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The two-deal parlay by TPG, which formally ends AT&Ts $49 billion venture into the home entertainment business, was advised by Gibson Dunn, Ropes & Gray, Cleary Gottlieb, Steptoe & Johnson, HWG, Crowell & Morning, White & Case and Mintz, Levin.
Shannon Thompson, who joins the firm from Kirkland & Ellis, represents private equity and other alternative asset managers.
The Dallas tax expert has significant experience within the renewable energy and infrastructure sectors.
New Latham partner Jonathan Katz practiced for nearly a dozen years at King & Spalding. Houston office managing partner Nick Dhesi said Katz is highly regarded for his experience in crafting EPC contracts for energy and infrastructure projects.
Since the record year of 2021, IPOs have been scarce by any standard. Even SPACs have been in decline. The two non-SPAC IPOs that reached the CDT Roundup last week hardly represent a bumper crop. But with 145 logged with the SEC so far this year, we may be on a pace for the most IPOs since 2021. The CDT Roundup takes a look at those two new IPOs and what they might tell us about the market in Texas and elsewhere — along with the usual summary of last week's Texas transactional action.
Texas lawyers from Latham & Watkins and Sidley Austin advised Vistra on the acquisition of the last 15 percent of Vistra Vision not already owned by Vistra. Vistra Vision owns and operates alternative energy facilities, including four nuclear plants.
Private equity is back; particularly in middle market deals. Pitchbook says so in a report released last week. In their study of H1 data Pitchbook forecasts that middle market deal counts will reach 3,400 by the end of the year, with values of as much as $345 billion. That would make it the third-best year for middle market PE deals, ever. If you want particulars, look no further than this week's CDT Roundup, in which 13 of last week's 16 M&A/Funding deals involved some form of PE participation. The Roundup even has the names of the lawyers behind them.
Norton Rose Fulbright announced Tuesday that it has hired a new partner — Gabriella Orengo Lyons — for its corporate, M&A and securities practice in Dallas.
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