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CDT SNAPSHOT
11.7%
Nationwide, middle-market revenue rose 11.7 percent year-over-year in 2025, with 85 percent of companies growing and 53 percent achieving 10 percent-plus growth, according to an Ohio State University report.
CDT DATABASE YEAR-TO-DATE TRANSACTION TOTALS
APR. 19, 2026
DEAL COUNT
203
DEAL VALUE
$474.7B
APR. 19, 2025
DEAL COUNT
479
DEAL VALUE
$284.7B

Corp. Deal Tracker Weekly Roundup: Eight Transactions, 19 Texas Lawyers, $3.1B in Transactions

M&A and capital markets activity involving Texas lawyers were sparse in number and modest in size last week. In all, eight transactions were announced in M&A, private equity and securities offerings during the final week of September. The Corporate Deal Tracker shows that 19 lawyers from 11 different firms worked on the transactions that had a cumulative value of $3.1 billion. The Texas Lawbook has the details.

Claire Poole

Corp. Deal Tracker Weekly Round Up: Midstream M&A, IPO’s Highlight Week, Along With Chevron, Nabors Deals

Fresh off the $2.2 billion acquisition of the Houston Rockets, Texas billionaire Tilman Fertitta has done another deal and a $1.4 billion securities offering. The Landry's/Golden Nugget transaction was one of several deals that kept Texas corporate lawyers busy last week. AKK, Baker Botts, DLA Piper, HayBoo, Jones Day, Latham, Locke Lord and V&E were among the firms leading the transactions.

Claire Poole

M&A Round Up: AKK, V&E Find Plenty of Deal Work

The week after Labor Day signified the return to work for a lot of Texas deal lawyers, despite the residual damage in Houston from Hurricane Harvey. Herewith are some highlights of recent deals that portend a busy fall, at least in the energy sector.

Claire Poole

Texas GCs Steven Scheinthal and Rafael Stone — The Legal Minds Behind $2.2B Houston Rockets Deal

Non-Texas lawyers at DLA Piper and White & Case did the paperwork, but the Houston-based general counsel for Fertitta’s restaurant, entertainment and hotel company Landry’s and the longtime general counsel for the Rockets and its home court the Toyota Center negotiated the deal. “That is how we kept it quiet and it was done fast,” Scheinthal told The Texas Lawbook.

Mark Curriden

Jackson Walker Closes Texan’s Nine-Figure Colorado Ranch Purchase

JW partner Alfie Meyerson cannot identify the buyer or the exact amount of the deal, but the Cielo Vista Ranch in Colorado was listed at $105 million, making it almost certainly the biggest ranch sale in the U.S. so far this year. The property covers 83,000 acres and features the 14,053-foot Culebra Peak, the highest privately-owned summit in the world. “It’s like buying your own national park,” Meyerson told The Texas Lawbook in an exclusive interview.

Claire Poole

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