The Texas Lawbook Corporate Deal Tracker results for 2017 are in, and the top spot is held by a woman. In a corner of the profession long dominated by white guys from Houston, this is a big deal. Claire Poole has details about the winner. One more thing: she recently moved.
Mergermarket: Kirkland & Ellis Continues Its M&A Winning Streak in Texas
For the ninth consecutive quarter, Texas businesses turned more to national law firms instead of locally based legal operations to lead their major mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. Find out who’s leading the pack in Texas and the latest trends in the market. Mark Curriden has the details in The Texas Lawbook.
Corp. Deal Tracker Weekly Round-Up: 10 Firms and 44 TX Lawyers Advise on 9 Deals Worth $1.8B
Deal activity involving Texas lawyers continued to slide this past week, with only nine transactions worth $1.8 billion announced versus 11 deals worth $2.5 billion the previous week.
Law Firm Competition Intense for M&A Deals in Texas
(April 16) – The Texas Lawbook’s 2017 Corporate Deal Tracker results for M&A dealmaking are final and there are some major surprises. V&E still reigns No. 1, but a handful of national law firms that have moved into Texas are threatening to take its crown. The Texas Lawbook has all the numbers on M&A by Texas law firms.
Private Equity Reaching Deep Into Texas
The number of private equity deals was down last year from 2016, but deal values were up by 42 percent. This is what happens when a surfeit of capital starts chasing deals. Using data provided exclusively to The Texas Lawbook by Mergermarket, Claire Poole explains how $1 trillion in capital has affected Texas dealmaking – and why private equity is going to make transactional markets even more competitive.
Corp. Deal Tracker Weekly Round-Up: Eight Firms and 32 TX Lawyers Advise on 11 Deals Worth $2.5B
Stock and trade jitters may have been behind it, but last week’s transactional activity was…limp. Eleven deals, eight firms and 32 lawyers firmed up $2.5 billion worth of business. Along with the names and numbers, Claire Poole shares her insights on the deals in ,em>The Texas Lawbook.
Corp. Deal Tracker Weekly Round-Up: 11 Firms and 121 TX Lawyers Advise on 15 Deals worth $13.4 billion
Clearly, spring recess is over. Texas dealmakers were back to work last week, loading 15 deals worth $13.4 billion into their holiday baskets. The Big Deal of the week was the Concho Resources $9.5 billion purchase of RSP Permian. But there were others of interest. Claire Poole has the numbers and names behind the deals in The Texas Lawbook.
Corp. Deal Tracker Weekly Round-Up: 10 Firms and 92 TX Lawyers Advise on 9 Deals Worth $4B
Claire Poole left for vacation after writing most of last week’s roundup, and it appears Texas’s deal attorneys followed her. Texas lawyers advised on nine deals worth $4 billion, which was a 44 percent drop in dealflow from the previous week. Some firms still formed some biggies, though. Details here.
Concho & RSP Permian Have Gibson Dunn and V&E Lead $9.5B Shale Oil Deal
In the biggest M&A deal in the history of the Permian Basin, Midland-based Concho Resources is buying rival oil producer RSP Permian for $9.5 billion in an all stock transaction.
Corporate Deal Tracker 2017: A Year of Market Contrasts
Dealmaking in 2017 was confounding: deals were up, but values were down. The deal count hit 735, but total reported value dropped below $400 billion. There are lots of reasons, of course. But maybe the best explanation is the market itself. Claire Poole sums up the year based on the 2017 annual Corporate Deal Tracker tallies exclusively in The Texas Lawbook.
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