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The 104-year-old legacy Texas firm has selected a successor to Mark Kelly – along with three other new leaders.
Keith Fullenweider, the son of a lawyer and a teacher and a veteran of V&E’s M&A practice will begin his new role Jan. 1. He becomes the third Houston partner in a row tapped to lead the legendary firm.
CenterPoint Energy plans to shed LDC assets and $425 million in unrecovered storm-related natural gas costs with its latest transaction.
Private equity exits have been morphing in recent years, according to PitchBook. As sponsor-to-sponsor exits lagged, slack was gobbled up by corporate acquisitions and public listings; or rather, public listings by way of corporate acquisitions by SPACs. Texas, however, might just be bucking the national trend to some extent. The CDT Roundup explains, along with its usual review of last week’s transactions.
The flurry to attract new partners with robust private equity practices continues as Latham & Watkins brings in a new corporate department member in Houston.
The deal count may have fallen between Q1 2020 and 2021, but values are climbing. Here’s a look at the latest quarter’s transaction sizes from Mergermarket.
Texas E&P and oilfield services executives see activity rising as cautious optimism returns. That’s according to the Dallas Fed’s quarterly energy survey. The Texas Lawbook dives into the report, in addition to the latest transactions, in this week’s Corporate Deal Tracker.
The latest Mergermarket data provided exclusively to The Texas Lawbook reveals dealmaking in the Lone Star State is in-sync with broader global and U.S. M&A trends.
Haynes & Boone has been tracking Chapter 11 bankruptcies for energy companies since 2015. Here’s the data on the latest quarter for midstream, oilfield services and oil and gas producer companies.
Deal count is down and values are up as the M&A rally continues in the Lone Star State. Here are some of the key takeaways from Mergermarket’s latest report on Texas provided exclusively to The Texas Lawbook.
Texas lawyers are playing a role in the all-stock merger of Houston’s Cadence Bancorp. and Tupelo, Mississippi’s BancorpSouth Bank valued at more than $6 billion.
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