Claire Poole

Investment banking stalwarts Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan were the top financial advisors on deals involving Texas companies in the first half, according to Mergermarket data provided exclusively to The Texas Lawbook.

Three deals totaling $7.3 billion announced within 24 hours of each other show that dealmaking is picking up in the oil and gas sector. Two involved midstream assets and the other involved oil and gas properties in the Midland Basin of West Texas.

In his first in-depth interview since the move, Wheeler talks about why he joined Kirkland, what he aims to accomplish and how he sees the M&A and capital markets landscapes shaking out for the energy industry.

The deal spigot was full-blast this past week, with 16 transactions announced worth $68.6 billion – a weekly record for the year. Eleven law firms and 106 lawyers in Texas were involved.

Private equity firm First Reserve said Monday it agreed to sell Deep Gulf Energy Cos. to publicly traded Kosmos Energy for $1.225 billion, signifying the buyer’s entry into the Gulf of Mexico. Claire Poole has the rundown.

(Aug. 3) – In the first half of 2018, the top 30 M&A transactions involving Texas-headquartered companies were pretty big deals. That’s not a big surprise. The surprise is how

It is one of the largest simplification transactions in the oil and gas midstream industry.

Deal activity this past week came close to the 2018 record. Helped along by BHP Billiton’s massive sale of its U.S. shale assets to BP and Merit Energy for $10.8 billion, the deal activity reached $15.1 billion.

Texas lawyers from four different law firms were involved in two energy infrastructure-related deals announced Monday that together amounted to nearly $2.3 billion.

Even for a 2018 characterized by shake-ups – firm mergers, office openings, lateral raids – the changes at the top of the first-half M&A legal advisor charts are remarkable. V&E dropped. Kirkland ascended. And two national firms with no presence in Texas took the top deal value spots.