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For the week ended May 16, the CDT Roundup reported on 12 deals – eight of which were in capital markets – with a total value of about $6 billion, which are both down from the prior week's 21 deals valued at $11.3 billion.
Despite the light slate, last week's transactions were dominated by energy of all kinds.
Fervo Energy believes it can make carbon-free geothermal power a foundational component of the global energy system. The Houston company said horizontal drilling, fiber-optic sensing and advanced reservoir engineering have allowed it to establish a repeatable, industrial approach to building firm, utility-scale power.
Dario Mendoza has joined Baker Botts in Dallas as a partner in the firm’s executive compensation and employee benefits practice after more than 15 years at Vinson & Elkins across town.
Baker Botts said Mendoza advises companies, private equity firms, boards, compensation committees and executive teams on compensation and benefits. His work spans tax, securities law, corporate governance and disclosure considerations associated with these arrangements.
Blackstone and Halliburton agreed to invest $1 billion in VoltaGrid, a Houston company that provides power generation, portable power, CNG fuel supply, infrastructure and energy management services. VoltaGrid also is acquiring Propell Energy Technology, a Granbury manufacturer of oilfield and well-servicing equipment.
Kirkland & Ellis and Sidley Austin are advising VoltaGrid, while Simpson Thacher is advising Blackstone.
For the week ended May 9, the CDT Roundup is reporting 21 deals valued at nearly $11.3 billion. And that doesn't include a $3.25 billion notes offering that closed three weeks ago nor the $56 billion unsolicitied offer for eBay by $11 billion-market-cap GameStop scooped by The Wall Street Journal last week.
White & Case is advising Grapevine-based GameStop, with a team led from New York. GameStop's general counsel is Mark Robinson, who received the 2023 DFW Corporate Counsel Award for General Counsel of the Year for a Small Legal Department.
That and more in this edition of CDT Roundup.
Western Midstream Partners has acquired Brazos Delaware II, a Fort Worth-based private gathering and processing platform in the Delaware Basin in West Texas, for about $1.6 billion in cash and stock. Western Midstream, which is based in The Woodlands, said it will pay about $800 million in cash and issue about $800 million in common units at the close of the deal that is expected by June 30.
Christopher B. Dial is Western Midstream’s general counsel, and Troutman Pepper Locke advised the company with a national team led by Houston Partners Jon Daly and Jennie Simmons. Vinson & Elkins served as outside legal advisor to Brazos.
Lisa Staler Gallerano is returning to private practice after nearly a decade in-house, joining BakerHostetler’s Dallas office as of counsel in the firm’s litigation practice group. Gallerano also will be a member of the firm’s commercial litigation team.
Clifford Chance has named J. Laurens Wilkes a partner in its Houston office and global head of infrastructure disputes.
The firm also appointed Caitlin Gernert as a Houston partner, adding further depth to its infrastructure, energy and construction litigation team.
W. Andrew Lanius is joining A&O Shearman in its energy, natural resources and infrastructure practice in Houston and will serve as the head of U.S. energy and infrastructure finance. He comes to A&O from Simpson Thacher & Barlett where he was a partner in that firm's banking and credit practice.
Dallas data center development and investment platform Related Digital secured financing for its $16 billion campus in Saline Township, Michigan, being built for Oracle.
Kirkland & Ellis advised Related Digital with a team that included Julian Seiguer, Mary Kogut and William Zakhary in Houston with Ieuan List in Austin and Max Baird in Dallas.
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