving "some of the best rock" in the Northern Midland Basin of the Permian.
The sale to CF Holdings, coupled with a long-term supply agreement, is part of a plan announced last November to spin off its industrial explosives subsidiary Dyno Nobel Americas. CF has energy transition upgrades planned for the site. Allen Pusey has the deal details, as well as the Latham lawyers involved.
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