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CDT SNAPSHOT
11.7%
Nationwide, middle-market revenue rose 11.7 percent year-over-year in 2025, with 85 percent of companies growing and 53 percent achieving 10 percent-plus growth, according to an Ohio State University report.
CDT DATABASE YEAR-TO-DATE TRANSACTION TOTALS
MAR. 22, 2026
DEAL COUNT
94
DEAL VALUE
$415.5B
MAR. 22, 2025
DEAL COUNT
408
DEAL VALUE
$269.4B

Mergermarket: Texas M&A Plummeted in H1 2019

If you've been paying attention to M&A numbers in recent weeks, you already know this: compared to last year, the first half of 2019 has been lackluster. Deal count is down. Deal values are down. "Exceedingly cautious," is the way one lawyer describes the market. Claire Poole bears the bad news from our exclusive Mergermarket data.

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Callon-Carrizo: It’s All About Relationships

Baker Botts had done work for Carrizo Oil & Gas for 22 years. Kirkland had been developing a relationship with Callon Petroleum management for the last several years. In the end, the two law firms helped put together a combination of the two companies that one analyst says will join an elite group that can achieve double-digit production growth while generating meaningful free cash flow.

Claire Poole

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CDT Roundup: 7 Deals, 9 Firms, 85 Lawyers, $2.5B

Almost 4,000 PE funds are now competing in a congested market for money-raising and PE-backed buyouts are down in number and value for the second quarter, according to Preqin. In her weekly roundup, Claire Poole has the major deals last week involving Texas lawyers and stats that describe an increasingly circumspect market for M&A.

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Drillinginfo: O&G M&A Rebounded in Q2

M&A in the oil and gas sector reached $65 billion in the second quarter. Even though $57 billion of that was the Occidental purchase of Anadarko, the remaining $7.6 billion was four times the $2 billion logged in the first quarter. The bad news: it's still far lower than the $19 billion quarterly averages just a few years ago. Claire Poole clarifies.

Claire Poole

CDT Roundup: 23 Deals, 15 Firms, 154 Lawyers, $8.29B

It's S-L-O-W out there in the global M&A market. Deal value reached $842 billion in the second quarter. But that's down 27% from last year. Deal count is the lowest since 2008. Dealmakers have the jitters. And yet...The first half was the third strongest on record. And U.S. dealmaking hit its first $1 trillion half. Claire Poole deciphers these seeming contradictions in her weekly Roundup, and balances out the week that was.

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