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CDT ANNUAL DATA SUBMISSION DEADLINE
Jan. 7 (5 p.m.)
Firms and lawyers who wish to be considered for the year-end CDT leaderboard rankings for M&A and CapM must submit their deals for the fourth quarter by Jan. 7, 2026, at 5 p.m. For more information, contact Christi Trammell at christi.trammell@texaslawbook.net.
CDT DATABASE YEAR-TO-DATE TRANSACTION TOTALS
DEC. 21, 2025
DEAL COUNT
1,208
DEAL VALUE
$943.6B
DEC. 21, 2024
DEAL COUNT
1,438
DEAL VALUE
$820.6B

Texas Lawyers to Feast on New Energy Law

Energy transition attorneys are gearing up for an uptick innovation investment and M&A activity expected to be spurred by the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act. The IRA, signed yesterday by President Biden, contains $369 billion of climate and clean energy provisions, as well as $60 billion for environmental justice initiatives and provides incentives for substantial investments in rural communities. Significant to the Texas economy, the new law significantly rewrites the tax incentives for renewable energy and climate change mitigation under the federal tax code.

Nushin Huq

CDT Roundup: 18 Deals, 11 Firms, 242 Lawyers, $8B

In the first half of 2022, capital markets transactions reported by Texas lawyers were noticeable in their absence; but apparently, no more. What began as a summer in languish has heated up over the past few weeks. The Texas numbers mirror the broader market, according to a report by Enverus last week. The CDT Roundup has its own observations, as well as the usual listing of the recent deals Texas lawyers have been working on.

Claire Poole

CDT Roundup: 24 Deals, 12 Firms, 240 Lawyers, $7.9B

Last week's 24 deals were plentiful and diverse: software for company benchmarking, energy distribution in Brazil, a Turkish mobile provider, recycled aggregates, carbon capture, aerial firefighting and even an upstream deal or two. But eyes are still on SPAC deals, which are facing some investor headwinds, and there were a few of them as well. The CDT Roundup explains and, as usual, names lots of names.

Claire Poole

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K/G’s Ryan Gravelle: “We’re a startup; we just sell legal widgets.”

Kastner Gravelle founding partner Ryan Gravelle wasn’t always a tech lawyer, but he says he got there as fast as he could. In this Q&A, the Austin corporate lawyer talks about the climate for startup funding and M&A for tech companies, competitors that have moved to Austin and how a potential recession will affect Austin's tech community. 

Claire Poole

CDT Roundup: 8 Deals, 9 Firms, 78 Lawyers, $6.9B

There are two energy deals this week — the week's two largest deals, in fact — that are both more, and less, than they seem. While on the surface they involve the mergers of large energy corporations, they are simply simplifications of two large corporate structures. What's going on here? The Corporate Deal Tracker Roundup has the details, as well as the names of all of the Texas lawyers behind this week's deals.

Claire Poole

CDT: H1 2022 – A Time for Smaller Deals

The first half of the year in Texas M&A was dominated by the mid- to lower-market transactions, according to data gathered by The Texas Lawbook Corporate Deal Tracker. Although dealmaking was robust, the values of those deals declined dramatically. Of 507 deals reported by Texas lawyers, only a handful were valued at $5 billion or more, and deals valued at more than $1 billion declined dramatically from 2021. On the other hand, deals valued under $100 million help push the year's deal counts to impressive levels. The Texas Lawbook has the details.

Allen Pusey & Mark Curriden

Texas M&A Lawyers Look Ahead: More of the Same, Maybe

This week, The Texas Lawbook published new Corporate Deal Tracker data showing M&A lawyers were busier during the first six months of 2022 than they have ever been. The article quoted several of the state’s leading dealmakers on the trends they saw during H1 2022. Now, we asked those same M&A lawyers to look into their crystal balls for the second half of the year? The bottom line: Opinions differed.

Claire Poole

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