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CDT SNAPSHOT
11.7%
Nationwide, middle-market revenue rose 11.7 percent year-over-year in 2025, with 85 percent of companies growing and 53 percent achieving 10 percent-plus growth, according to an Ohio State University report.
CDT DATABASE YEAR-TO-DATE TRANSACTION TOTALS
MAR. 22, 2026
DEAL COUNT
94
DEAL VALUE
$415.5B
MAR. 22, 2025
DEAL COUNT
408
DEAL VALUE
$269.4B

Clearwater Paper Sells Tissue Business to Sofidel America

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman advised Spokane-based Clearwater on the deal, which included lawyers from Austin. Sofidel, a major provider of tissue products in Europe and eight states in the U.S., says it plans to continue its expansion in North American markets.

Allen Pusey

Darden Buys Chuy’s in $605M Deal

Out-of-state lawyers led the Hunton Andrews Kurth team that counseled the buyer and a Dallas group from Winston assisted the seller on the transaction, which comes with a 30-day "go-shop" period.

Claire Poole

CDT Roundup: 20 Deals, 14 Firms, 268 Lawyers, $17.2B

We've passed the halfway point of 2024, so it seems like a good time to make a periodic check of our own metrics. This week we look at the table that hides in plain sight inside our column and actually use it to measure what we've done; specifically, a statistical survey of the deal summaries we've published so far this year. As usual, the numbers are surprising, even to us; especially the number of names of lawyers that have showed up in the column. And, of course, we include even more names from the deals we received last week.

Claire Poole & Allen Pusey

UK M&A Transactions: Key Considerations for US Buyers

Despite a general slowdown in global mergers and acquisitions activity in recent years, certain U.S. buyers have continued to target U.K. businesses and assets for acquisition. Interest in the U.K. M&A market has been further supported by its perceived safety in a global macro environment that appears increasingly challenging. This article highlights key considerations for a U.S. buyer interested in pursuing an M&A transaction in the U.K., with specific notes relevant to Texas business.

Ed Tran & Mark Solomon

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CDT Roundup: 11 Deals, 11 Firms, 95 Lawyers, $3.9B

Deals are deals, unless they turn out not to be. The proposed $4 billion acquisition of Houston-based Mattress Firm by rival Tempur Sealy seemed like a deal. But the Federal Trade Commission last week voted 5-0 to stop the negotiations and sought to do so in a Houston federal court. The FTC complaint contains the usual language about protecting the U.S. consumer, but it also features allegations of retail bullying by Tempur Sealy along with 182-redactions to back that up. A discussion of that, and the usual fare of Texas-related deal summaries and the firms and lawyers involved, is in this week's CDT Roundup.

Claire Poole & Allen Pusey

Devon Energy Acquires EnCap Bakken Assets for $5B

Kirkland & Ellis and Vinson & Elkins advised on the upstream/midstream deal which includes more than 300,000 acres and a 950-mile gathering system. It marks the third major upstream transaction by Houston-based EnCap Investments in the past month.

Allen Pusey

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