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As previously reported, the usual law firms saw decent numbers for Q1 deal counts involving Texas firms, but the drop in values were steep. Not surprisingly, financial advisors were not spared. Although the top Q1 deal counts belonged to the usual suspects, the drop in values was startling, according to Mergermarket data for Texas provided exclusively to The Texas Lawbook.
Due diligence often requires significant exchanges of confidential information. One of the vexing problems with those exchanges is how they can be accomplished without waiving work product protections, attorney-client privileges and similar protections and privileges. Byron Egan and Bryan McCrory look at the potential pitfalls and offer some practical suggestions.
Does the pressure of being a publicly traded PE firm affect its performance when compared to its private PE counterparts? Not so much, according to a recent PitchBook analysis. Claire Poole has the comparison, along with her weekly roundup of Texas deals.
In a $4.3 billion deal with Infrastructure Investments Fund, publicly-traded utility El Paso Electric Co. announced Monday that it has agreed to be taken private. Claire Poole has deal specifics and the potential implications for the City of El Paso.
Private equity exits in oil and gas are notoriously difficult and these days few and far between. As a result, some PEs are finding creative ways to transition. The Lawbook's Claire Poole explains in her weekly roundup of Texas deal activity.
Kirkland & Ellis, Vinson & Elkins and Latham & Watkins topped the charts in M&A deal value for Texas businesses during the first quarter of 2019. They also topped the charts in deal count, new Mergermarket data shows.
NASCAR Holdings will assume control of four new speedways, including the iconic ovals at Daytona and Talladega, after International Speedway Corp. accepted a $2 billion purchase offer. Claire Poole has the names of the Texas-based Baker Botts crew that helped push the deal to the finish line.
Mid-year predictions/reflections are already beginning to appear and Claire Poole has been absorbing them all. She shares the latest observations from GlobalData, Pitchbook and Intralinks with her weekly roundup of Texas dealmaking.
New data from Mergermarket shows that Kirkland & Ellis, Vinson & Elkins and Latham & Watkins represented the most Texas businesses involved in mergers and acquisitions during the first quarter of 2019. Inside are the top 20 firms by deal count for January through March 2019.
Last week, Chevron dropped out of a $33 billion deal to purchase Anadarko Petroleum Corp. when it declined to match or counter a $38 billion offer by Occidental Petroleum. In her weekly roundup of deal activity, Claire Poole looks at why that happened and what it means along with other deal news.
After a 23-month stint at Kirkland & Ellis, Samuel Peca is back at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, where he spent more than five years as an associate before joining Kirkland in July 2017. Peca worked on some big deals for Kirkland, including TPG’s purchase of a majority stake in Tailwater Capital-backed Goodnight Midstream in March for $930 million.
Dallas investment banker Josh Bammel left Generational Equity in 2007 to form Kratos Capital. He hasn't looked back. Specializing in transactions between $20 million and $75 million, Bammel just closed his 121st deal. He shares his perspectives on the business with Claire Poole.
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