Plano’s At Home Group to Go Private in PE Buyout
Funds affiliated with private equity giant Hellman & Friedman plan to purchase Plano home decor retailer At Home in a deal valued at $2.8 billion. Two New York-based firms advised on the transaction.
Country’s Largest Gas Producer to Acquire Assets From Houston’s Alta in $2.925B Deal
Thirty-one Texas lawyers from Latham & Watkins, Kirkland & Ellis and in-house counsel are playing a role as EQT Corp. enters a purchase agreement for hundreds of thousands of acres in the Marcellus Shale held by Houston's Alta Resources.
CDT Roundup: 21 Deals, 16 Firms, 125 Lawyers, $7.2B
As businesses small and large angle for growth in the post-pandemic future, decision makers are eyeing the best means to raise capital, rebound to pre-Covid levels and stave off worries of a 2021 recession, according to Truist. In this week's CDT, more than 120 lawyers took part in 21 deals.
Mergermarket Names Top 50 M&A Dealmaking Firms for Texas Clients in Q1
Only five of the Mergermarket top 50 law firms representing Texas businesses in M&A during Q1 2021 are headquartered in Texas. Two dozen firms increased their count, a dozen saw declines in their M&A activity. And what the hell is up with Ropes & Gray?
Summit Utilities Acquires Arkansas, Oklahoma Assets from CenterPoint Energy
CenterPoint Energy plans to shed LDC assets and $425 million in unrecovered storm-related natural gas costs with its latest transaction.
CDT Roundup: 8 Deals, 9 Firms, 31 Lawyers, $20.2B
Private equity exits have been morphing in recent years, according to PitchBook. As sponsor-to-sponsor exits lagged, slack was gobbled up by corporate acquisitions and public listings; or rather, public listings by way of corporate acquisitions by SPACs. Texas, however, might just be bucking the national trend to some extent. The CDT Roundup explains, along with its usual review of last week's transactions.
Top 50 Q1 M&A Deals with Texas HQ (2021)
These are the top non-confidential M&A deals for the first quarter of 2021 as provided by Mergermarket.
Mergermarket Sizes Up Q1 in Texas With Fewer Deals at Higher Values
The deal count may have fallen between Q1 2020 and 2021, but values are climbing. Here's a look at the latest quarter's transaction sizes from Mergermarket.
CDT Roundup: 14 Deals, 8 Firms, 102 Lawyers, $6.27B
Texas E&P and oilfield services executives see activity rising as cautious optimism returns. That's according to the Dallas Fed's quarterly energy survey. The Texas Lawbook dives into the report, in addition to the latest transactions, in this week's Corporate Deal Tracker.
Texas Tech Sector Hot in M&A for Q1
The latest Mergermarket data provided exclusively to The Texas Lawbook reveals dealmaking in the Lone Star State is in-sync with broader global and U.S. M&A trends.
Q1 Mergermarket Breakdown: No Surprises as Texas M&A Continues to Rage
Deal count is down and values are up as the M&A rally continues in the Lone Star State. Here are some of the key takeaways from Mergermarket's latest report on Texas provided exclusively to The Texas Lawbook.
Cadence and BancorpSouth to Merge with Aid from Counsel in Dallas, Houston
Texas lawyers are playing a role in the all-stock merger of Houston's Cadence Bancorp. and Tupelo, Mississippi's BancorpSouth Bank valued at more than $6 billion.
