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The five-partner team — highlighted by Whit Roberts and Jack Jacobsen, two Locke Lord lifers — includes three who have held firm or department-wide leadership roles. This latest move brings O'Melveny's Texas partner total to 15, with more lateral poaching expected by the Los Angeles-headquartered firm.
Glenn West considers himself a private equity lawyer. But over his 43-year career, he’s advised on everything from real estate and oil and gas to sports deals to acquisition finance to restructuring.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Frank Bayouth, a 30-year deal partner at Skadden in Houston, has joined a longtime client as general counsel.
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.
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.
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.
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