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CDT Roundup: 8 Deals, 8 Firms, 65 Lawyers, $3.2B

Data from Pitchbook for the first three quarters of 2024 shows that global M&A has rebounded both in volume and value over the same period last year. The CDT Roundup parses their report and looks at how those global numbers compare with North America in general and Texas in particular. The numbers, extracted from the Corporate Deal Tracker database, surprise. That, and the usual summary of deal traffic during what proved to be an ironically light week.

Keurig Dr Pepper to Acquire Ghost Brand for $990M

Under the deal KDP will pay $990 million in cash for a 60 percent stake in Ghost Lifestyle and Ghost Beverages, with purchase of the remaining 40 percent to follow in 2028. Ghost will operate as part of KDP but will continue to be run by Ghost co-founders, Dan Lourenco and Ryan Hughes.

Dallas Real Estate Partner Conrad Steele Returns to Jones Day

Steele, who started his career in private practice at Jones Day in 2015, was most recently at Winstead. He has handled large acquisitions of distressed hospitality loan portfolios, single-family housing portfolios, self-storage portfolios, and life sciences properties.

CDT Roundup: 12 Deals, 11 Firms, 136 Lawyers, $5.3B

Dykema’s 20th anniversary M&A Outlook Survey is grounded in optimism, a far cry from the doom-saying that characterizes these final days of the presidential race. The survey, taken between late July and early August suggests that M&A may well thrive between now and mid-2025. The CDT Roundup takes a look at the apparent reasoning behind such optimism, along with the usual list of Texas-related transactions reported last week.

CDT Roundup: 17 Deals, 12 Firms, 150 Lawyers, $8.4B

Chevron’s announcement last week of a $6.5 billion divestiture of a couple of Canadian upstream interests reminded us that the California company is on the verge of relocating its C-Suite to Houston. But included, along with the household furniture and company file cabinets, is an ongoing beef with their new Texas neighbors, Exxon Mobil, over Chevron’s proposed $53 billion merger with Hess Corp. The CDT Roundup catches up with recent developments regarding the disputed merger, along with the usual list of firms and lawyers behind last week’s Texas-related transactions.

CDT Roundup: 22 Deals, 10 Firms, 189 Lawyers, $23.2B

There’s no way to play down 22 reported transactions for this week valued at more than $23 billion; it was a good week, especially when 15 of those are M&A and your capital markets deals include two IPOs. But in addition to the usual summary of all those deals, along with the firms and lawyers behind them, we take our quarterly look at the number of publicly-reported transactions we’ve handled in the CDT Roundup thus far in 2024.

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