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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: 10 Deals; 12 Firms; 59 Lawyers; $2.24B

There is a bevy of reasons that carve-outs have become scarce of late — pandemic, inflation, war, etc. But the underlying reasons for carve-outs remain, even if the market is momentarily sparse. The CDT Roundup explores last week's deals, which include a carve-out, as well as a few of the obstacles that put the wider market on pause.

April 27, 2022 Claire Poole

Christopher Peponis Leaves White & Case for Latham

One of the project partner's recent notable deals was advising Vitol on a 10-year, $12 billion contract to buy LNG from Houston-based Tellurian.

April 19, 2022 Claire Poole

CDT Roundup: 11 Deals; 7 Firms; 156 Lawyers; $6.6B

Upstream deals have flourished in the first quarter of 2022, according to data from Enverus. Compared to the same stretch in 2021 they've more than tripled in value. And there are more deals out there, just waiting for commodity prices to stabilize. More on that possibility, along with last week's transactions, in the CDT Roundup.

April 19, 2022 Claire Poole

CDT Roundup: 17 Deals; 14 Firms; 184 Lawyers; $4.4B

Sarah McLean has been busy, to say the least. The Shearman & Sterling partner has advised on at least four energy transactions so far this year. Find out about what McLean thinks about the current climate for private equity and see who is leading the week's deals on the Corporate Deal Tracker.

April 12, 2022 Claire Poole

CDT Roundup: 11 Deals, 8 Firms, 65 Lawyers, $3.2B

Following a seeming renaissance in 2021, IPO activity seems to have slowed thus far in 2022, according to several indicators. Still, Texas dealmakers say they expect the IPO markets to stay healthy — particularly in the energy industry. The CDT Roundup has some numbers, as well as last week's deals and the names of lawyers behind them.

March 29, 2022 Claire Poole

On Rising Interest Rates: ‘Drivers of Deals are Still Present’

The Texas Lawbook asked a half dozen lawyers how the Fed's move to raise interest rates Wednesday will impact M&A and the capital markets in Texas.

March 17, 2022 Claire Poole

Band Pro Hac Vice Wins for Second Time at Law Rocks Houston

The event, which raised money for charity, featured performers from Akin Gump, Locke Lord, Latham & Watkins and Greenberg Traurig.

March 11, 2022 Claire Poole

Oasis Merges with Whiting Petroleum in $6B Deal

Kirkland and V&E advised the oil companies on the combination, which promises to generate enhanced free cash flow to return to shareholders.

March 7, 2022 Claire Poole

Chevron Buys Renewable Energy Group for $3.15B

Leading the legal team from Chevron is Siva Barnwell Adams, managing counsel in the major transactions law group at Chevron Upstream in Houston.

February 28, 2022 Claire Poole

Celanese Picks Up Materials Business from DuPont for $11B

Texas lawyers from Kirkland and Gibson Dunn advised the Dallas buyer on acquiring the business, which represented $3.5 billion of net sales and $800 million in operating earnings last year.

February 18, 2022 Claire Poole

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  • Daria Russell Has Helped Mattress Firm Navigate a Decade of Highs and Lows - Daria Russell has experienced a lot since she joined the legal team at Houston-based Mattress Firm in 2015 — more than a dozen M&A transactions, including a 2016 $3.8 billion merger, a crippling accounting scandal involving the company’s former corporate parent, a subsequent 2018 multibillion-dollar corporate bankruptcy and then a $5 billion merger with Tempur Sealy that closed earlier this year. In May, Mattress Firm rewarded Russell for her decade of extraordinary legal work by promoting her to general counsel, overseeing five in-house lawyers, two health and safety professionals and seven loss-prevention contractors. Russell, like most corporate chief legal officers, is dealing with issues ranging from artificial intelligence and intellectual property rights and data privacy issues to ESG compliance and everything digital. September 7, 2025Mark Curriden
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