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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.

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.”

July 5, 2024 Claire Poole

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.

July 2, 2024 Claire Poole

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.

June 27, 2024 Claire Poole

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.

June 26, 2024 Claire Poole

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.

June 25, 2024 Claire Poole

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.

June 18, 2024 Claire Poole

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.

June 11, 2024 Claire Poole

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.

June 4, 2024 Claire Poole

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.

June 3, 2024 Claire Poole

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.

May 29, 2024 Claire Poole

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  • Maverick Natural Resources’ Sarah Payne is ‘Like Having a Cheat Code Against the Other Side’ - Sarah Payne went to college and graduate school to be a journalist covering the music industry with the dream of writing for Rolling Stone. Her father, then a Houston trial lawyer, had other ideas. “I was worn down by my tenacious father over the course of two decades,” Payne told The Texas Lawbook. “My entering the profession was likely inescapable. It’s in my veins for better or worse." Payne recently led her employer, Maverick Natural Resources, to a huge courtroom victory after a four-year contract dispute with XTO Energy regarding revenue sharing as part of a joint venture. Citing the jury trial success, the Association of Corporate Counsel’s Houston Chapter and The Lawbook named Payne the 2025 Houston Corporate Counsel Award recipient for Senior Counsel of the Year for a Small Legal Department. May 5, 2025Mark Curriden & Jason Philyaw
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Lawyers in the News

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Reem Abdelrazik
Doug Bacon
Harry Beaudry
Jonathan Benloulou
Gene Besen
Doug Bland
Jacqui Bogucki
Vera De Brito de Gyarfas
David Buck
Nora Burke
T.J. Campbell
Wayne Chan
Michael Considine
Mogan Copher
James Cowen
Kevin Crews
Samantha Crispin
Dawud Crooms
Shamus Crosby
Clint Culpepper
Brock Degeyter
Nick Dhesi
William Eiland
Austin Elam
Miles Emery
Bill Finnegan
David Gail
Adam Garmezy
Sami Ghubril
Breen Haire
Kim Hicks
J. Dean Hinderliter
Nicole Islinger
James Johnston
Atma Kabad
John Kaercher
Erin Kaufman
Paul Kukish
Thomas Laughlin
Oscar Fernando Leija
Emily Lichtenheld
Rob Little
Ryan Logan
Bryan Loocke
Katy Lukaszewski
Ryan Lynch
Ryan Maierson
Benjamin J. Martin
Madeline McCune
Sean McFarlane
Richard McGee
Sarah McLean
Sameer Mohan
Andrew Monk
Charlie Ofner
Stephen Olson
Joe Orien
Zach Parker
John Pitts
Benjamin Potter
Brendan Quigley
Kevin Richardson
Alex Robertson
Jason Rocha
Julian Seiguer
Mark Sloan
Chad Smith
Lande Spottswood
John Stribling
Vanessa Sutherland
Tanner Sykes
Martha Todd
Michael Vardanian
Thomas Verity
Douglas Warner
Kyle Watson
Luke Weedon
John Wetwiska
Sean Wheeler
Debbie Yee

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Akin
Baker Botts
Bracewell
Haynes Boone
Holland & Knight
Kirkland & Ellis
Latham & Watkins
Morgan Lewis
Pillsbury
Porter Hedges
Sheppard Mullin
Sidley
Simpson Thacher
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Weil
White & Case
Willkie

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