Two women GCs are starting off the week on total #girlboss status, leading Irving-based Vistra Energy’s first mega-deal: a $4 billion purchase of Houston-based Dynegy. They both hired outside lawyers based in New York.
Corp. Deal Tracker Weekly Round-up: 10 Firms, 67 Lawyers, 15 Transactions, $10.5B
Big Pharma and food distribution provided billable hours for Texas firms last week, but the rest of the week’s deals were still dominated by oil and gas. Claire Poole has the names and details, as well as the numbers, in her weekly report for The Texas Lawbook.
Mergermarket: Large Corporate Firms Dominate Top 2017 M&A Rankings for Texas Biz
Three law firms continue to dominate the top of the rankings for advising Texas-based companies in mergers and acquisitions. New data provided exclusively to The Texas Lawbook from the global research firm Mergermarket shows that 12 significantly increased the number of deals they’ve handled during the first nine months of 2017. The Texas Lawbook has complete details on the M&A rankings.
Corp. Deal Tracker Weekly Round Up: Six Transactions, 37 Texas Lawyers, $2B in Value
It was slim pickings in M&A and securities work by Texas lawyers this past week, with only six transactions reported involving 36 attorneys in-state and $2 billion in value. The Texas Lawbook has the details here.
Q3 2017 Texas M&A: Deal Count Drops, Deal Value Jumps
Third quarter mergers and acquisitions involving Texas companies dropped to the lowest point in four years, according to the research firm Mergermarket. Thanks to a handful of large-dollar deals, transactional value jumped 39 percent in Q3 compared to earlier periods in 2017. The Texas Lawbook has the data.
O&G consolidation forecast: “It’s going to be good for bankers and lawyers.”
A crowded field of investors, sticky oil prices and the return of investor activism have set the stage for a glut of consolidation in the oil and gas sector, predicts a major investment adviser. Lawyers and bankers need to sharpen their pencils. Claire Poole has the details in The Texas Lawbook.
Mergermarket: Evercore Tops Financial Advisers in Texas
Evercore continues its reign as the financial adviser handling the most M&A involving Texas-based businesses. Piper Jaffray, JPMorgan, Barclays, Citi and Moelis saw the number of deals in which they are advising jump significantly. The Texas Lawbook has these exclusive numbers from Mergermarket.
Corp. Deal Tracker Weekly Round Up: 12 Transactions, 100 Texas Lawyers, $6.57B in Value – Updated
M&A and capital markets activity surged last week. From Locke Lord advising Medallion Gathering on its $1.8 billion sale to V&E counseling Omega on a $500 million acquisition, 100 Texas lawyers worked on a dozen transactions worth around $6.57 billion. The Texas Lawbook has all the details.
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.
Corp. Deal Tracker Weekly Roundup: 80 Texas Lawyers Worked on $4.88B in M&A Deals & Security Offerings
Eight M&A and private equity transactions with a total combined deal value of more than $4 billion. The three securities offerings – one IPO and two debt offerings – raised about $770 million. Last week showed that the energy sector remains a vibrant deal market.