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The second week of October recorded the lowest total value for transactions ever recorded by the CDT Roundup. But with two major M&A deals already reported this week, there is absolute certainty that next week's report will be better.
Irving-based Pioneer Natural Resources is buying Parsley Energy for $4.5 billion in stock and the assumption of $3.1 billion of Parsley's debt. Texas Lawbook writer Allen Pusey has the lawyers for Gibson Dunn and Vinson & Elkins.
A trial in Waco pitting a Florida inventor against the streaming service Roku may not have been spectacular, but it was notable, as much for points in style as for points of law. Allen Pusey explains.
Consolidation in the shale oil business took a big step Monday morning with the announcement that major Permian player Concho Resources has agreed to combine with Houston-based ConocoPhillips.
Gov. Greg Abbott has selected El Paso native Rebeca Huddle to fill the open seat on the Texas Supreme Court left by Justice Paul Green, who retired from the bench at the end of August. Huddle, a former justice on the First Court of Appeals in Houston, was most recently the partner-in-charge of Baker Botts' Houston office.
The week was defined by one big deal, a drop to single-digit transactions and a flurry of reports on the energy industry by Haynes and Boone that provide context for the transactions that pass through the CDT Roundup.
Energy companies are likely going to face a new lending environment, even when the nation exits from its current coronavirus woes, according to new reports by Haynes and Boone. Even though prices have stabilized banks are changing the rules, and O&G companies are moving toward greater self-reliance in the process.
The U.S. Fifth Circuit once again ruled against an investor in Stanford International Bank, the notorious Houston-based Ponzi scheme. The ruling likely signals an end to at least one thread of litigation in the 11 years since its $7 billion collapse. Allen Pusey explains.
The third quarter of 2020 ended last week, not with a bang, but with increased volume of work for Texas lawyers. The CDT Roundup reports that the deals for the week had heft.
The Q3 Mergermarket numbers are in. Deals were also up. But also down from last year. Total value was up. But both are well below average and rate poorly against the last 14 years. Allen Pusey has the numbers.
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