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There is some anxiety ahead of this week's expected approval by Anadarko Petroleum shareholders of the company's $38 billion sale to Occidental Petroleum. Though approval won't likely thwart Carl Icahn's proxy fight, it will allow Oxy to size-up assets whose sale might help pay down the transaction's sizable debt. In her weekly Roundup, Claire Poole discusses the ramifications along with a week's worth of Texas M&A deals.
Andrew Van Noord is the first real estate capital markets attorney in the one-year-old Dallas office and is bringing along an associate.
Attorneys at the Texas offices of Jones Day, Orrick, Shearman and Gibson Dunn help paper up big transactions for Britain's BBA Aviation, France's Veolia and a JV between Colombia's Ecopetrol and Oxy.
Will the deal machine keep churning? With worries over the U.S. economy and trade tensions, some aren't so sure. But PwC thinks M&A will remain active, with technology dominant. Claire Poole explores the firm's analysis plus provides highlights of the deal week that was among Texas lawyers.
Darwin Bruce, former long-time GC for T.D. Jakes, is pioneering a new initiative designed to significantly improve M&A and CapM opportunities for small and middle market business community in Texas. The lower middle market is woefully underserved, even though those are the businesses driving the economy, but Bruce says he plans to fix that.
CEC Entertainment, owner of Chuck E. Cheese and Peter Piper Pizza and part of Queso Holdings Inc., announced that its merger agreement with Leo Holdings Corp. (NYSE: LHC) has been
Osaka’s purchase of Houston-based Sabine will give it the target’s entire natural gas position in East Texas and make it the first Japanese acquirer of a U.S. shale gas developer. Claire Poole has the details.
Financial advisor Evercore edged out Jefferies in Texas M&A dealmaking for the first half of 2019, according to the latest stats from Mergermarket. Claire Poole has the rest of the first half results, including the value rankings.
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