Baker Botts, Wachtell Advise on $17B Cabot-Cimarex Merger
Strategic combinations continue to be the theme of energy M&A in 2021 as Cabot and Cimarex announce plans to combine in an all-stock "merger of equals."
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Anna Butler is the corporate transactions reporter for The Texas Lawbook, covering mergers and acquisitions and capital markets. Anna is the former managing editor of the Dallas Business Journal, where she led day-to-day newsroom operations, audience engagement strategies and paid subscription growth. A seventh-generation Texan, Anna grew up in central Austin. She studied History, Latin and Art History at Wake Forest University in North Carolina before graduating from the French Culinary Institute in New York. She lives in Lakewood with her beagle.
Strategic combinations continue to be the theme of energy M&A in 2021 as Cabot and Cimarex announce plans to combine in an all-stock "merger of equals."
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