The well-documented influx to Texas of folks from other states brings with a whole new set of needs: more schools, more roads, more public facilities of every kind. In 2021, public finance attempted to keep pace with nearly 2,100 issues worth more than $61 billion. Bond attorneys expect a vigorous 2022, but a few caution lights are beginning to flicker. Some are wondering if the raw need for infrastructure improvements can overcome a fickle public appetite for new projects and increasingly intrusive legislative scrutiny. Nushin Huq reports.
Kirkland, Sidley, V&E, Latham Top CDT’s 2021 Law Firm M&A Rankings in Texas
Texas lawyers feasted on mergers and acquisitions in 2021. The Texas offices of Kirkland & Ellis did the most deals — though Sidley, Vinson & Elkins and Latham & Watkins were crazy busy. The Texas Lawbook‘s Corporate Deal Tracker lists the law firms that were involved in a record-smashing 929 corporate deals last year and the dealmakers who led those transactions.
Correction:The Texas Lawbook, in an earlier version of this article, undercounted the deal count and deal value for Gibson Dunn, Haynes and Boone and Locke Lord. We apologize for this error.
CDT Roundup: 11 Deals, 8 Firms, 99 Lawyers, $2.5B
Texas M&A staged a comeback year in 2021 with some astonishing deal numbers. But behind those numbers lies some interesting changes in the business sectors that both gained and changed. Some are obvious, like healthcare and infrastructure; but some are not so obvious, like food. The CDT Roundup looks at some of those numbers and, in particular, one food deal that typifies several ways in which the food sector is changing, along with last week’s dealmaking and the firms involved.
DBJ: Generational Group Adds Tech Consulting through Recent Acquisition
Over the last few years, Generational has expanded its practice from lower-middle-market mergers and acquisitions to advisory services across life cycles.
DBJ: PE/M&A Lawyers Switch Firms, Talk How to Get Deals Done
Whit Roberts and Jack Jacobsen spoke with the Dallas Business Journal about the M&A landscape and their deal pipelines.
M&A 2021: A Year Beyond ‘Even the Wildest Expectations’
Texas M&A boomed in Texas in 2021 — in value, in deal count and in ways that bode well for 2022. According to exclusive data from The Texas Lawbook’s Corporate Deal Tracker, each month of 2021 outperformed 2020 year-over-year. There were more deals at basically every level — for $1 million or $1 billion or beyond. Whether in energy or healthcare, construction or infrastructure, technology or transportation, it was a year that rebounded from the pandemic beyond the most optimistic expectations. The Lawbook has the numbers, the tables and the views of deal lawyers across the state of what was, from virtually any perspective, a very remarkable year.