Corp. Deal Tracker Weekly Round-Up: 15 Firms and 129 Texas Lawyers Toil on 19 Transactions Worth $9.4B

A surge in deal-making over the last few weeks has observers believing that 2018 may be a strong one. Tax reform and a rise in oil prices fueled a week that saw 129 Texas lawyers from 15 different firms and in-house teams working on 19 transactions worth $9.4 billion. That was up considerably from the previous week when 49 Texas lawyers worked on 10 transactions worth $6.28 billion. Claire Poole has her weekly update in The Texas Lawbook. and the news is good.

January 24, 2018 Claire Poole

Corp. Deal Tracker Weekly Round-Up: Eight Firms and 49 Texas Lawyers Back to Work on 10 Transactions Worth $6.28B

It was clearly back to work for Texas attorneys in the second full week of January with eight firms working on ten transactions worth a total of nearly $6.3 billion. As she does each week, Claire Poole has all the details in The Texas Lawbook.

January 18, 2018 Claire Poole

USA Compression Partners To Acquire ETP’s CDM Resource Management in $1.8 Billion Deal

USA Compression Partners announced a $1.8 billion deal to acquire CDM Resource Management from Energy Transfer Partners. It’s a complicated deal and, therefore, involved lots of Texas lawyers. Claire Poole explains in The Texas Lawbook.

January 17, 2018 Claire Poole

Liberty Oilfield Launches $200M IPO to Delight of Industry – and Some Texas Lawyers

A noticeable lull in IPOs was broken last week by the revival of an issue postponed last year. Denver-based Liberty Oilfield Services not only revived the issue, it increased the size, suggesting to some that there is renewed equity demand from investors for energy companies. Claire Poole outlines the good news in The Texas Lawbook.

January 15, 2018 Claire Poole

Texas M&A Plummets in Q4

Texas businesses were on track last year to challenge 2014 as the best year ever for M&A, but then dealmaking slowed considerably in the fourth quarter. Mergermarket reports deal count during the final three months of 2017 dropped 13.3 percent from the third quarter and deal value plummeted 55 percent. The Texas Lawbook also reports the 25 largest M&A deals of 2017.

January 10, 2018 Mark Curriden

Corp. Deal Tracker Weekly Round-Up: 12 Firms and 92 Texas Lawyers Open 2018 with 12 Transactions Worth $16.5B

Fueled by Dominion Energy's Jan. 3 agreement to purchase Scana for $14.6 billion, the first week of transactions for the new year was a strong one. Claire Poole has the names, the firms and all the numbers in her weekly roundup in The Texas Lawbook.

January 9, 2018 Claire Poole

Corp. Deal Tracker Weekly Round-Up: 9 Firms and 47 Texas Lawyers Close 2017 with 10 Transactions Worth $2.5B

The final week of 2017 stayed true to history: the numbers were low and the activity was slow. Weatherford International led the deals with an important surprise involving a previously announced joint venture with Schlumberger. Claire Poole has the specifics and the stories behind them in The Texas Lawbook.

January 3, 2018 Claire Poole

Corp. Deal Tracker Weekly Round-Up: 15 Firms and 113 Texas Lawyers Put Holiday Bows on 15 Transactions Worth $9B

Texas lawyers, 113 of them from 15 firms, ran out of ribbon trying to wrap up deal-making before the end of the holidays and the end of 2017. There were brands like McDermott and Chicago Bridge & Iron, with international connections and Texas ties. Claire Poole has the details in The Texas Lawbook.

December 27, 2017 Claire Poole

Corp. Deal Tracker Weekly Round-Up: Texas Lawyers Part of Pre-Holiday Rush with 16 Firms and 164 Attorneys Working on 15 Transactions Worth $13.8B

After a sluggish couple of weeks, Texas transactional lawyers picked up the pace in year-end deals. Led by a $10.1 billion exchange involving Marathon Petroleum and MPLX, the weekly action totaled $13.8 billion, consigning a gift of billable hours to 164 Texas lawyers in 16 different firms. Claire Poole details the up-to-date deals (and a couple of surprises) in The Texas Lawbook.

December 18, 2017 Claire Poole

V&E, DLA Piper, T&K Advise on Oasis Petroleum’s $946 Million Acquisition from Forge Energy

Some familiar names were involved in the announcement late Monday of the acquisition of some West Texas assets from Forge Energy by Oasis Petroleum. The Texas Lawbook has those names involved in the deal that came with a nearly $1 billion price tag.

December 14, 2017 Claire Poole

Corp. Deal Tracker Weekly Round-Up: Texas Lawyers Provide Their Own Holiday Activity with 10 Firms and 126 Lawyers Working 14 Transactions Worth $9.7B

A $7 billion fund formation led a post-holiday surge in transactions that also included a $285 million pickup of Linn Energy assets, a massive flatbed truck company deal and the $800 purchase of a micro-optic security technology developer. Claire Poole has the details of those deals and others in The Texas Lawbook.

December 11, 2017 Claire Poole

Law Firms and Banks Battle for Cross-Border M&A Deals in Texas

Competition between corporate law firms and investment banks to advise buyers and sellers involved in multinational dealmaking in Texas is dominated by non-Texas-based operations with a few exceptions. The top law firms are Latham, Kirkland, V&E and Norton Rose Fulbright, while Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley dominate the world of financial advisers. The Texas Lawbook has the exclusive details.

December 8, 2017 Mark Curriden