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Anna Butler

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.

Vinson & Elkins Taps New Leadership

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.

May 3, 2021 Anna Butler

Summit Utilities Acquires Arkansas, Oklahoma Assets from CenterPoint Energy

CenterPoint Energy plans to shed LDC assets and $425 million in unrecovered storm-related natural gas costs with its latest transaction.

April 29, 2021 Anna Butler

CDT Roundup: 8 Deals, 9 Firms, 31 Lawyers, $20.2B

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.

April 27, 2021 Anna Butler

Latham Scoops up V&E PE Partner

The flurry to attract new partners with robust private equity practices continues as Latham & Watkins brings in a new corporate department member in Houston.

April 26, 2021 Anna Butler

Mergermarket Sizes Up Q1 in Texas With Fewer Deals at Higher Values

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.

April 21, 2021 Anna Butler

CDT Roundup: 14 Deals, 8 Firms, 102 Lawyers, $6.27B

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.

April 20, 2021 Anna Butler

Texas Tech Sector Hot in M&A for Q1

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.

April 19, 2021 Anna Butler

Energy Bankruptcy Tracker: A Look at Q1 Filings From Haynes & Boone

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.

April 15, 2021 Anna Butler

Q1 Mergermarket Breakdown: No Surprises as Texas M&A Continues to Rage

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.

April 15, 2021 Anna Butler

Cadence and BancorpSouth to Merge with Aid from Counsel in Dallas, Houston

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.

April 14, 2021 Anna Butler

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  • 2025 DFW Corp. Counsel Award Winners: ‘It Was a Challenging Year’ - Brinker, Children’s Health, Comerica, Energy Transfer, Match, PGA, Schwab, Solo Brands and Trintech were the big winners Thursday night at the 2025 DFW Corporate Counsel Awards. Eight of the 14 award categories, including Business Litigation of the Year, M&A Transaction of the Year and Corporate Legal Department of the Year, featured multiple finalists, with judges describing them as photo finishes. More than 360 of the most prominent general counsel, senior in-house counsel and law firm partners celebrated the 2025 DFW Corporate Counsel Awards at the George W. Bush Institute. This was the ninth year that the Association of Corporate Counsel’s DFW Chapter and The Texas Lawbook partnered on the awards event. February 2, 2026Mark Curriden
  • Comerica Closes $10.9B Merger, Wins DFW Corp. Counsel Award for M&A Transaction of the Year - Fifth Third Bank's merger with Dallas-based Comerica was a complex mega-transaction put extraordinary pressure on the Comerica legal department, which was already being pushed to the limit on other matters. But the $10.9 billion transaction announced on Oct. 6 officially closed this morning at 12:02 a.m., a mere four months after the deal was announced. Citing their extraordinary accomplishments, the Association of Corporate Counsel’s DFW Chapter and The Texas Lawbook this past Thursday night honored the Comerica legal department and its outside counsel at Wachtell Lipton with the 2025 DFW M&A Transaction of the Year. February 1, 2026Allen Pusey & Mark Curriden

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Brent Bernell
Tyler Bexley
Shawn Blackburn
Michael Blankenship
Jeffrey Brill
Anita Brown
Ian Brown
Stuart Campbell
Jack Chadderdon
Paul Clement
Erin Nealy Cox
Scott Craig
Kevin Crews
Shamus Crosby
Hannah M. Crowe
Geoffrey Culbertson
Sean Cunningham
John Daywalt
Rajiv Dharnidharka
James Ducayet
Brian K. Erickson
Scott Everett
Weiru Fang
Elizabeth Freeman
Tad Freese
Melanie Fry
Geoff Gannaway
Paul Genender
John J. Gilluly III
Rodney Gilstrap
Andrew Gorham
John Greer
Joseph Grinstein
Matthew Haddad
Colleen Haile
Breen Haire
Shahmeer Halepota
Dionne Hamilton
Troy Harder
Rusty Hardin
Michael Hawes
Nathan Hecht
Stephen Hessler
Hillary Holmes
Marc Jaffe
Lauren Jenkins
David Jones
Atma Kabad
Susan Kennedy
David Kinder
Justin King
Allan Kirk
Melanie Koltermann
Doug Kubehl
Joe Laurel
Sang Lee
Steven Lockhart
Arthur Lotz
Barbara Lynn
Mike Lynn
Nora McGuffey
Stephanie McPhail
Mark Melton
Jeri Leigh Miller
Kimberly A. Moore
Mark Moore
Shelby Morgan
Alia Moses
Davis Mosmeyer III
Darren Nicholson
Eamon Nolan
Ivy Nowinski
Holland O’Neil
George Padis
Ian Peck
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Chase Proctor
Doug Rayburn
Joel Reese
Kevin Richardson
Andrew Rodheim
Seth Rubinson
Mazin Sbaiti
Ana Sanchez
Vincenzo Santini
Jeffrey Scharfstein
Robert Schroeder III
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Jonathon Soler
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Monica Uddin
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Rahul Vashi
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Sarah Walden
Kandace Walter
Kyle Watson
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Noël Wise
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Jackson Walker
King & Spalding
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Latham & Watkins
Lynn Pinker
Mayer Brown
MoloLamken
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Patton Tidwell Culbertson
Paul Hastings
Porter Hedges
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Reese Marketos
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