Allete Agrees to $6.2B Buyout by CPPIB, GIP
Kirkland & Ellis counseled the acquiring consortium with a team led by corporate partners Melissa Kalka, Emily Lichtenheld and Andy Calder.
Andrew Lehman Reunites with Akin’s Houston Office
Andrew Lehman is returning to Akin as a partner in its private equity practice, the firm announced today in a news release.
CDT Roundup: 10 Deals, 6 Firms, 28 Lawyers, $6.7B
M&A is "slowly on the mend," according to a new PitchBook report on global M&A activity. But like most statements of fact these days, that may depend on your point of view. In the first three months of 2024, M&A is down from Q4 2023, but that's okay. That previous quarter contained a few blockbuster deals and set a record valuation for energy M&A. The CDT Roundup this week looks a bit closer at the PitchBook metrics and even closer at the transactions reported last week. There are a few numbers that may surprise you.
CDT Roundup: 19 Deals, 11 Firms, 147 Lawyers, $16B
In addition to its usual fare, the CDT Roundup this week includes a quarterly accounting of the volume and value of deals Texas firms reported to us during the first 13 weeks of 2024. It turns out we've logged a lot of lawyer names. We have that number, too.
CDT Roundup: 13 Deals, 9 Firms, 76 Lawyers, $9B
The Roundup swings its spotlight in a different direction this week to focus on the fund formation world and a young lawyer to be reckoned with, Simpson Thacher partner Linda Tieh. The Harvard-trained lawyer earned her undergrad degree from the University of Texas, holds bar cards in New York and Texas and finds herself front and center in some of the largest and most complicated deals we cover, including our largest transaction this week. Claire Poole has more on Tieh's remarkable resume of transactions, as well as the usual summary of last week's deals.
Prysmian Picks up Encore Wire for $4.1B
The McKinney, Texas-based target is expected to expand the Italian cable maker further into North America. O'Melveny, with a group including Dallas attorneys, advised Encore Wire on the deal.
Jacqui Bogucki Returning to Weil
Jacqui Bogucki, a highly regarded transactional lawyer specializing in infrastructure deals, has left Simpson Thacher for Weil, Gotshal & Manges in Houston. She's the fifth partner to join Weil's Houston office in the last year.
CDT Roundup: 23 Deals, 14 Firms, 222 Lawyers, $22.6B
We know it's routine for to push some older deals our way at the end of each quarter. Here at the CDT Roundup we sometimes imagine firms pulling out pockets and searching under seat cushions for league table qualifiers they might have missed. But sometimes in the late-arriving flotsam we find deal work worthy of mention, even though it has appeared on our doorstep a tad late. Such is the case of Justin Hoffman, a partner at Winston & Strawn in Houston, whose work leading more than a few capital markets transactions attracted our attention. We look at a few of those deals and a take in a few observations about his practice along with the usual summaries of last week's transactions and the lawyers behind them.
