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Of the 24 quarters recorded by the Corporate Deal Tracker since 2020 for M&A, the four quarters of 2025 rank as the top four in deal count, with three of those quarters ranking highest in deal value as well.
CDT DATABASE YEAR-TO-DATE TRANSACTION TOTALS
FEB. 22, 2026
DEAL COUNT
68
DEAL VALUE
$361.5B
FEB. 22, 2025
DEAL COUNT
251
DEAL VALUE
$181.7B

Transocean Acquires Valaris for $5.8B, Creating Deepwater Drilling Behemoth

Transocean announced Monday it has acquired Valaris Ltd. for about $5.8 billion in an all-stock transaction that creates an offshore drilling behemoth with 33 ultra-deepwater drillships, nine semisubmersibles and 31 modern jackups. Skadden advised Valaris with a team led by Eric Otness in Houston and Stephen Arcano and Max Troper in New York. Davor Vukadin is GC at Valaris, and Brady Long is Transocean's chief legal officer.

Jason Philyaw

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Comerica Closes $10.9B Merger, Wins DFW Corp. Counsel Award for M&A Transaction of the Year

Fifth Third Bank's merger with Dallas-based Comerica was a complex mega-transaction put extraordinary pressure on the Comerica legal department, which was already being pushed to the limit on other matters. But the $10.9 billion transaction announced on Oct. 6 officially closed this morning at 12:02 a.m., a mere four months after the deal was announced. Citing their extraordinary accomplishments, the Association of Corporate Counsel’s DFW Chapter and The Texas Lawbook this past Thursday night honored the Comerica legal department and its outside counsel at Wachtell Lipton with the 2025 DFW M&A Transaction of the Year.

Allen Pusey & Mark Curriden

Chris Blevins: Navigating Solo Brands Through Crisis and Into Renewed Growth

As a teenager and college student, Chris Blevins watched his father — an accountant turned business entrepreneur — negotiate contracts, do deals with vendors and handle issues with clients and customers.

“I was taking a few business and law-related classes, and I started realizing that the things that frustrated him weren’t about the product or the customers, they were about navigating legal and contractual issues that felt foreign and risky,” Blevins said. “It clicked for me that I could be someone who helped businesses run better by removing the friction and risk around these issues, making things clearer and easier.”

For Blevins, the career strategy paid major dividends in 2025 when he scored some huge successes for Grapevine-based Solo Brands. As such, the Association of Corporate Counsel’s DFW Chapter and The Lawbook have named Blevins as a finalist for the 2025 DFW Corporate Counsel Award for General Counsel of the Year for a Small Legal Department (two to five attorneys).

Mark Curriden

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