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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.
Energy M&A isn't the only market that's gone torpid. According to Drillinginfo, public equity and debt offerings raised only $16.9 billion in the second quarter, down more than a third from this time last year. Claire Poole has the numbers underlying those numbers, along with a slightly more optimistic CDT Roundup of Texas activity.
M&A activity involving Texas companies may have declined during the first six months of 2019, but the slump has not impacted the corporate transactional machine that is Kirkland & Ellis. The Texas Lawbook has exclusive Mergermarket data ranking the top 30 law firms representing Texas businesses in dealmaking.
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