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Claire Poole

Claire Poole is a senior writer at The Texas Lawbook, where she covers corporate transactions.

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Claire Poole

Claire Poole is a business writer based in Houston. She previously was a senior writer at The Deal, where she spent 16 years covering mergers and acquisitions, private equity and investing in the energy sector. Before The Deal, she worked as a reporter and staff writer at Forbes, was editor of El Financiero International and Mexico Business and was a contributing editor at LatinTrade. She also contributed articles to Money, Worth, BusinessWeek and Texas Monthly.

Claire’s email is claire.poole@texaslawbook.net.

CDT Roundup: 15 Deals, 13 Firms, 146 Lawyers, $6.1B

Two Texas buddies from high school and college have made millions together in the oil & gas business under the name Double Eagle. In fact, they’re still making deals. The CDT Roundup details their latest venture, as well as the deals reported by Texas lawyers last week.

June 28, 2022 Claire Poole

CDT Roundup: 17 Deals, 12 Firms, 228 Lawyers, $11.9B

Dealmaking is hard enough in the simplest of times. Try putting one together when you’re in the process of changing firms. Angela Olivarez did exactly that, pulling off a complex technology deal while switching from Willkie to O’Melveny. Read what she tells the CDT Roundup about the experience, along with the usual list of last week’s Texas-made deals.

June 21, 2022 Claire Poole

Latham Aids Natgas Processor Lucid on Sale to Targa for $3.55B

V&E advised the buyer, who plans to fund the purchase using available cash and debt within its targeted leverage ratio.

June 16, 2022 Claire Poole

V&E Counsels Hamm on $25B Bid to Take Continental Resources Private

The firm has long advised the company. Harold Hamm’s offer represents a nearly 10 percent premium over Continental’s closing price yesterday.

June 14, 2022 Claire Poole

CDT Roundup: 17 Deals, 12 Firms, 123 Lawyers, $7.6B

With oil and gas prices high, older established fields are seeing a renaissance. That may explain recent deals involving North Dakota’s Williston Basin. This week’s CDT Roundup looks at what makes the Williston attractive, along with the firms and lawyers involved in deals there and elsewhere.

June 14, 2022 Claire Poole

CDT Roundup: 9 Deals, 11 Firms, 86 Lawyers, $3.2B

Last week brought a surprise: James Chenoweth, one of the most active tax advisors in Texas M&A, left Gibson Dunn. The bigger surprise is where he went. The CDT Roundup has that, and the usual roster of the week’s Texas dealmakers.

May 31, 2022 Claire Poole

TotalEnergies Buys Half of GIP’s stake in Clearway for $1.6B

The consideration includes giving the infrastructure fund a stake in SunPower. Texas lawyers from Latham advised on the deal.

May 26, 2022 Claire Poole

CDT Roundup: 14 Deals, 12 Firms, 185 Lawyers, $7.3B

Last week saw something not seen for awhile: the IPO debut of an oilfield services company. The $288 million deal was a bit below target, but it may have signaled investor interest in something too often unfamiliar in the industry: capital discipline. The CDT Roundup has details on that deal, as well as the usual weekly deal rosters.

May 24, 2022 Claire Poole

Centennial scoops up Colgate for $3.9B

Texas lawyers from Latham and Kirkland worked on the deal, which the parties claim will create the largest pure-play exploration and production company in the Permian’s Delaware Basin.

May 19, 2022 Claire Poole

CDT Roundup: 11 Deals, 9 Firms, 80 Lawyers, $532M

A volatile stock market has economists uttering the “R” word: Recession. And while most analysts are discounting the likelihood of full-blown downturn, Andrew Akers of PitchBook has three scenarios that could affect dealmaking for the near future. Those possibilities, and a review of last week’s deals in the CDT Roundup.

May 17, 2022 Claire Poole

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Allegion
American Airlines
Ashford
AZA
Baker Botts
Bell Nunnally
BHP
Blueknight
Bracewell
Cardinal Midstream 
Citi Private Bank
Convene
Crescent Energy
Dykema
EnCap Flatrock
EN Engineering
Enoch Kever
Ergon
FBFK
Gibson Dunn
Gray Reed
Harrison Steck
Hilcorp
Hines
Holland & Knight
Hunton AK
Huntsman
Jackson Walker
Jones Day
K&L Gates
Kelly Hart
Kirkland
Kizzia Johnson
Lehotsky Keller
Locke Lord
Lynn Pinker
Mary Kay
McGuireWoods
Medical Informatics
Miller Bryant
Munck Wilson
Munsch Hardt
Norton Rose Fulbright
O'Melveny
Pan Capital Management
Phillips 66
Pillsbury
Precisely
Remington Hotels
Rogge Dunn Group
Schlumberger
Sentry Center Holdings
Shearman & Sterling
Shell 
Sheppard Mullin
Sidley
Siltstone Capital
Simpson Thacher
Stanley Access
Sun Communities
TG Advisers
TotalEnergies
V&E
Weil
White & Case

Lawyers in the News

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Will Anderson
Larry Barden
Will Becker
Lisa Bennett
Kathleen Bertolatus
David Beveridge
Jeff Brooker
Alaina Brooks
Shonn Brown
Brad Butwin
Andy Calder
Chrysta Castaneda
Matt Cavenaugh
Jeff Cody
Wade Cooper
Mike Considine
Jay Cuclis
Josh Davidson
Trey DeLoach
Tess Dennis
Alyssa Desgranges-Ellett
Michelle Earley
Adam Endick
Kimberly Fitzpatrick
Keith Fullenweider
Paul Genender
Doug Getten
Catharine Hansard
Clifford Harrison
Henry Havre
Kyle Hawkins
Ashley Hill
Allyson Ho
Brad Honeycutt
Michael Hurst
Scott Keller
Mehdi Khodadad
Brad Kizzia
Peter Kosydar
Chris Kratovil
Melissa Lorber
Todd Lowther
John Martin
Cynthia Martinez
Greg McAllister
Sarah McLean
Harriet Miers
Rob Miller
Yvette Ostolaza
Scott Parel
Andrew Piel
Veronica Polnick
Robert Rabalais
Dianne Ralston
David Rassin
Doug Rayburn
Courtney Roane
Whit Roberts
Anna Rotman
Casey Shaw
Bo Shi
Julia Simon
Rachael L. Smiley
Macey Reasoner Stokes
David Stryker
Saba Syed
Theresa Terrell
Travis Torrence
Tyler Vinal
Cliff Vrielink
Dale Wainwright
Mani Walia
Rob Walters
Jonathan Whalen
Kelsi White
Wesley Williams
Angela Zambrano
Kent Zimmermann

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