BlackRock, Meta Team Up on $14B El Paso Data Center

BlackRock and Meta announced on Tuesday a deal to build a 1 gigawatt data center in El Paso. Latham & Watkins advised Meta on the transaction, and BlackRock used Kirkland & Ellis as outside legal counsel.

July 28, 2026 Jason Philyaw

$1.25B Bet: Texas Natural Gas Company Acquires Houston’s Twin Eagle

Spring-based Expand Energy has acquired Houston wholesale energy marketing company Twin Eagle Holdings for $1.25 billion from private equity firm Five Point Infrastructure.

July 28, 2026 Jason Philyaw

Dallas-based Matador Expands Permian Footprint with EnCap Buy

Dallas-based Matador Resources said Thursday that it has acquired Paloma Permian from Houston private equity firm EnCap Investments for $1.275 billion in cash. Baker Botts and Vinson & Elkins advised on the deal.

July 23, 2026 Jason Philyaw

Magnolia O&G Acquires WildFire in $4.1B South Texas Deal

Kirkland & Ellis and Troutman Pepper Locke advised the parties in an all-stock transaction, adding 1.25 million net acres in South Texas for Houston-based Magnolia Oil & Gas.

July 21, 2026 Jason Philyaw

CDT Roundup: A Week of Data Centers, LNG and Consistency

Constance and consistency remained the nature of dealmaking last week, as Big Money continued to flow into infrastructure, energy projects and everything that supports data center development.

That and more in this edition of CDT Roundup.

July 19, 2026 Jason Philyaw

Megadeals on Top, Middle Market Grind Below: Inside Texas’ 1H Deal Sheet

With 799 deals in just the first six months of this year, and nearly a trillion dollars in value attached to those transactions, Texas lawyers advised on everything from data centers to drill pads. At the center of it all sits the Texas Triangle of Austin, Dallas and Houston, where energy, software and finance grab the headlines.

July 19, 2026 Jeff Schnick

Updated:Billion-dollar Bar Box Score: Dallas Star Keeps Houston from Running Away with M&A

The state’s largest cities are locked in their classic M&A arms race and the lawyers in the two cities are playing a different game in the first half of 2026 when it comes to billion-dollar deals.

The Texas Lawbook's exclusive Corporate Deal Tracker breaks down the lawyers who lead the most megadeals for the first six months of the year.

July 16, 2026 Jeff Schnick

Longtime Houston Energy Partner Laterals to Troutman 

Mac Marshall, an energy partner, has joined Troutman Pepper Locke in Houston from Norton Rose Fulbright. He will focus his practice on upstream and midstream energy transactions, including acquisitions and divestitures, commercial agreements and energy financings. 

July 15, 2026 Elle Grinnell

Updated: Ampersands in Overdrive: Kirkland, Latham & Gibson Fuel $1B Deals

The Texas Lawbook is kicking off 1H 2026 rankings with a look at billion-plus M&A through our Corporate Deal Tracker rankings, highlighting the firms that have dominated the first six months of the year. And shocker, the ampersands continue to impress.

July 15, 2026 Jeff Schnick

Y’all Street Rising: Texas Matching Its Economic Muscle With Market Depth

Against the backdrop of SpaceX’s long-awaited public debut last month and a potential reopening of the IPO window in capital markets, Texas is testing whether its economic strength can be matched by financial market depth.

The Texas Lawbook caught up with Carlos Pena of Texas Capital to discuss how extended private lifecycles, the evolving IPO windows and Texas’ legal and governance frameworks are reshaping capital formation.

July 15, 2026 Jeff Schnick

Not Gonna Lie, Texas Had ’Em in the First Half

We may be only a halfway through 2026, but the megadeal scoreboard is already starting to look like a final season tally.

The Texas Lawbook's exclusive Corporate Deal Tracker breaks down the first half activity for 2026 for deals valued at $1 billion or more.

July 14, 2026 Jeff Schnick

Ferguson Enterprises Acquires FloWorks in $1.6B Deal

The deal for the Houston-based valve distributor provides both tech and customer-base expansion for Ferguson's push into data center infrastructure air and water services. Orrick, Kirkland and Foley are advising.

July 14, 2026 Allen Pusey