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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. 15, 2026
DEAL COUNT
88
DEAL VALUE
$409.6B
MAR. 15, 2025
DEAL COUNT
369
DEAL VALUE
$245.3B

AI After the Strikes: What Texas Lawyers Need to Know About Digital Replica Clauses

Following the post-strike AI provisions negotiated by SAG-AFTRA and the Writers Guild of America, the entertainment industry is entering a new phase of grappling with artificial intelligence. Performers and writers demanded meaningful limits on the use of AI to replicate their voices, likenesses and performances and now the burden shifts to lawyers to operationalize them with clarity and foresight. Updating contract templates to include boilerplate AI clauses is the easy part; the real challenge is drafting for a technology that is moving faster than the law can keep up with.

Natalie LeVeck

BlackRock Unit and Others Taking AES Corp. Private for $15/Share Cash

AES Corp. has agreed to be acquired by a consortium that includes a BlackRock unit, Swedish investor EQT Group, CalPERS and the Qatar Investment Authority for $15 a share cash. The companies said the offer represents a 40 percent premium to AES Corp.'s 30-day average stock price prior to July 8 when the deal was first announced.

Kirkland, Skadden, Davis Polk and Simpson Thacher advised on the deal.

Jason Philyaw

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Tariff to Trillion: Texas Deal Lawyers Had a Blockbuster Year (and Hardly Saw It Coming)

It didn't feel like it at the time, but 2025 turned out to be a blockbuster year for M&A lawyers in Texas. The Lone Star State may no longer be matching national trends in M&A; it could be surpassing them. A good year elsewhere was a great year in Texas, regardless of the small print. Put simply, there were more deals made for more money (lots more) than we anticipated, and The Texas Lawbook’s Corporate Deal Tracker has the exclusive details.

Allen Pusey

Saltchuk Takes Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Private for $1.2B Cash

Privately held Seattle freight transportation, marine service and energy distribution conglomerate Saltchuk said Wednesday that it has agreed to acquire Houston-based Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corp. for about $1.2 billion cash. Sidley Austin advised Great Lakes and its CLO Vivienne Schiffer, while Fried Frank represented Saltchuk.

Jason Philyaw

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