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Claire Poole

Oil Patch Busts Out With $12.8B Pair Of Deals Involving Seven Texas Law Firms

Australian mining giant BHP Billiton announced it sold its U.S. shale properties for $10.8 billion in cash.

The buyers were BP, which picked up BHP’s Eagle Ford, Haynesville and Permian properties under unit Petrohawk Energy for $10.5 billion; and Merit Energy, whose unit MMGJ Hugoton III agreed to acquire BHP’s Fayetteville Shale assets for $300 million.

July 27, 2018 Claire Poole

2018: So Far, So Good; But Why Only ‘Good’?

January 2018 was greeted by stable energy markets, pent-up private equity and a spanking new investor-friendly tax law. That sounds like the elements of a record year, right?

July 25, 2018 Claire Poole

CDT Weekly Roundup: 15 Firms, 60 Lawyers, 13 Deals Worth $2.13B

Deal activity among Texas lawyers last week was dominated by transactions in the energy sector, from exploration and production assets changing hands to the continued consolidation of the oilfield services industry.

July 23, 2018 Claire Poole

Corporate Lawyers Lateral = Billions of Dollars of Legal Work on the Move

When star Houston corporate lawyer Sean Wheeler moved his law practice to Kirkland & Ellis last week, he likely took his book of business with him. During the past 18 months, Wheeler led or co-led 29 M&A and capital markets deals worth a combined $14.3 billion.
A Texas Lawbook investigative report found that at least 84 prominent dealmaking lawyers in Texas jumped to new law firms since Jan. 1, 2017. Those lawyers handled hundreds of deals valued at nearly $200 billion, according to the Corporate Deal Tracker. The Texas Lawbook has exclusive details.

July 19, 2018 Claire Poole

CDT Weekly Roundup: 14 Deals Worth $5.37B at a Time of $1.09T in Private Equity Money Out There Looking for a Home

There’s a whole lot of private equity money out there. At the end of June, according to data from Preqin, alternative investment firms worldwide had $1.8 trillion in “dry powder.” All that available cash has slowed down capital raisings in the first half of this year. But investment activity continues, a chunk of it creating work for transactional lawyers in

July 17, 2018 Claire Poole

U.S. Oil & Gas Acquisition Activity Falters in Q2 – But Maybe Not For Long

Oil and gas M&A transactions in the U.S. dropped in the second quarter, well below quarterly averages experienced since 2009, even as global activity blossomed. The reasons may, in part, be structural; but they also may be temporary, according to Drillinginfo. Claire Poole explains in The Texas Lawbook.

July 11, 2018 Claire Poole

Kirkland Steals Capital Markets Leader In Houston

The Kirkland & Ellis hiring rampage in Texas continued Tuesday. The Chicago-based firm is once again revealing its deep pockets by luring one of the nation’s leading capital markets legal advisors to leave the Houston office of Latham & Watkins, where he is reportedly one of the firm’s highest paid partners. Kirkland, which only opened in Texas four years ago, now has nearly 150 lawyers operating in the state. The Texas Lawbook has the details.

July 10, 2018 Claire Poole

CDT Weekly Roundup: 16 Deals Worth $11.2B At A Busy Time For IPOs

There are lots of reasons, but IPO’s are starting to pop up again in Texas dealmaking. A California oil and gas explorer and producer recently filed for an IPO in which Texas lawyers are involved. And last week a big Texas computer maker announced a deal that will take it public again – and make its billionaire CEO even richer. Claire Poole has all details on those deals and more in The Texas Lawbook.

July 9, 2018 Claire Poole

CDT Weekly Roundup: 13 Deals Worth $7B In A Brisk World M&A Market

For the first half of the year, more than $2.35 trillion in M&A transactions have been reported globally – a record pace – thanks to economic growth, low interest rates, technology shifts and the Trump-driven tax cuts, according to analysts. And Texas attorneys benefitted last week to the tune of 13 deals worth $7 billion. Claire Poole has the particulars in her weekly Corporate Deal Tracker Roundup.

July 3, 2018 Claire Poole

Report: Private Equity-Driven Mid-Market M&A Remains Strong

Private equity-related M&A activity in the middle market – transactions valued at $10 million to $250 million – remains strong, with debt available to support deals and valuations climbing for

June 29, 2018 Claire Poole

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  • P.S. — New State Bar President Launches Campaign to Fund Legal Aid for Low-Income Texans  - When speaking to fellow lawyers, Santos Vargas often asks them a question to illustrate a point. “How many of you could hire yourselves for a protracted legal dispute?” The point is that many people don’t have the financial means to hire a lawyer when faced with a legal problem, which is why the newly minted State Bar of Texas president is on a campaign to raise money for low-income Texans to access legal services. Vargas aims to raise $300,000, with July donations supporting victims of the recent Texas Hill Country flood.  July 11, 2025Krista Torralva

GCs, Lawyers & Firms

  • Beck Redden Bolsters Appellate Group With Hire From Troutman Pepper Locke - Beck Redden announced this week the hiring of Chris Dove, who focuses on commercial litigation in the energy, financial services and maritime sectors. He had spent more than two decades practicing at Troutman Pepper Locke and Locke Lord.
  • McGuireWoods Names Tyler VanHoutan as New Houston Office Managing Partner
  • Reed Smith Beefs Up Global Regulatory Enforcement Group, Hires V&E Partner 
  • Rey Anaya Valencia Begins Deanship at South Texas College of Law Houston
  • Willkie Adds Blake Winburne to its Houston Office
  • Hines CLO Joins Greenberg Traurig in Houston
  • Thomas Verity Vaults to Norton Rose Fulbright
  • Veteran Houston Partner Jumps from Latham to Simpson
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