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Claire Poole

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

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: 21 Deals, 17 Firms, 165 Lawyers, $11.6B

CERAWeek, the prestigious Houston energy confab, wrapped up last week. One of the more significant observations emerged from former Goldman Sachs analyst Arjun Murti, now a partner at Veritan. He thinks, for instance, it's time for the term "energy transition" to transition from a political Rorschach test to something more universal, understandable and verifiable. Claire Poole reflects on a few of his other observations in this week's CDT Roundup, along with the usual rollcall of deals and dealmakers who reported for duty during last week.

Claire Poole

CDT Roundup: 20 Deals, 11 Firms, 228 Lawyers, $9.7B

The $2.5 billion acquisition of Ranger Oil by Calgary-based Baytex Energy marked the first merger of public upstream companies in almost a year. If there's a renewed public-public phase of consolidation among small-to-mid-cap producers in the offing, there may be evidence of such in the Ranger-Baytex deal. The CDT Roundup explores the merger, along with the usual weekly listing of the deals reported by Texas lawyers.

Claire Poole

CDT Roundup: 13 Deals, 14 Firms, 130 Lawyers, $5.4B

Regrouping is a powerful incentive for many M&A deals. This week's Roundup looks at a couple at a couple of billion-dollar energy transactions that should have come as no surprise for that reason. Also, a quick look at the recent work of Stephen Noh, a former sports management major who now plies his eye for detail to million dollar deals at Kirkland. And, of course, there's the usual roster of Texas lawyers who worked on last week's reported transactions.

Claire Poole

CDT Roundup: 14 Deals, 12 Firms, 158 Lawyers, $5.7B

This week the CDT Roundup gives a tip of the hat to Winston & Strawn's Mike Blankenship, who has begun the first two months of 2023 on fire in what has become a rare form transaction: the traditional IPO. More on that, as well as the week's roundup of Texas-related transactions.

Claire Poole

CDT Roundup: 16 Deals, 12 Firms, 137 Lawyers, $12.1B

Are IPOs on their way back? If the first few weeks of 2023 are any indication, the answer depends on your point of reference: Maybe. Or sort of. Or hope so. After a lackluster 2022 when markets were pestered by war, inflation and defensiveness, a new study by Fidelity Investments suggests a modest rebound may be on the horizon. The CDT Roundup looks at the stats, as well as the cast of lawyers and firms behind 16 deals reported last week.

Claire Poole

CDT Roundup: 7 Deals, 7 Firms, 75 Lawyers, $2.2B

At best, 2022 was a mixed year for upstream M&A across the U.S., according to Enverus Intelligence Research. The numbers looked big, $58 billion across 160 deals. But the reality is that they were down, particularly in deal count, even when compared to pre-pandemic averages. The CDT Roundup takes a look at a few companies whose deals defined and, in some ways, defied the market, as well as the law firms that are advising them. Of course, there is the usual roundup of last week's transactions.

Claire Poole

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