Iconic Texas Department Store Chain Neiman Marcus Sold to Saks for $2.65B
Willkie Farr advised the buyer while Sullivan & Cromwell assisted the Dallas-based seller, which Vogue once noted, "is Texas with a French accent."
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: 14 Deals, 16 Firms, 224 Lawyers, $8.2B
The Corporate Deal Tracker has noticed an uptick in capital transactions over the past few weeks. One firm that seems to be getting its share of CapM deals is Baker Botts. In June alone, BB reported more than $4 billion in 10 capital markets transactions. Claire Poole takes a look at the lawyers behind the action at BB, along with her usual summary of Texas-related deals and the lawyers behind them.
XCL Sheds Uinta Basin Assets to SM Energy, NOG for $2.55B
Kirkland & Ellis counseled SM Energy and NOG while Vinson & Elkins advised XCL on the deal, which marks both buyers' entry into the area.
A&O Shearman’s Dallas Team Leads AI SPAC Deal
Dallas lawyers from A&O Shearman counseled Nidar, a data center provider for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing in India.
CDT Roundup: 12 Deals, 8 Firms, 137 Lawyers, $5.7B
Thomas Laughlin is one busy dude. Trinity Hunt Partners helps keep him that way. The CDT Roundup this week takes a deeper look at what Trinity and Laughlin, a Dallas-based Kirkland PE partner, have been up to, of late. There's that, and the usual summaries of transactions reported last week along with the firms and lawyers who worked them. But brace yourself; the list will be, shall we say, a brief read.
CDT Roundup: 13 Deals, 16 Firms, 214 Lawyers, $9.9B
There were three billion-dollar transactions last week: a shale E&P deal, an offshore drilling acquisition and a midstream divestiture. All were in energy, but they had something else in common: they are part of an on-going consolidation in nearly every phase of energy production. The CDT Roundup takes a look at what these latest deals tell us, along with the usual summation of last week's transactions and the lawyers and firms behind them.
CDT Roundup: 19 Deals, 13 Firms, 239 Lawyers, $23.9B
Over the last few years, this space has seen more than a few deals involving Morgan Lewis Houston partner Jeff Dinerstein and his client Park Lawn, Inc., the Toronto-based purveyor of funerals, cremations and such. With the news this week that Park Lawn has agreed to be acquired for $1.2 billion, the CDT Roundup decided to review a few of Dinerstein's deals. And, of course, we include the usual summary of the lawyers and firms behind transactions reported last week.
CDT Roundup: 12 Deals, 11 Firms, 147 Lawyers, $34.5B
The ongoing once-in-a-generation wave of oil & gas consolidation has gained serious momentum, as witnessed by the $22.5 billion merger agreement reached last week between ConocoPhillips and Marathon Oil. What's driving it? The Roundup's Claire Poole tops off her weekly summary of Texas-related dealmaking with a roundup of factors behind the recent proliferation of big energy deals, and takes a bonus look at the prospect that they could lead to more.
Waste Management Picks up Stericycle for $7.2B
The garbage giant tapped Vinson & Elkins and Baker Botts and the target used Latham & Watkins. The deal is expected to broaden the scope of the Houston-based buyer's service offerings.
CDT Roundup: 13 Deals, 15 Firms, 171 Lawyers, $9.7B
We’re more used to writing about semiconductor chips than corn chips, but this week the CDT has the pleasure of highlighting the ones you stick in salsa. Yes, it’s a PE deal involving one of our favorites, And you can enjoy it alongside our usual review of last week’s dealmaking.
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