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CDT ANNUAL DATA SUBMISSION DEADLINE
Jan. 7 (5 p.m.)
Firms and lawyers who wish to be considered for the year-end CDT leaderboard rankings for M&A and CapM must submit their deals for the fourth quarter by Jan. 7, 2026, at 5 p.m. For more information, contact Christi Trammell at christi.trammell@texaslawbook.net.
CDT DATABASE YEAR-TO-DATE TRANSACTION TOTALS
NOV. 30, 2025
DEAL COUNT
1,108
DEAL VALUE
$884.4B
NOV. 30, 2024
DEAL COUNT
1,363
DEAL VALUE
$778.1B

Kimberly-Clark Buys Kenvue in $48.7B Deal that Forms Consumer Products Monolith

Kimberly-Clark Corp. said Monday that it has agreed to acquire Kenvue Inc. in a cash and stock deal that values the maker of Tylenol, which was spun off by Johnson & Johnson in 2023, at about $48.7 billion.

Kirkland & Ellis is Kimberly-Clark’s outside legal counsel and Grant McGee is the company’s general counsel. In-house lawyers for Kimberly-Clark who assisted McGee on the deal included vice president and deputy general counsel Courtney Roane on M&A activities and vice president and deputy general counsel Suzana Blades on litigation matters, as well as vice president, deputy general counsel and chief compliance officer Adam Crawford on regulatory matters.

Jason Philyaw

The Art of the Complicated Deal: Dealmakers Level Up

Deals involving hundreds of millions and billions of dollars are, by their nature, complicated. But over the past two years, publicly reported deals, even as described in their regulatory releases, have grown more intricate and detailed. The reasons vary from deal to deal, but complexity has become a near constant.

Allen Pusey

Welcome to the New CDT: More Data, Deals and Dealmakers

The Corporate Deal Tracker enters a new era today with news, analysis and data that the M&A community has never seen and that has been years in the planning.

The Texas Lawbook launched the Corporate Deal Tracker in 2015 as a simple database that identified transactions — mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and capital markets — handled by lawyers in Texas.

A decade later, The Lawbook is relaunching an expanded and enhanced version of the signature product. And the lawyers — the dealmakers themselves — remain the primary focus with the CDT.

Mark Curriden

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UT San Antonio CLO Hailey Mullican Led ‘Historic Merger with Transformative Impact’

In September, the University of Texas San Antonio completed a merger with UT Health that legal experts agree was one of the most unique and complex deals of 2025 and will create the third-largest public research university in Texas and is expected to generate $7 billion in economic impact for San Antonio. “The merger is probably the most important decision the board of regents have made in the last 50 years,” UTSA CLO Hailey Mullican told The Texas Lawbook, pointing out that the deal was handled completely in-house. “Pretty quickly, the team realized that no one really knew how to do this. And I mean no one."

The Association of Corporate Counsel’s San Antonio Chapter and The Lawbook are awarding the 2025 San Antonio Corporate Counsel Award for M&A Transaction of the Year to Mullican and her legal team at UT San Antonio.

Mark Curriden

Huntington Expands in Texas and Across the South with Purchase of Cadence Bank for $7.4B

Another week means another bank consolidation in Texas. Huntington Bancshares said Monday that it is acquiring Cadence Bank in a stock swap valued at about $7.4 billion. Cadence — with dual headquarters in Houston and Tupelo, Miss. — has more than 390 locations across Texas and the South.

Wachtell and Sullivan & Cromwell advised on the deal. Cadence's Houston-based chief legal officer is Shanna Kuzdzal, who replaced the bank's longtime in-house leader Chuck Pignuolo in 2023 when he retired.

Jason Philyaw

JERA Acquires Haynesville Shale Assets for $1.5B

The Japanese power company was advised by Baker Botts on the deal with Williams Companies and GEP Haynesville II, its JV with GeoSouthern Energy. The acquisition builds on JERA's existing longterm contracts with Gulf Coast LNG exporters.

Allen Pusey

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