Goldman Regains Top Spot in Terms of Texas M&A Value
Other bulge-bracket banks also ranked highly, showing that those with heft and a record of leadership are winning deal business despite the slowdown in activity in Texas.
CDT Roundup: 8 Deals, 8 Firms, 138 Lawyers, $6.6B
Private equity activity has slowed down this year while M&A involving Texas lawyers did the same this past week. Consolidation continued in the Permian Basin, private equity-backed midstream developers found exits and a big oil company divested a big asset while another expanded in a new growth area.
Corp. Deal Tracker: The New M&A Master Chart, Deals To Be Documented Weekly
Are your law firm deals included in the Corporate Deal Tracker's M&A lawyer rankings? The Texas Lawbook has a new, easy, transparent way to find out. The Lawbook unveils its new CDT M&A Master Chart, which documents every transaction handled by lawyers in Texas. The process is simple. The deal data is quickly updated and accurate. Check out the details.
Two Big Deals, Three Law Firms, 16 Texas Lawyers, $3B
Kirkland and McGuireWoods advised on Brookfield’s $2 billion purchase of a quarter stake in Dominion’s LNG facility Cove Point while Baker Botts represented Innophos on its sale to One Rock for $932 million in cash and assumed debt.
Shearman, V&E, Kirkland Advise on DTE’s Pipeline Acquisition from Momentum, Indigo
The purchase comes at a busy time for midstream deals, including Golden Gate’s $600 million Hillstone sale to NGL, Energy Transfer’s $5.1 billion purchase of SemGroup and Plains’ and Magellan’s $1.438 billion sale of a BridgeTex Pipeline stake to pension fund manager Omers.
CDT Roundup: 19 Deals, 14 Firms, 55 Lawyers, $4.3B
Lawyers talked trends at UT Law School’s M&A Institute last week, from reps and warranties insurance to deal flow, while transaction activity kept humming along. Claire Poole reports.
Kirkland, V&E Counsel on Parsley Energy’s $2.27B Purchase of Jagged Peak
Analysts say that the deal is accretive on financial metrics that matter, their acreage positions in the Delaware Basin fit like a glove and the transaction’s synergies are significant.
Texas M&A Dealmakers in 2019: Kirkland & Everyone Else (updated)
In a year when mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures in Texas are down significantly, lawyers at Kirkland & Ellis are actually expanding their position as the go-to M&A law firm for businesses in the state. M&A activity declined or was stagnate at 17 of the top 30 corporate law firms during the first nine months of this year, according to Mergermarket. Five firms are down double-digits in deal count from 2018. Kirkland is the only firm in the top 30 up double-digits. The Texas Lawbook has the details.