Skadden’s Bayouth Moves to PE Firm
Frank Bayouth, a 30-year deal partner at Skadden in Houston, has joined a longtime client as general counsel.
CDT Roundup: 9 Deals, 6 Firms, 50 Lawyers, $1.3B
By almost any measure, 2021 ended as a pretty good year. But of all the high spots, the most notable is the return of the IPO. Last year, there were more initial public offerings than from 2016 through 2019 combined. More on that and the final deals of the year in the CDT Roundup.
The Top 10 M&A Deals of 2021
If for nothing else, 2021 is going to be remembered as the year business wrenched itself out of the clutches of the coronavirus pandemic, or at least learned to live with it. So regardless of the numbers the simple return to a normal business climate is something to celebrate. Here are 10 M&A deals from the year just passed that the CDT Roundup thinks are significant, regardless of size.
CDT Roundup: 21 Deals, 11 Firms, 176 Lawyers, $4.7B
There are fundamental changes taking place in healthcare and biotechnology transactions. As in energy deals, those changes involve more than the sums of their bottom lines. Two of the 21 deals in this week's CDT Roundup help make the point.
CDT Roundup: 26 Deals, 15 Firms, 193 Lawyers, $7.3B
As the year nears its end and oil prices begin to settle against the demand-threat posed by Omicron, it's a good time to point up the most obvious change in energy deals: a surge in equity investment in renewables and energy transition technologies. The change is real and, according to a new report from Vinson & Elkins, even O&G giants are acknowledging it. That report, and last week's transactions are all in this week's slightly tardy CDT Roundup.
CDT Roundup: 16 Deals, 10 Firms, 109 Lawyers, $5B
Just because concerns about O&G prices have been replaced by concerns about ESG doesn't mean that the old ways have vanished. For instance, hydraulic fracturing — in case you were wondering — never really disappeared. Not only is fracking back, next year could well bring a healthy rebound for use of the controversial process. Details on that, and the names of lawyers involved in last week's transactions are in this week's CDT Roundup.
Q&A with Katten Healthcare Expert Lisa Prather
The non-stop, day-to-day challenges posed by the pandemic and the feverish activity by private equity firms in the healthcare space have kept Lisa Prather exceptionally busy over the past 20 months. In this Q&A, she describes how her practice group became "instantly busier" when the pandemic hit, what trends are here to stay and the kinds of deals she expects to see more of.
CDT Roundup: 14 Deals, 8 Firms, 86 Lawyers, $4.2B
With commodities pricing still on the volatile side, PE and VC deals are getting a lot of attention. But plodding along with them is real asset investing, as a new report by PitchBook reveals. And inside that space, infrastructure deals are taking off, and maybe not for the reasons you may think. That, and a look at last week's transactions, in the CDT Roundup.
