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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?
CenterPoint Energy plans to shed LDC assets and $425 million in unrecovered storm-related natural gas costs with its latest transaction.
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.
These are the top non-confidential M&A deals for the first quarter of 2021 as provided by Mergermarket.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In what comes as no surprise, global M&A activity continued to surge in the first quarter of 2021 – and SPACs and private equity buyouts are some of the key talking points. A little closer to home, Texas dealmakers had a slower week this time around in the latest installment of the Corporate Deal Tracker roundup.
Things may be looking up – if only slightly – as producers, lenders, private equity firms and others chime in on the state of borrowing bases and more as part of Haynes and Boone's semi-annual energy reports.
Consolidation is taking over legacy energy transactions. That's not only expected, but maybe necessary given the restructuring that's taking place in the industry itself. But however inevitable, it also has to be profitable; stockholders demand it. And that's becoming the crux of the problem in energy deals. The CDT explains the dilemma, along with the usual inventory of last week's deals.
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