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As we stumble toward the end of a ridiculously complicated year, our gift to you this holiday is to keep it as short and sweet; at least as short and sweet as last week's 18 transactions will allow.
Even after closing the Dallas-based company will continue to run under the current management, but as a privately-held company and no longer listed on NASDAQ.
Together the transactions will increase the Midland-based company's holdings in the Permian by 81,500 acres. The Lawbook's Caroline Evans has the names of the lawyers and the other firms involved.
There were 10 transactions reported to the CDT Roundup last week. Three of them were automotive. In itself it doesn't really mean anything. But a closer look continues to suggest that Texas dealmaking is locked into a future that runs the full swath of modern life. Allen Pusey and Caroline Evans report.
Lawyers almost never get to enjoy the fruits of their labors after successfully representing a client. Not true for Barron Wallace. He's driven on highways and crossed bridges, sat in sports stadiums and waited in comfort at airports that are the results of his legal handiwork. Wallace, a public finance partner at Bracewell in Houston, has led more than 300 muni-bond projects valued at $37.26 billion during the past eight years. And he is far from finished.
If you were wondering where the energy deals went, don't worry. Of the 15 deals last week 11 of them were in the energy space. Yes, they included some alt deals, but there were a few familiar names as well. They're in the CDT Roundup.
While conference calls, electronic data rooms and the electronic exchange of documents have been the ordinary course of business for some time, Bell Nunnally partner J. Jeffrey Cash says the coronavirus pandemic has had one big change on mergers and acquisitions: everything is taking longer. He explains the impact that is having on the M&A practice in this article.
You know you've been through a tough year when Thanksgiving signals the beginning of its end. But a look at Texas transactions over the two weeks that included the holiday offers a glimpse of The Future. And it doesn't look so bad. The CDT Roundup explains.
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