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Deal flow involving Texas lawyers was slower than slow this past week. But better times may be ahead, with one firm predicting an increase in North American transactions in the second half of 2019, particularly in energy and power, materials and consumer/retail. Claire Poole reports.
Oil and gas types gathering at a conference last week in San Antonio didn’t get much cheer from investment bankers, who spoke of grumpy sentiment toward the sector. But there are some bright spots on the dealmaking horizon, as Claire Poole reports, along with her weekly tally of deals.
For the past seven months, Stream Energy GC Daniel Terrell was laser focused on his company’s $330 million sale to Houston-based utility NRG Energy. In an exclusive interview, Terrell said the deal “was incredibly complex and challenging." The Texas Lawbook has exclusive details.
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.
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.
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.
Andrew Van Noord is the first real estate capital markets attorney in the one-year-old Dallas office and is bringing along an associate.
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.
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, 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.
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
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.
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