In addition to its usual fare, the CDT Roundup this week includes a quarterly accounting of the volume and value of deals Texas firms reported to us during the first 13 weeks of 2024. It turns out we’ve logged a lot of lawyer names. We have that number, too.
CDT Roundup: 13 Deals, 9 Firms, 76 Lawyers, $9B
The Roundup swings its spotlight in a different direction this week to focus on the fund formation world and a young lawyer to be reckoned with, Simpson Thacher partner Linda Tieh. The Harvard-trained lawyer earned her undergrad degree from the University of Texas, holds bar cards in New York and Texas and finds herself front and center in some of the largest and most complicated deals we cover, including our largest transaction this week. Claire Poole has more on Tieh’s remarkable resume of transactions, as well as the usual summary of last week’s deals.
Prysmian Picks up Encore Wire for $4.1B
The McKinney, Texas-based target is expected to expand the Italian cable maker further into North America. O’Melveny, with a group including Dallas attorneys, advised Encore Wire on the deal.
Jacqui Bogucki Returning to Weil
Jacqui Bogucki, a highly regarded transactional lawyer specializing in infrastructure deals, has left Simpson Thacher for Weil, Gotshal & Manges in Houston. She’s the fifth partner to join Weil’s Houston office in the last year.
CDT Roundup: 23 Deals, 14 Firms, 222 Lawyers, $22.6B
We know it’s routine for to push some older deals our way at the end of each quarter. Here at the CDT Roundup we sometimes imagine firms pulling out pockets and searching under seat cushions for league table qualifiers they might have missed. But sometimes in the late-arriving flotsam we find deal work worthy of mention, even though it has appeared on our doorstep a tad late. Such is the case of Justin Hoffman, a partner at Winston & Strawn in Houston, whose work leading more than a few capital markets transactions attracted our attention. We look at a few of those deals and a take in a few observations about his practice along with the usual summaries of last week’s transactions and the lawyers behind them.
Texas Leading Dealmakers — CDT List Names, Firms, Genders, Locations and More
Nearly 500 Texas lawyers led M&A transactions in 2023. The Texas Lawbook’s exclusive Corporate Deal Tracker has the complete list, ranking them by deal count and deal value, by law firm, city and gender. There are a few surprises, such as the number of associates who led or co-led mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures for buyers, sellers and targets. There are a few new names in the top 50, including at No. 1.
But the CDT lead dealmakers list provides some data that has become expected, including how a lot of the lead legal advisors work at only a handful of law firms or how the dealmakers in one city dominate all the other metros combined. And, of course, there is the issue of diversity — or lack thereof — of those who lead M&A transactions in Texas. This article documents the lead and co-lead Texas lawyers for buyers, sellers and targets and is the result of months of data research and reporting by Christi Trammell, Allen Pusey and Jeff Schnick. It was written by Mark Curriden.
Who the Hell is Kevin Henderson?
If ranking at the top of The Texas Lawbook’s deal lists pisses off a few lawyers at Big Law firms in Texas, Kevin Henderson can live with that. In a way, he planned on it. He closed 30 transactions last year in an M&A space most of them wouldn’t bother with, creating a space of his own with an unusual firm structured in an unusual way for an unusual market.
SLB Scoops Up ChampionX for $7.7B
Latham & Watkins was the main outside counsel advising SLB while Weil assisted ChampionX. The combination is expected to expand SLB’s presence in the less cyclical and growing production and recovery space.
CDT Roundup: 12 Deals, 8 Firms, 136 Lawyers, $9.3B
The end of Q1 this week suggests a healthy M&A market during the opening round of 2024, with deal volumes rising globally by 26 percent, with the U.S. volumes even high and topping the $400 billion value mark, according to data from Dealogic. Claire Poole examines the deals behind the data in this week’s CDT Roundup and reviews the Easter week action on the Texas M&A front.
CDT Roundup: 18 Deals, 17 Firms, 266 Lawyers, $5.5B
It was an unusual week for M&A, especially energy deals. Not just for the fact that there were so many of them, but for the fact that the flavor of the week was oilfield services. Claire Poole caught up with Gibson partner Gerry Spedale, who led the biggest deal reported last week for his longtime client Dril-Quip, a $1.5 billion merger agreement with Innovex Downhole Solutions. He shared a few insights on what is making energy M&A so attractive these days — and she shares her usual list of Texas-related deals.
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