(April 16) – The Texas Lawbook’s 2017 Corporate Deal Tracker results for M&A dealmaking are final and there are some major surprises. V&E still reigns No. 1, but a handful of national law firms that have moved into Texas are threatening to take its crown. The Texas Lawbook has all the numbers on M&A by Texas law firms.
Corp. Deal Tracker Weekly Round-Up: 11 Firms and 121 TX Lawyers Advise on 15 Deals worth $13.4 billion
Clearly, spring recess is over. Texas dealmakers were back to work last week, loading 15 deals worth $13.4 billion into their holiday baskets. The Big Deal of the week was the Concho Resources $9.5 billion purchase of RSP Permian. But there were others of interest. Claire Poole has the numbers and names behind the deals in The Texas Lawbook.
Corp. Deal Tracker Weekly Round-Up: 10 Firms and 92 TX Lawyers Advise on 9 Deals Worth $4B
Claire Poole left for vacation after writing most of last week’s roundup, and it appears Texas’s deal attorneys followed her. Texas lawyers advised on nine deals worth $4 billion, which was a 44 percent drop in dealflow from the previous week. Some firms still formed some biggies, though. Details here.
Concho & RSP Permian Have Gibson Dunn and V&E Lead $9.5B Shale Oil Deal
In the biggest M&A deal in the history of the Permian Basin, Midland-based Concho Resources is buying rival oil producer RSP Permian for $9.5 billion in an all stock transaction.
Corporate Deal Tracker 2017: A Year of Market Contrasts
Dealmaking in 2017 was confounding: deals were up, but values were down. The deal count hit 735, but total reported value dropped below $400 billion. There are lots of reasons, of course. But maybe the best explanation is the market itself. Claire Poole sums up the year based on the 2017 annual Corporate Deal Tracker tallies exclusively in The Texas Lawbook.
Corp. Deal Tracker Weekly Round-Up: 13 Firms and 51 Texas Lawyers Advise on 17 Transactions Worth $5.8B
Spring break in parts of Texas is typically pretty slow in the deal-making world, and this past week was no exception. It was also a secretive bunch this past week, with nine transactions out of the 17 not revealing values and several companies not willing to share their deal counsel. Come on, give these poor vacationing lawyers some credit. Claire Poole has the details in her weekly roundup.
CDT Roundup: Only 15 Deals? Are We Already On Spring Break?
Two monster power deals–one involving four years of negotiation– ended quietly last week. So did a tepid week of new deals in Texas. The deals were far-flung and diverse, but at $3.3 billion over 15 transactions, Lone Star billables made us believe that someone was getting ready for Spring Break. Claire Poole bears both the bad news and the sordid details in The Texas Lawbook.
Corp. Deal Tracker Weekly Round-Up: 13 Firms and 116 Texas Lawyers Advise on 19 Transactions Worth $5.4B
Capital markets activity accounted for the three biggest deals of this past week, and the nature of most of last week’s transactions were energy-heavy, but some other industries also struck deals. Claire Poole has the details on firm involvement all 19 transactions, which included an automotive glass merger, a hospital joint venture dismantling and an investment in a movie/brewhouse chain – something for everyone as February closed out and March began.