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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: 14 Deals, 6 Firms, 92 Lawyers, $2.5B

Clay Brett arrived in May at the Houston offices of Baker Botts with a deep résumé: partner and GC at a private investment firm, Willkie and Bracewell alum. Since then he's been busy. Very busy. In a Q&A with the Lawbook's Claire Poole, Brett describes his decision to join Baker Botts, the bifurcated presence (long and short) of private equity in the energy spaces and dealmaking the energy storage space. That, along with the usual list of deals and fundings reported by Texas lawyers last week.

Claire Poole

CDT Roundup: 17 Deals, 13 Firms, 202 Lawyers, $12.2B

The heat is on in Texas, in more ways than one. It's no secret that record summer temperatures have tested the durability of the state's electric grid; but lesser known is its growing dependence on alternative energy transmissions to meet this year's extraordinary demand. Wind and solar, however, are only as dependable as the ability to store the energy they produce, and the CDT Roundup this week looks at the growing number of deals involving utility-scale battery storage sector which have, if you'll pardon the expression, become very hot.

Claire Poole

CDT Roundup: 19 Deals, 13 Firms, 213 Lawyers, $11.5B

Who are the leading law firms in global M&A? Not necessarily who you thought they were. This week's CDT Roundup features the top-ranked M&A firms in a recent PitchBook list for Q2. There's that, and the usual listing of Texas deals reported last week, led by three deals of more than $1 billion, including a $7.2 billion bolt-on acquisition by Energy Transfer.

Claire Poole

CDT Roundup: 19 Deals, 13 Firms, 184 Lawyers, $9.7B

Of course, having noted the continued primacy of the energy industry in Texas dealmaking of late, we hit a week when there are none. Moreover, capital markets came roaring back last week with a dozen deals reported, the most reported for a single week in more than two years. Claire Poole takes a closer look at those deals and the lawyers behind them this week in the CDT Roundup.

Claire Poole

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