Corporate Deal Tracker: 2021 M&A Master List
The Corporate Deal Tracker 2021 M&A Master List had been updated through Sept. 30. The list has been designed to grow with firm contributions. Check in regularly as the list grows.
Desert Peak, Falcon to Combine in $1.9B Merger
Four law firms in Texas advised the various parties on the deal, which is expected to create a top mineral and royalty company with low leverage, an emphasis on shareholder returns and a big footprint in the Permian Basin and Eagle Ford.
CDT Roundup: 13 Deals, 11 Firms, 102 Lawyers, $8.3B
The oil & gas sector may have lost cachet, but its importance to Texas is enduring. And projections for investment in O&G and LNG show that 2022 isn't going to change that. That and the lawyers who moved last week's deals in the CDT Roundup.
Capital Markets Will Power the Energy Evolution
The world is embarking on what may be one of the greatest transformations since the Industrial Revolution, and it is a good bet Texas will have a role to play.
Enterprise buys Warburg-backed Navitas for $3.25B
The transaction, which surprised analysts, continues a wave of consolidation in the midstream industry. The Lawbook's Claire Poole has all the lawyers involved in the deal.
Blackstone Plows $3B into Invenergy
Blackstone Infrastructure said Friday that it is investing $3 billion into Invenergy Renewables Holdings. Blackstone says the price tag represents one of the largest investments into renewables in North American history. Claire Poole has the names of the Texas lawyers involved.
Skadden’s Bayouth Moves to PE Firm
Frank Bayouth, a 30-year deal partner at Skadden in Houston, has joined a longtime client as general counsel.
CDT Roundup: 9 Deals, 6 Firms, 50 Lawyers, $1.3B
By almost any measure, 2021 ended as a pretty good year. But of all the high spots, the most notable is the return of the IPO. Last year, there were more initial public offerings than from 2016 through 2019 combined. More on that and the final deals of the year in the CDT Roundup.
The Top 10 M&A Deals of 2021
If for nothing else, 2021 is going to be remembered as the year business wrenched itself out of the clutches of the coronavirus pandemic, or at least learned to live with it. So regardless of the numbers the simple return to a normal business climate is something to celebrate. Here are 10 M&A deals from the year just passed that the CDT Roundup thinks are significant, regardless of size.
CDT Roundup: 21 Deals, 11 Firms, 176 Lawyers, $4.7B
There are fundamental changes taking place in healthcare and biotechnology transactions. As in energy deals, those changes involve more than the sums of their bottom lines. Two of the 21 deals in this week's CDT Roundup help make the point.
CDT Roundup: 26 Deals, 15 Firms, 193 Lawyers, $7.3B
As the year nears its end and oil prices begin to settle against the demand-threat posed by Omicron, it's a good time to point up the most obvious change in energy deals: a surge in equity investment in renewables and energy transition technologies. The change is real and, according to a new report from Vinson & Elkins, even O&G giants are acknowledging it. That report, and last week's transactions are all in this week's slightly tardy CDT Roundup.
CDT Roundup: 16 Deals, 10 Firms, 109 Lawyers, $5B
Just because concerns about O&G prices have been replaced by concerns about ESG doesn't mean that the old ways have vanished. For instance, hydraulic fracturing — in case you were wondering — never really disappeared. Not only is fracking back, next year could well bring a healthy rebound for use of the controversial process. Details on that, and the names of lawyers involved in last week's transactions are in this week's CDT Roundup.
