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Dealmaking among Texas lawyers was way down this past week, thanks to the spreading coronavirus and sliding oil prices. But transactions were already sickly even before the recent COVID-19 fears. Claire Poole explains.
Ryan Cox was co-head of Haynes and Boone’s capital markets and securities practice while Eric Williams was chief of its M&A practice.
As the markets tumbled this week, The Lawbook's Claire Poole began polling M&A experts for their take on what the future might hold. Their view was stark for the short term, cautious in the long term and instructive on the lessons that might be learned.
It was a semi-busy deal week last week for Texas lawyers. But Monday's stock market collapse – the biggest since the 2008 financial crisis – could be a transaction killer until a clear recovery is underway.
Pickering Energy Partners’ Dan Pickering offers his views of the turmoil in the oil and gas markets and what it means for dealmaking and bankruptcies in the sector.
Oil prices and energy stocks are plunging, thanks to the coronavirus and Russia refusing to cut production, leading to worries about M&A and new bankruptcies. Observers are calling on companies to work toward generating more free cash flow by lowering spending and cutting production so they can pay down debt – and maybe acquire wounded competitors.
She was a bronze medalist in the 2000 Olympics, but Tasha Schwikert's role as an ex-athlete and lawyer may yet prove her most enduring. As Natalie Posgate explains, the reasons are personal.
Private equity firms’ rate of return isn’t so rosy due to record amounts of dry powder pushing up prices for deals, according to a recent report. Meanwhile, dealmaking was decent among Texas lawyers last week thanks to two MLP simplification deals worth almost $10 billion.
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