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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.
Former professional baseball player and sports nutrition vendor Neiman Nix lost his appeal of a case he filed in Texas against Major League Baseball — arguing that the league's ban of a growth hormone discriminated against his business selling products that included it. It's a case he'd filed, and lost, elsewhere. And that was the problem, the Fifth Circuit said.
Several Texas-based lawyers were involved in the take-private deal, which comes barely two years after the business software company went public in a January 2021 IPO. An earlier headline has been changed to reflect the overall deal value.
Baytex says the transaction nearly doubles both its EBITDA and free cash flow, allowing an immediate step-up in direct shareholder returns, including the introduction of a dividend and increased share buybacks. The Lawbook has the names of the lawyers involved.
2023 was a year of contrasts: deals were up, but values were down; interest rates were up, but the energy sector was vibrant; dealmakers were cautious, but their lawyers were busy, busy, busy. The Corporate Deal Tracker has the year-end tally and analyses by our Texas experts from every corner of the market.
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