The debt finance lawyer moves from Freshfields where he officed in New York.
Dallas Real Estate Partner Conrad Steele Returns to Jones Day
Steele, who started his career in private practice at Jones Day in 2015, was most recently at Winstead. He has handled large acquisitions of distressed hospitality loan portfolios, single-family housing portfolios, self-storage portfolios, and life sciences properties.
CDT Roundup: 12 Deals, 11 Firms, 136 Lawyers, $5.3B
Dykema’s 20th anniversary M&A Outlook Survey is grounded in optimism, a far cry from the doom-saying that characterizes these final days of the presidential race. The survey, taken between late July and early August suggests that M&A may well thrive between now and mid-2025. The CDT Roundup takes a look at the apparent reasoning behind such optimism, along with the usual list of Texas-related transactions reported last week.
Phillips 66 Sells Stake in Swiss Venture for $1.24B
As part of a promised $3 billion in divestitures, P66 is selling off its minority share in Coop Pronto, an operator of food-and-gas locations across Switzerland.
CDT Roundup: 17 Deals, 12 Firms, 150 Lawyers, $8.4B
Chevron’s announcement last week of a $6.5 billion divestiture of a couple of Canadian upstream interests reminded us that the California company is on the verge of relocating its C-Suite to Houston. But included, along with the household furniture and company file cabinets, is an ongoing beef with their new Texas neighbors, Exxon Mobil, over Chevron’s proposed $53 billion merger with Hess Corp. The CDT Roundup catches up with recent developments regarding the disputed merger, along with the usual list of firms and lawyers behind last week’s Texas-related transactions.
CDT Roundup: 22 Deals, 10 Firms, 189 Lawyers, $23.2B
There’s no way to play down 22 reported transactions for this week valued at more than $23 billion; it was a good week, especially when 15 of those are M&A and your capital markets deals include two IPOs. But in addition to the usual summary of all those deals, along with the firms and lawyers behind them, we take our quarterly look at the number of publicly-reported transactions we’ve handled in the CDT Roundup thus far in 2024.
Three Dealmakers Bolt Winston for Jones Day
Rodney Moore, Samuel Peca and Scott Delaney — all veterans of Weil — are headed to Jones Day after less than two years at Winston & Strawn.
CDT Roundup: 11 Deals, 7 Firms, 144 Lawyers, $2.4B
The Dallas Fed each quarter surveys executives from six different business sectors. The Fed’s surveys for the third quarter were released last week. The CDT Roundup looks at the one on energy, which reveals a peculiar lack of enthusiasm for a sector rampant with M&A. That, and the usual review of the firms and lawyers behind last week’s modest number of transactions.
Amber Energy Acquires CITGO in Court-ordered Sale
A special master for a federal court in Delaware has named Amber Energy Inc. as its court-approved bidder for CITGO, one of the largest refiners and distributors of petroleum products in the U.S. The sale, which values Houston-based CITGO at $7.28 billion, is aimed at settling some of the $21.3 billion in claims against CITGO’s former owners, the state-controlled energy company of Venezuela.
AT&T Sells DirecTV to TPG for $7.6B; DirecTV acquires rival Dish for $1 and $9.75B Debt
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.
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