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The deal helps resolve regulatory pressures on EchoStar to use or lose federal licensing in the mid-band and low-band spectrum. The deal was handled in-house for AT&T with help from Sullivan & Cromwell and Arnold & Porter.
V&E, Kirkland and Gibson Dunn were among the advisors on the deal which secures a spot for Crescent among the top ten independent oil and gas producers in the region.
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison served as lead counsel for Keurig Dr Pepper in its landmark $18.4 billion acquisition of Dutch coffee giant JDE Peet’s, alongside the in-house lawyers of KDP's team. Paul Weiss continues to be a central legal adviser in high-profile Texas transactions, even as it eyes its first office in the state. A&O Shearman advised JDE Peet's.
The week ending Aug. 23 saw 23 deals for just over $15.2 billion. The deals included three transactions — in media, oil and gas and electrical services — which together accounted for $13.6 billion, amounting to 90 percent of the total. But the week saw a slurry of PE transactions, most of them in the electrical, HVAC or data services sectors and they involved a broad variety of interesting businesses. That and more in this week's CDT Roundup.
The deal for Shermco, advised by Vinson & Elkins and Kirkland & Ellis, is the latest in a slew of electric power, HVAC and water services acquisitions aimed at data center infrastructure support.
Publicly traded Nexstar Media Group, the nation's largest owner of local television broadcast stations in the U.S., announced Tuesday that it is acquiring TEGNA Inc. and its 65 local stations in 51 markets, including 15 stations in 12 markets in Texas. Kirkland & Ellis, Wiley Rein, Morrison Foerster, Wachtell and Covington & Burling advised on the deal. (Photo by Kristoffer Tripplaar/Sipa USA via AP Images)
In what has proven to be an increasingly uneven deal environment week-over-week this year, there’s been a steady stream of billion-dollar transactions to kick off the third quarter. Good news, right? Sure, but the devil is in the details. Even with lingering uncertainties around interest rates and geopolitical tensions (both kinetic and trade), Texas lawyers were part of nine major deals exceeding $1 billion since the beginning of July. The transactions span multiple sectors, from energy infrastructure to data centers, highlighting the state's continued appeal as a hub for transformative corporate combos and tie-ups. The Lawbook recently asked Texas dealmakers with extensive experience handling billion-dollar transactions to share their perspectives on the current M&A environment, including their assessment of the first half of the year, the third quarter so far and their outlook moving forward.
The week ending August 16 saw 13 deals for $26 billion. At first blush that meshes nicely with the week prior, which saw 19 deals valued at $16 billion. But don't be deceived. Of those 19 deals in the prior week, 15 of the volume (and $11 million of their value) were for M&A or fundings. Last week saw only seven M&A/Fundings valued in total at just over $3 billion. And the big deal of the week was a capital markets filing: a $20 billion upgrade in a previously announced At-The-Market issue for a crypto miner. That's a questionable week masking as a blockbuster. That and more in this edition of CDT Roundup.
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