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The CDT has documented 9,481 individual deals handled by Texas lawyers between Jan. 1, 2018, and Sept. 30, 2025. Of those, 6,926 were led or co-led by lawyers from Texas — 554 of them were valued at $1 billion or more.
CDT DATABASE YEAR-TO-DATE TRANSACTION TOTALS
NOV. 16, 2025
DEAL COUNT
1,081
DEAL VALUE
$869.3B
NOV. 16, 2024
DEAL COUNT
1,253
DEAL VALUE
$674.3B

Texas M&A Law Firm Rankings Q1-Q3

The Texas lawyers at 12 corporate law firms were involved as lead counsel in 20 or more M&A deals during the first nine months of 2022. Four firms were lead legal advisors in more than 60 deals. One firm saw its attorneys in Austin, Dallas and Houston hit triple digits in deal count for lead legal advisors during the first three quarters of 2022.

The Texas Lawbook has released its exclusive Corporate Deal Tracker M&A law firm rankings for Jan. 1 through Sept. 30. The mission is to document transactional work done by lawyers in the Lone Star state.

Allen Pusey & Mark Curriden

CDT Roundup: 21 Deals, 15 Firms, 212 Lawyers, $2.9B

As financing costs continue to endure at higher levels, no region seems to have been spared a drop in deal value — even when deals continue at an active pace. A recent Mergermarket report notes that even in the southern U.S., often a statistical outlier, the value of mergers and acquisitions are depressed as smaller deals in sectors like technology and communications gain in number. The CDT Roundup has more on the Mergermarket report, naming a few of the big deals that led the quarter — along with a cavalcade of Texas lawyers who reported their involvement in 21 transactions last week.

Claire Poole

GOP Missive to ESG Practitioners: Real Threat or Political Theater?

Whatever its purpose or intent, a letter from five GOP senators to 51 lawyers involved in ESG transactions at their firms was mystifying to those who would talk about it. Sent five days in advance of the recent mid-term elections, the threatening tone of the letters was in keeping with a series of attempts to curb, through their lawyers, corporate support for environmental mandates, energy transition investments and changes in corporate governance — despite increasingly vocal and influential investor demand.

Allen Pusey

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CDT Roundup: 13 Deals, 9 Firms, 81 Lawyers, $14.8B

So much attention has been given to energy and energy transition that it would be easy to overlook other business sectors that make up the Texas M&A market. Take the healthcare sector, for instance. Healthcare has become a new favorite among PE investors, according to PitchBook. This week's Roundup looks at a few of the reasons for that, as well as healthcare stats for Texas. All that, and the usual roster of lawyers involved in last week's Texas-related transactions.

Claire Poole

CDT Roundup: 25 Deals, 16 Firms, 509 Lawyers, $19B

Is the M&A market becoming a competition between "haves" and "have nots?" Maybe so, according to a recently released survey of nationwide dealmakers conducted by Dykema. Nearly two-thirds of respondents expect the U.S. M&A market to improve in the coming year. But for whom? Where companies with record amounts of cash on hand see opportunity, those who operate as borrowers see obstacles. The Roundup has more on the Dykema report, along with more than 500 names of mostly-Texas lawyers who worked on 25 deals reported last week to the Corporate Deal Tracker. It was, in that way, a record-breaking week.

Claire Poole

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