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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.

Energy Transfer Snares WTG Midstream for $3.25B

V&E advised Energy Transfer and Sidley assisted private equity-backed WTG on the deal, which expands the buyer's natural gas pipeline and processing network in the Permian Basin.

May 28, 2024 Claire Poole

CDT Roundup: 11 Deals, 11 Firms, 173 Lawyers, $5.5B

While the oil and gas business remains the endoskeleton of the Texas economy, oil and gas are currently living divergent performance experiences. Oil is experiencing boom times; natural gas, not so much. In such a market the semi-annual Haynes Boone borrowing base and price deck surveys can offer a valuable lenders'-eye view of the immediate future. The CDT Roundup mines the latest data, along with the usual survey of last week's Texas-related deals.

May 21, 2024 Claire Poole

Crescent Captures SilverBow Resources for $2.1B

Vinson & Elkins counseled Crescent, which counts KKR as a major investor, and Gibson Dunn advised SilverBow on the deal, which builds scale in South Texas' Eagle Ford shale.

May 16, 2024 Claire Poole

CDT Roundup: 22 Deals, 14 Firms, 227 Lawyers, $14.9B

The $6.2 billion take-private sale of Minnesota utility Allete to a joint venture of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Global Infrastructure Partners would be noteworthy if just for the price tag alone. But a closer look reveals a common bond among the lawyers involved that graduates from noteworthy to extraordinary. The Roundup's Claire Poole takes that closer look, along with her usual list of Texas-related transactions reported last week.

May 14, 2024 Claire Poole

CDT Roundup: 13 Deals, 9 Firms, 87 Lawyers, $3.1B

If you happen upon a bank transaction in Texas (or even if it's not in Texas) there are a couple of lawyers you figure know something about it: Sandy Brown at Alston & Bird in Dallas and Chet Fenimore at Fenimore Kay Harrison in Austin. So, when Texas Dow Employees Credit Union announced its purchase of Sabine State Bank, The Roundup turned to them. Turns out, one of them was involved. CDT notes on that involvement, as well as the work of 87 lawyers who advised on deals last week.

May 7, 2024 Claire Poole

Allete Agrees to $6.2B Buyout by CPPIB, GIP

Kirkland & Ellis counseled the acquiring consortium with a team led by corporate partners Melissa Kalka, Emily Lichtenheld and Andy Calder.

May 6, 2024 Claire Poole

CDT Roundup: 10 Deals, 6 Firms, 28 Lawyers, $6.7B

M&A is "slowly on the mend," according to a new PitchBook report on global M&A activity. But like most statements of fact these days, that may depend on your point of view. In the first three months of 2024, M&A is down from Q4 2023, but that's okay. That previous quarter contained a few blockbuster deals and set a record valuation for energy M&A. The CDT Roundup this week looks a bit closer at the PitchBook metrics and even closer at the transactions reported last week. There are a few numbers that may surprise you.

April 30, 2024 Claire Poole

CDT Roundup: 19 Deals, 11 Firms, 147 Lawyers, $16B

In addition to its usual fare, the CDT Roundup this week includes a quarterly accounting of the volume and value of deals Texas firms reported to us during the first 13 weeks of 2024. It turns out we've logged a lot of lawyer names. We have that number, too.

April 23, 2024 Claire Poole

CDT Roundup: 13 Deals, 9 Firms, 76 Lawyers, $9B

The Roundup swings its spotlight in a different direction this week to focus on the fund formation world and a young lawyer to be reckoned with, Simpson Thacher partner Linda Tieh. The Harvard-trained lawyer earned her undergrad degree from the University of Texas, holds bar cards in New York and Texas and finds herself front and center in some of the largest and most complicated deals we cover, including our largest transaction this week. Claire Poole has more on Tieh's remarkable resume of transactions, as well as the usual summary of last week's deals.

April 16, 2024 Claire Poole

Prysmian Picks up Encore Wire for $4.1B

The McKinney, Texas-based target is expected to expand the Italian cable maker further into North America. O'Melveny, with a group including Dallas attorneys, advised Encore Wire on the deal.

April 16, 2024 Claire Poole

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Tyler Bexley
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Michael Blankenship
Jeffrey Brill
Anita Brown
Ian Brown
Stuart Campbell
Jack Chadderdon
Paul Clement
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Scott Craig
Kevin Crews
Shamus Crosby
Hannah M. Crowe
Geoffrey Culbertson
Sean Cunningham
John Daywalt
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James Ducayet
Brian K. Erickson
Scott Everett
Weiru Fang
Elizabeth Freeman
Tad Freese
Melanie Fry
Geoff Gannaway
Paul Genender
John J. Gilluly III
Rodney Gilstrap
Andrew Gorham
John Greer
Joseph Grinstein
Matthew Haddad
Colleen Haile
Breen Haire
Shahmeer Halepota
Dionne Hamilton
Troy Harder
Rusty Hardin
Michael Hawes
Nathan Hecht
Stephen Hessler
Hillary Holmes
Marc Jaffe
Lauren Jenkins
David Jones
Atma Kabad
Susan Kennedy
David Kinder
Justin King
Allan Kirk
Melanie Koltermann
Doug Kubehl
Joe Laurel
Sang Lee
Steven Lockhart
Arthur Lotz
Barbara Lynn
Mike Lynn
Nora McGuffey
Stephanie McPhail
Mark Melton
Jeri Leigh Miller
Kimberly A. Moore
Mark Moore
Shelby Morgan
Alia Moses
Davis Mosmeyer III
Darren Nicholson
Eamon Nolan
Ivy Nowinski
Holland O’Neil
George Padis
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Chase Proctor
Doug Rayburn
Joel Reese
Kevin Richardson
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Jeffrey Scharfstein
Robert Schroeder III
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Robert Slovak
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Melissa R. Smith
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Craig Stanfield
Justin Stolte
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Monica Uddin
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