Huntsman’s general counsel and chief compliance officer led the company’s in-house team and received assistance from a Kirkland group that included Houston lawyers.
Houston Firm Joins Billion-Dollar Club
Wilson Cribbs and Goren’s Tony Marré and Derek Pershing recently reached the $1 billion mark for real estate deals handled over the last year-and-a-half, trading around everything from luxury apartments to retail centers to storage facilities. Marré talks about what’s fueling all the work – and what may be to come.
CDT Roundup: 13 Deals, 12 Firms, 108 Lawyers, $5.76B
There is some anxiety ahead of this week’s expected approval by Anadarko Petroleum shareholders of the company’s $38 billion sale to Occidental Petroleum. Though approval won’t likely thwart Carl Icahn’s proxy fight, it will allow Oxy to size-up assets whose sale might help pay down the transaction’s sizable debt. In her weekly Roundup, Claire Poole discusses the ramifications along with a week’s worth of Texas M&A deals.
Kirkland Poaches Real Estate Partner from Jones Day
Andrew Van Noord is the first real estate capital markets attorney in the one-year-old Dallas office and is bringing along an associate.
Texas Lawyers Behind Three Billion-Dollar-Plus Deals
Attorneys at the Texas offices of Jones Day, Orrick, Shearman and Gibson Dunn help paper up big transactions for Britain’s BBA Aviation, France’s Veolia and a JV between Colombia’s Ecopetrol and Oxy.
CDT Roundup: 11 Deals, 13 Firms, 76 Lawyers, $7.3B
Will the deal machine keep churning? With worries over the U.S. economy and trade tensions, some aren’t so sure. But PwC thinks M&A will remain active, with technology dominant. Claire Poole explores the firm’s analysis plus provides highlights of the deal week that was among Texas lawyers.
Darwin Bruce Sees Gold in Small-to-Middle Market M&A
Darwin Bruce, former long-time GC for T.D. Jakes, is pioneering a new initiative designed to significantly improve M&A and CapM opportunities for small and middle market business community in Texas. The lower middle market is woefully underserved, even though those are the businesses driving the economy, but Bruce says he plans to fix that.
DBJ: Merger Agreement Terminated between CEC Entertainment, Leo Holdings
CEC Entertainment, owner of Chuck E. Cheese and Peter Piper Pizza and part of Queso Holdings Inc., announced that its merger agreement with Leo Holdings Corp. (NYSE: LHC) has been
HuntonAK, V&E advise on Osaka’s $610M Sabine Oil purchase
Osaka’s purchase of Houston-based Sabine will give it the target’s entire natural gas position in East Texas and make it the first Japanese acquirer of a U.S. shale gas developer. Claire Poole has the details.
Evercore Back as the Top-Ranked Dealmaker for Texas Companies in H1
Financial advisor Evercore edged out Jefferies in Texas M&A dealmaking for the first half of 2019, according to the latest stats from Mergermarket. Claire Poole has the rest of the first half results, including the value rankings.