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With 799 deals in just the first six months of this year, and nearly a trillion dollars in value attached to those transactions, Texas lawyers advised on everything from data centers to drill pads. At the center of it all sits the Texas Triangle of Austin, Dallas and Houston, where energy, software and finance all vying for attention.
The state’s largest cities are locked in their classic M&A arms race and the lawyers in the two cities are playing a different game in the first half of 2026 when it comes to billion-dollar deals.
The Texas Lawbook's exclusive Corporate Deal Tracker breaks down the lawyers who lead the most megadeals for the first six months of the year.
The Texas Lawbook is kicking off 1H 2026 rankings with a look at billion-plus M&A through our Corporate Deal Tracker rankings, highlighting the firms that have dominated the first six months of the year. And shocker, the ampersands continue to impress.
Against the backdrop of SpaceX’s long-awaited public debut last month and a potential reopening of the IPO window in capital markets, Texas is testing whether its economic strength can be matched by financial market depth.
The Texas Lawbook caught up with Carlos Pena of Texas Capital to discuss how extended private lifecycles, the evolving IPO windows and Texas’ legal and governance frameworks are reshaping capital formation.
We may be only a halfway through 2026, but the megadeal scoreboard is already starting to look like a final season tally.
The Texas Lawbook's exclusive Corporate Deal Tracker breaks down the first half activity for 2026 for deals valued at $1 billion or more.
This week, The Texas Lawbook takes another historic look at M&A activity through our annual CDT rankings, highlighting the firms that have shaped the dealmaking landscape year by year. These leaderboards reflect the volume and significance of transactions handled by the firms going back to 2018, offering a clear view of how the competitive field has evolved over time.
Polsinelli added veteran healthcare lawyer Muthuramanan “Ramana” Rameswaran as a shareholder late last month in its Dallas office as part of the firm’s ongoing national expansion of the practice area.
The Texas Lawbook caught up with Rameswaran about his move to Polsinelli, the trends he’s seeing and more.
At the request of multiple firms and dealmakers over 10 months, The Texas Lawbook is now introducing funding league tables alongside our existing Corporate Deal Tracker rankings. Readers can find the firm and individual dealmaker funding rankings in this story, along with updated 2025 CDT rankings for M&A and CapM that hadn't yet been shared beyond The Lawbook's the Sunday CDT newsletter.
Almost a year after the deadly flash flood on the Guadalupe River that killed more than two dozen campers and staff, Camp Mystic has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the Southern District of Texas.
The case has been assigned to Bankruptcy Judge Christopher M. Lopez. First-day documents were filed by Martin Sosland, a Dallas partner with Vartabedian Katz Hester & Haynes.
Allison K. Perry has joined Bracewell’s tax department as a partner in the Houston office. The move marks a return to Bracewell for Perry after serving at Shell in-house as the energy giant’s U.S. lead employment tax counsel.
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