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The natural gas producer's acquisition of Denham Capital-backed Covey Park makes it the leader in the Haynesville Shale. Plus, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones increases his investment in Comstock to $1.1 billion in the deal. Claire Poole has the details.
As previously reported, the usual law firms saw decent numbers for Q1 deal counts involving Texas firms, but the drop in values were steep. Not surprisingly, financial advisors were not spared. Although the top Q1 deal counts belonged to the usual suspects, the drop in values was startling, according to Mergermarket data for Texas provided exclusively to The Texas Lawbook.
Due diligence often requires significant exchanges of confidential information. One of the vexing problems with those exchanges is how they can be accomplished without waiving work product protections, attorney-client privileges and similar protections and privileges. Byron Egan and Bryan McCrory look at the potential pitfalls and offer some practical suggestions.
Does the pressure of being a publicly traded PE firm affect its performance when compared to its private PE counterparts? Not so much, according to a recent PitchBook analysis. Claire Poole has the comparison, along with her weekly roundup of Texas deals.
In a $4.3 billion deal with Infrastructure Investments Fund, publicly-traded utility El Paso Electric Co. announced Monday that it has agreed to be taken private. Claire Poole has deal specifics and the potential implications for the City of El Paso.
Private equity exits in oil and gas are notoriously difficult and these days few and far between. As a result, some PEs are finding creative ways to transition. The Lawbook's Claire Poole explains in her weekly roundup of Texas deal activity.
Kirkland & Ellis, Vinson & Elkins and Latham & Watkins topped the charts in M&A deal value for Texas businesses during the first quarter of 2019. They also topped the charts in deal count, new Mergermarket data shows.
NASCAR Holdings will assume control of four new speedways, including the iconic ovals at Daytona and Talladega, after International Speedway Corp. accepted a $2 billion purchase offer. Claire Poole has the names of the Texas-based Baker Botts crew that helped push the deal to the finish line.
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