Chris LaFollette: ‘Just a Lucky Girl From South Texas’
After practicing law for 40 years, corporate attorney Chris LaFollette reflects on her career, coming up in Houston and focusing on energy transactions from 1980 to 2020.
Energy for Change: Three Young Energy Lawyers Help Texas Transition
The Texas energy economy is in an undeniable era of transition — from oil and gas dominance to sustainability. The Lawbook's Nushin Huq talks to three young lawyers who have been making that transition along with their clients, and what they see coming to Texas' energy future.
Capital Markets Transactions
A periodically updated list of Capital Markets transactions reported to the Texas Lawbook through June 30, 2021. It reflects deals handled by the Texas offices of law firms or deals involving Texas companies.
CDT Roundup: 11 Deals, 8 Firms, 99 Lawyers, $16.6B
Hunton Andrews Kurth's Jordan Hirsch and Mike O'Leary look into their crystal balls at what's ahead for M&A through the end of the year and how we got here. And in this week's Roundup, more than 90 Texas-based lawyers took part in $16.6 billion worth of deals.
Shell to Exit Permian Basin; ConocoPhillips Set to Buy Assets
In a $9.5 billion all-cash deal, Houston's ConocoPhillips is snapping up Shell's remaining assets in west Texas. Baker Botts and Norton Rose Fulbright advised.
CDT Roundup: 17 Deals, 11 Firms, 103 Lawyers, $10.6B
Latham & Watkins' Justin Stolte caught up with The Texas Lawbook as the firm's Houston office works to service client demands spurred along by the energy transition and a meaningful uptick in commodity prices. And in last week's deal activity, more than 100 Texas-based lawyers participated in more than $10.6 billion worth of deals.
Simpson Thacher Lands Houston Corporate Partner from Latham
Simpson Thacher is adding a young partner who played a key role in EQT's $2.9 billion acquisition of assets from Alta Resources in May.
CDT: Texas Firm Rank All-M&A Parties
This ranks lead participation by law firms in which Texas offices were led the legal advisory teams for any parties of a merger, acquisition, divestiture or joint venture reported to or by The Texas Lawbook during the first six months of 2021 — whether or not values were disclosed.
