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Davis Polk provided counsel to a Bumble special committee from New York, Washington, D.C. and London. Houston employee benefits partner Justin Coddington was the lone Texas attorney on a Kirkland & Ellis national team of about three dozen lawyers that advised Ithaca Holdings.
The 11 deals valued at $16.4 billion reported last week amounted to an average week on the year. But as the second highest value since early August, it may be a signal that uncertain deal markets are returning to 'normal' — whatever that is in a topsy-turvy year.
The acquisition — advised by Gibson Dunn, Milbank and Latham & Watkins — opens the door for the company's Starlink network to connect directly with cellular customers. And compete directly with cellular providers like Verizon and AT&T.
Texas lawyers expect a busy final three months of 2026, according to panelists at the UT Law M&A Institute on Thursday.
The deal signals Devon’s effective exit from the Eagle Ford to focus on the Permian Basin. Latham & Watkins and Vinson & Elkins served as outside legal advisors for Crescent, while Kirkland & Ellis represented Devon.
Gov. Greg Abbott has directed the TCEQ to stop issuing permits for data center projects statewide — including those not connected to the ERCOT grid — until ERCOT finishes a broader audit expected to wrap up in mid-December. The order may reach beyond data center developers themselves to affiliated power-generation projects, and attorneys say its scope leaves open questions about how it applies to lower-tier permitting processes.
Energy Transfer said Vaquero has enough acreage to support another two trains that could boost capacity to about 1.2 billion cubic feet a day. Sidley repped ET and Willkie guided Vaquero on the deal.
The week ending Oct. 3 saw 14 deals valued at a bit over $4 billion, featuring the usual menu of power and infrastructure deals. It was a week without a banner transaction — made extraordinary by its adequacy in head-scratching times.
As chairman of the Houston Energy Transition Initiative, Tudor has been hard at work shepherding Houston’s energy sector through its transition to a lower-carbon future. If successful, he may just yet earn himself another moniker as a doula as he helps birth a new industry.
Buy-side diligence in healthcare deals can no longer stop at current earnings. Past coding irregularities, noncompliant leases and unaddressed HIPAA risk analyses travel with a target through closing, affecting purchase price, indemnities and exit valuations.
In a wide-ranging interview, Gibson Dunn capital-markets leader Hillary Holmes takes Texas Lawbook subscribers inside a career that placed her at the center of SpaceX’s historic public offering this year. But that is only the latest chapter in a much deeper Texas story that charts her rise from the Houston “deal room” of her childhood to one of the country’s top corporate lawyers, known for her instinct to see beyond the transactions themselves.
Baker Botts said Mark Schlackman has counseled clients in conventional and renewable power deals, as well as midstream and downstream oil and gas transactions, and “has built a reputation for moving complex projects forward while keeping a client’s broader commercial objectives in view.”
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