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$61.5 Billion
The week is off to a fast start for Kirkland's Kim Hicks. She co-led two megadeals: the $12.8 billion merger of Civitas and SM Energy and Kimberly-Clark's blockbuster acquisition of Kenvue, valued at $48.7 billion.
CDT DATABASE YEAR-TO-DATE TRANSACTION TOTALS
NOV. 2, 2025
DEAL COUNT
1,021
DEAL VALUE
$770.3B
NOV. 2, 2024
DEAL COUNT
1,264
DEAL VALUE
$676.4B

Rahul Vashi Jumps from Kirkland to Gibson Dunn

Rahul Vashi led or co-led 14 transactions for Kirkland & Ellis with a combined value of $3.2 billion, including Devon Energy’s $1.8 billion acquisition of Denver-based Validus Energy, according to The Texas Lawbook’s Corporate Deal Tracker. Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher believes Vashi will have the same success for it.

Mark Curriden

CDT Roundup: 12 Deals, 10 Firms, 101 Lawyers, $7B

With oil prices both up and stable Bryan Loocke of Vinson & Elkins has been as busy as any Houston energy lawyer. The CDT Roundup decided it was time to Q&A him: about his most recent deals, renewables and what he sees happening over the rest of the year. You can even learn what he's been reading, along with the usual list of firms and names of the lawyers who reported their deals last week.

Claire Poole

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CDT Roundup: 20 Deals, 18 Firms, 196 Lawyers, $3.3B

While the economy is encountering stress in some areas, some firms are reporting high levels of activity for their Texas corporate lawyers during the first months of 2023. One of them is Dykema, and the Corporate Deal Tracker Roundup this week peeks at what their five Texas locations have been up to. Of course, it wouldn't be a roundup without rounding up the names of lawyers and firms that reported 20 deals worth $3.3 billion last week. There was even an IPO sighting — and a standard IPO at that.

Claire Poole

CDT Roundup: 23 Deals, 18 Firms, 135 Lawyers, $3.7B

If oil and gas producers (and their lenders, and their investors) seem ill-at-ease these days, it's not imaginary. Haynes Boone's Spring 2023 survey of the O&G deal community suggests they are pessimistic about the near-term availability of capital and are looking at a variety of sources to maintain growth and profitability — sources that increasingly include their own cash flow. This week's CDT Roundup has the specifics of the survey, which included 96 top executives from the industry and the banks that lend to them. And, as usual, there are the names of the Texas firms and lawyers behind the 23 deals reported last week.

Claire Poole & Allen Pusey

CDT Roundup: 16 Deals, 14 Firms, 104 Lawyers, $5.6B

This being Year Three of the Covid 19 pandemic, technically speaking/writing, it may come as no surprise that healthcare deals are becoming a thing, even in Texas. The Corporate Deal Tracker counted 55 Texas-related healthcare deals in 2022, up from just 10 the year previous. This week's CDT Roundup looks at the kinds of deals that are leading the recent rise in healthcare transactions — including a recent $2.1 billion transaction — along with the usual roll call of the firms and lawyers who reported in last week.

Claire Poole

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