Vital, NOG buy assets owned by Vortus-backed Point for $1.1B
Gibson Dunn advised Vital on the deal while Akin assisted Point and Vortus. Kirkland counseled NOG, its second joint acquisition with Vital in the Delaware Basin.
Casey’s to Acquire CEFCO Convenience Stores in $1.45B Deal
The all-cash transaction adds 148 stores in Texas and another 50 across Mississippi, Florida and Alabama. Paul Weiss, Cleary Gottlieb and Fort Worth's Bourland, Wall & Wenzel advised.
Simpson Thacher’s Houston Office Advised on KKR/T-Mobile Metronet Deal
Corporate partners Breen Haire and Shamus Crosby advised on the creation of a joint venture with T-Mobile to secure Metronet, along with its two million broadband customers across 17 states.
Helmerich & Payne Buys KCA Deutag for $1.97B
A mostly Houston team from Kirkland & Ellis advised Tulsa-based buyer and A&O Shearman assisted the Scottish target, which would establish H&P as a global leader in onshore drilling.
The First Half of 2024: The Role of Billion-Dollar Deals
Nothing says Texas M&A better than a billion-dollar deal. And in the first half of 2024, there were plenty of them.
Recidivist Acquiror IDEX Buys Mott for $1B
Sidley, led out of Dallas, advised the publicly traded IDEX. Cooley assisted the employee-owned Mott, which fits the buyer's "sweet spot" of highly engineered, configurable mission-critical components.
CDT Roundup: 15 Deals, 14 Firms, 184 Lawyers, $16B
The CDT Roundup occasionally spotlights a lawyer whose pops up in connection with one of our larger deals. Mitch Tiras has popped up lots of times over the years, this last week in connection with the $1.54 billion Quanta Services acquisition of Cupertino Electric. We take a quick look at his recent work, along with the usual list of deals reported last week and the lawyers behind them.
Woodside Purchases Tellurian for $1.2B
A mostly Texas team from Akin Gump advised Tellurian while Norton Rose Fulbright advised Woodside, which the Australian company claims positions it to be a global LNG powerhouse.
