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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

CDT Roundup: 19 Deals, 13 Firms, 184 Lawyers, $9.7B

Of course, having noted the continued primacy of the energy industry in Texas dealmaking of late, we hit a week when there are none. Moreover, capital markets came roaring back last week with a dozen deals reported, the most reported for a single week in more than two years. Claire Poole takes a closer look at those deals and the lawyers behind them this week in the CDT Roundup.

Claire Poole

Elite Law Firms in Texas Lead H1 2023 M&A Law Firm Rankings

The Corporate Deal Tracker M&A rankings of law firms in Texas witnessed a shake up during the first six months of 2023. Last year, Texas lawyers at two firms each worked on 80 M&A deals. No firm worked on more than 66 during the same period this year. Seven firms handled 30 deals or more during H1 in 2022, but only three did it this year. Fifty-four law firms with attorneys in Texas reported M&A transactions during H1 and 17 of them worked on 10 or more deals. And 25 firms in Texas reported working on deals with combined values of $1 billion or more during H1 2023, up from 19 during the same period last year. The CDT top 10 has three new members. The top six also witnessed a shakeup.

Mark Curriden & Christi Trammell

CDT Roundup: 13 Deals, 12 Firms, 118 Lawyers, $5.2B

In March and April, the market for M&A looked pretty thin. A few high-profile bank failures and strong employment figures fed worries about the future. That pessimism seems to have passed, according to Texas dealmakers consulted by the CDT Roundup. We have their forecasts for the coming months, as well as the usual listing of deals and dealmakers reporting last week.

Claire Poole

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The Five Most Important Deals of 2023 — So Far

There were 395 Texas-related M&A deals during the first six months of the year. The biggest aren't always the most consequential; context matters. The Lawbook's Claire Poole asked a few Texas M&A experts to choose five from among them the 395 that seem most important to the current market.

Claire Poole

CDT Roundup: 15 Deals, 13 Firms, 19 Lawyers, $21B

According to a recent report by PitchBook, private equity deals are a mixed bag of late: deal count up a wisp from Q1; deal value down double-digits. Is that terrible? Maybe not. The Roundup looked at the numbers from PitchBook and there are a few surprises and maybe a little perspective; that, along with the usual run-down of the week's M&A deals.

Claire Poole & Allen Pusey

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