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The Texas Lawbook

Free Speech, Due Process and Trial by Jury

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CDT Roundup: 13 Deals, 13 Firms, 125 Lawyers, $11.8B

July 23, 2019 Claire Poole

The M&A market for energy companies was less than stellar in the first half of the year and so was capital markets activity.

According to a report out last week from Drillinginfo, the industry raised $16.9 billion via public equity and debt offerings in the second quarter, down 23% from the first quarter and 36% over the same period a year ago.

“These numbers understate how weak capital markets were for parts of the industry,” Drillinginfo analyst Andrew Dittmar said as part of the report. 

“In a particularly poor showing,” he said, the upstream and oilfield service sectors combined to raise only $300 million from fresh equity and $2.5 billion from bond issuances.

The firm noted that the industry did manage to support two initial public offerings that raised $1.025 billion in the second quarter, almost double the $505 million raised in the first. 

However, a once-probable IPO issue in the midstream’s dynamic water management sector withdrew its registration statement in the quarter, opting instead to fund privately with banks and an overseas sovereign fund, Drillinginfo said.

It was a pretty good week for all dealmaking involving lawyers in Texas. There were 13 transactions amounting to $11.8 billion, versus 10 deals valued at $775 million the previous week and 14 deals amounting to $5.37 billion at the same time last year. The performance was mostly due to some signs of life in the M&A and capital markets.

Weekly Corporate Deal Tracker Roundup Stats

A compilation of weekly stats from The Lawbook's CDT Weekly Roundup
(Deal Values in Millions)

Week Ending
Deal CountAmountFirmsLawyersM&A CountM&A Value $MCapM Count
CapM Value $M
03-May-202511$4,249139011$2,226.52$2,022.5
26-Apr-202512$8,78791689$6,0113$2,776
19-Apr-202511$8,09771389$7,9852$112
12-Apr-202513$2,392815210$2,0653$327
05-Apr-202519$27,7621518816$25,4733$2,289
29-Mar-202521$8,1881025816$4,1255$4,064
22-Mar-202519$6,4851423115$4,1284$2,857
15-Mar-202513$13,7371315110$9,9324$3,805
8-Mar-20257$2,2345665$2242$2,100
1-Mar-202511$3,05087510$2,5501$500
24-Feb-2512$16,39771496$6,6356$9,862
17-Feb-2517$12,1361313410$9,4112$2,725
10-Feb-2514$7,15491799$4,9505$2,204
3-Feb-2516 $10,068720011$7,5535$2,515
25-Jan-2514$10,261101259$2,2075$8,054
18-Jan-2519$7,3821531612$2,3007$5,082
11-Jan-2521$33,5601618716$32,5215$1,039
4-Jan-259$6,8279809$6,82700
21-Dec-2411$2,79811928$2,2293$570
14-Dec-2415$5,3231218612$3,8123$1,511
07-Dec-2416$4,7661023111$2,32152,445
30-Nov-2410$10,29191034$8,2906$2.001
23-Nov-2415$4,5531515311$3,3794$1,174
16-Nov-2417$11,4881124513$10,1864$1,303
09-Nov-2414$2,1101213912$1,4102$700
02-Nov-2412 $52,788 1110711$52,7381$50
26-Oct-248$3,1608657$3,0651$75
19-Oct-2412$5,3041113611$4,5541$750
12-Oct-2417$8,4381215015$8,1162$322
05-Oct-2422$23,1811218915$19,9807$3,201
28-Sep-2411$2,35671447$534$2,303
21-Sep-2412$9,568101695$4,1017$5,467
14-Sep-2424$10,9881223516$7,1758$3,813
7-Sep-2412$20,4201616811$20,3071$112.9
31-Aug-2413$20,631913412$14,7751$5,856
24-Aug-2419$8,4522132516$7,1023$1,350
17-Aug-2425$49,1961630411$39,38614$9,810
10-Aug-2420$12,2641531216$9,7944$2,470
03-Aug-2426$16,4981633418$8,1378$8,361
27-Jul-2419$16,4422127115$13,8384$2,604
20-Jul-2415$16,0161418410$14,2325$1,784
13-Jul-2420$17,220 1426518$7,146 2$10,074
6-Jul-2411$3,941 11958$2,650 3$1,291
29-Jun-2414$6,296 152248$6,296 6$1,927
22-Jun-2412$5,679 81375$210 7$5,469
15-Jun-2413$9,895 1621410$5,280 3$4,615
8-Jun-2419$23,859 1323912$19,436 7$4,423
1-Jun-2412$34,510 111479$26,110 3$8,400
25-May-2413$9,684 1517110$4,434 3$5,250
18-May-2411$5,490 111738$3,129 3$2,361
11-May-2422$14,855 1422716$11,105 6$3,750
4-May-2413$3,139 98710$1,297 3$1,842
27-Apr-2410$6,684 62810$6,684 00
20-Apr-2419$15,989 111479$5,208 10$10,781
13-Apr-2413$8,952 97610$1,652 3$7,300
6-Apr-2423$26,616 1422214$13,501 8$13,116
30-Mar-2412$9,286 81368$4,299 4$4,987
23-Mar-2418$5,451 1726616$4,759 2$692
16-Mar-2421$11,437 1318614$9,316 6$2,070
9-Mar-2423$4,695 2121819$2,723 4$1,972
2-Mar-2420$9,108 1937214$4,558 6$4,550
24-Feb-2419$16,382 1224815$9,507 4$6,875
17-Feb-2416$29,932 1515712$29,216 4$716
10-Feb-2425$10,750 1719619$5,372 6$5,379
3-Feb-2412$8,416 181259$3,416 3$5,000
27-Jan-249$8,165 9878$7,815 1$800
20-Jan-2414$4,084 1210912$3,219 2$865
13-Jan-2417$33,588 1225612$26,765 5$6,823
6-Jan-248$7,915 8846$7,265 2$650
30-Dec-2317$14,599 129915$2,714 2$11,885
23-Dec-2323$4,182 1321916$1,813 7$2,370
16-Dec-2313$16,436 132807$15,150 5$1,286
9-Dec-2326$14,633.90 1724416$8,095 10$6,538.90
2-Dec-2313$6,720 95712$6,630 1$90
25-Nov-239$4,835 91316$1,785 3$3,050
18-Nov-2322$6,568.70 1718414$4,709.20 8$1,859.50
11-Nov-2315$9,825 1317912$6,581 3$3,244
4-Nov-2315$20,582.50 1419312$19,417.50 3$1,165
28-Oct-2318$68,419.10 1815215$66,646 3$1,773.10
21-Oct-2316$6,755.90 1616515$6,755.90 1$3
14-Oct-2314$67,851.20 131259$61,998.50 5$5,852.70
7-Oct-2317$6,595.50 1322816$5,995.50 1$600
30-Sep-2317$1,896.45 1318914$806.45 3$1,090
23-Sep-2323$6,432.70 1723016$1,402.80 7$5,029.90
16-Sep-2325$23,226.70 2335316$17,239 9$5,987.70
9-Sep-2312$6,369 81027$4,311 5$2,058
2-Sep-2314$2,522 69213$1,322 1$1,200
26-Aug-2317$12,160.25 1320215$6,573.25 2$5,587.00
19-Aug-2319$11,505 1321315$11,255 4$250
12-Aug-2319$9,698.80 131847$3,270 12$6,428.80
5-Aug-2313$5,201 1211812$5,051 1$150
29-Jul-2315$21,031.60 1319611$18,292.00 4$2,739.60
22-Jul-2318$3,992 1213013$2,808 5$1,184
15-Jul-2313$8,254.95 138113$8,254.95 00
8-Jul-2316$5,441.45 1217211$2,443 5$2,998.45
1-Jul-2316$6,872 1010512$5,474 4$1,398
24-Jun-2313$10,914 1620110$7,874 3$3,040
17-Jun-2317$5,880.70 1515115$4,705.70 2$1,175
10-Jun-2319$8,516.10 1311116$6,252.40 3$2,263.70
June 3 202312$6,104.42 121388$4,256.92 4$1,847.50
27-May-2317$12,200 106711$6,165 6$6,035
20-May-2311$22,458.10 81034$19,455 7$3,003
13-May-2312$7,034 101018$5,460 4$1,574
6-May-2320$3,297.60 1819617$2,985.60 3$312
29-Apr-2323$3,691.20 1813517$1,969.70 6$1,721.50
22-Apr-2316$5,570 1410414$4,750 2$1,000
15-Apr-2312$23,818.10 95910$21,618.10 2$2,200
8-Apr-2316$7,949 91739$5,472 7$3,477
1-Apr-2321$18,676.70 1217511$10,926.70 10$7,750
25-Mar-2315$8,779.50 101415$2,362 10$6,416.50
18-Mar-237$14,048.80 6695$13,345 2$703.80
11-Mar-2321$11,576 1616516$8,131 5$3,445
4-Mar-2320$9,668 1122816$8,209 4$1,459
25-Feb-2313$5,335 1313012$4,235 1$1,200
18-Feb-2314$5,743.70 131588$898.70 6$4,845
11-Feb-2316$12,088 1213712$9,965 4$2,123
4-Feb-2317$8,066 1514013$5,614 4$2,452
28-Jan-237$2,180 7755$1,692.75 2$488
21-Jan-2317$5,768 1617412$1,918 5$3,850
14-Jan-2311$2, 800101028$421 3$2,400
7-Jan-2318$8,296 1116714$6,461 3$1,835
31-Dec-2214$2,732 119912$2,092 2$640
17-Dec14$7,919 1311512$7,419 1$500
10-Dec-2214$10,093 128811$7,093 3$3,000
3-Dec-2226$12,800.90 1117220$4,141 6$8,659.90
26-Nov-228$2,266.70 853$76 5$2,190.70
19-Nov-2221$2,886 1521219$2,550 2$336
12-Nov-2213$15,093.70 9819$14,200 4$893.70
5-Nov-222519,337.201650922$8,267.20 3$11,070
29-Oct-2215$7,805.30 911614$7,180.30 1$625
22-Oct-2220$8,193.50 1325313$5,442 7$2,751.50
15-Oct-229$3,046.10 91397$2,588.30 2$457.80
8-Oct-2219$2,011.80 1211416$833.80 3$1,178
1-Oct-2223$5,532.90 1615618$4,952.30 5$580.60
24-Sep-2218$5,194 1421615$4,050 3$1,144
17-Sep-2221$8,352.30 1232015$4,759.60 6$3,592.70
10-Sep-2215$19,853.50 1012613$19,403.60 2$450
3-Sep-229$2,312 9629$2,312 00
27-Aug-2216$30,891.70 1013515$30,666.40 1227.7
20-Aug-2212$1,977 815299253$1,052
13-Aug-2218$8,004.70 1124211$2,844.70 7$5,160
6-Aug-2224$7,948.90 1224017$3,577 7$4,371.90
30-Jul-228$6,941 9787$6,839 1$102
23-Jul-2211$801 119210$801 10
16-Jul-2214$3,650 1012214$3,650 00
9-Jul-2210$3,557.70 7689$3,557.70 10
2-Jul-2218$8,609.40 1315215$2,754.40 3$5,855
25-Jun-2215$6,142 131469$2,017 6$4,125
18-Jun-2217$11,890.10 1422815$11,410 2479.7
11-Jun-2217$7,600 1212310$2,300 7$5,300
4-Jun-2212$2,937 101279$692 3$2,245
28-May-229$3,197.60 11869$3,197.60 00
21-May-2214$7,284.50 1218511$6,609 3$675.50
14-May-2211$306.60 98010$306.60 1$225
7-May-2216$10,451.75 1210812$1,827 4$8,624.75
30-Apr-2216$2,296.50 1615712$895.50 4$1,401
23-Apr-2210$2,241 11588$1,641 2$600
16-Apr-2211$6,643 71568$2,359 3$4,284
9-Apr-2217$4,429 1418411$1,690 6$2,739
2-Apr-2213$1,755 88410$1,145 3$610
26-Mar-2211$3,205 8656$200 5$3,005
19-Mar-2213$2,239.17 910613$2,239.17 00
12-Mar-2218$12,016 1123915$11,965 2$51.35
5-Mar-2217$6,786 1313713$5,161 4$1,625
26-Feb-2212$5,095 81499$4,437.50 3$658
19-Feb-2217$22,229 1717414$21,354 3$875
12-Feb-2212$2,344.70 10738$641.70 4$1,703
5-Feb-2211$2,503 89911$2,503 00
29-Jan-2211$3,872 1210112$3,872 00
22-Jan-2213$5,143.50 109912$4,842.50 1$301
15-Jan-2212$7,605 91559$6,480 3$1,025
8-Jan-2213$8,256.20 1110213$8,256.20 00
1-Jan-229$1,273.80 6509$1,273.80 00
25-Dec-2121$4,734.75 1117616$3,410 5$1,324.75
18-Dec-2126$7,325.20 1519318$3,640.20 8$3,685.20
11-Dec-2116$5,017 1010913$1,417 3$3,600
4-Dec-2114$2,310 8868$2,310 6$1,882.05
27-Nov-219$3.460.1101016$1,758 3$1,702.60
20-Nov-2120$22,792 1515712$18,864.50 8$3,928
13-Nov-2121$26,729 1217813$11,822 8$14,907
6-Nov-2112$8,303 1315710$6,682 3$1,621
30-Oct-2121$10,368 1521815$9,24.46$1,103.00
23-Oct-2121$18.783.11522211$12,314 10$6,468.60
16-Oct-2115$3,868 1111815$2,293 2$1,575
9-Oct-2120$8,610 1617516$7,795 4$815
2-Oct-2114$6,250 1113710$5,200 4$1,050
25-Sep-2111$11,460 9937$10,200 4$1,250
18-Sep-2111$16,603 8998$15,084 3$1,519
11-Sep-2117$10,653 1110313$8,503 4$2,150
4-Sep-2113$7,222 108911$6,715 2$507
28-Aug-2112$763 96311$663 1$100
21-Aug-2112$29,659 77911$29,579 1$80
14-Aug-2122$17,845 1119912$12,805 10$5,04
7-Aug-2117$13,670 1213915$11,766 2$1,904
31-Jul-2121$8,160 1113410$3,574 10$4,586
July 24,202121$6,367 1113915$3,712 6$2,655
17-Jul-2114$4,009 1112412$2,015 2$1,994
10-Jul-2116$3,997 1314311$1,597 4$2,4
3-Jul-2124$7,492 139416$3,769 8$3,722
26-Jun-2110$4,995 7858$3,847 2$1,148
19-Jun-2128$16,830 82289$1,861 19$14,968
12-Jun-2126$27,238 1520919$25,602 7$1,636
5-Jun-2115$15,539 1310013$14,709 2$600
29-May-2135$20,279 1114528$18,647$1,639
22-May-2124$53,208 1417417$51,047 7$2,161
15-May-2118$10,620 1322011$5,870 7$4,809
8-May-2117$10,400 1115615$8,386 2$2,500
1-May-2121$7,200 1611512$3,808 9$3,392
24-Apr-218$20,200 9318$20,200 00
17-Apr-2114$6,270 810211$40,180 3$2,260
10-Apr-2115$8,940 1312914$7,990 1$950
3-Apr-2118$19,513 1015112$16,923 6$2,590
27-Mar-2127$13,942 1524414$4,300 13$9,633.50
20-Mar-2111$2,046 41023$270 8$1,776
13-Mar-2115$3,270 91096$538 9$2,732
6-Mar-2124$13,617 1019613$10,395 11$3,222
27-Feb-2119$8,105 1213915$4,970 4$3,135
20-Feb-219$8,820 91538$8,520 1$300
13-Feb-2112$4,852.60 78172,7665$2,086.60
6-Feb-2118$9,752 1315314$5,222 4$4,530
30-Jan-2118$9,449 918215$8,753.80 3$695.30
23-Jan-2114$8,150 81186$4,000 8$4,150
16-Jan-2117$6,783 1313811$2,400 6$4,382.90
9-Jan-2122$6,829 1413518$3,139.30 4$3,690
2-Jan-217$1,466 7607$1,466 00
26-Dec-2018$15,900 1216316$5,300 1$600
19-Dec-2018$9,769 1411014$8,426 4$1,343
12-Dec-2010$7,200 91009$3,325 1$3,830
5-Dec-2015$4,261 91229$2,780 6$1,481
28-Nov-2019$7,758 1011013$4,003 6$3,755
14-Nov-2014$864.10 1415712$289.10 2$575
7-Nov-2013$6,332 91299$2,483.50 4$3,849
31-Oct-2010$3,995.80 81036$3,231.10 4$754.70
24-Oct-206$18,100 6585$17,709 1$350
17-Oct-208$351.90 5558$351.90 00
10-Oct-207$5,229 3504$735 3$4,494
3-Oct-2014$21,428 91739$17,535 5$3,893
26-Sep-2010$12,770 8935$10,300 5$2,470
19-Sep-2014$8,365 91016$1,020 8$7,345
12-Sep-206$4,406 8593$1,270 3$3,136
5-Sep-2011$5,191 81179$4,061 2$1,130
29-Aug-2011$2,531 9945$1,130 6$1,401
22-Aug-2018$6,574 121407$1,930 11$4,644
15-Aug-2013$4,991 10977$1,216 6$3,775
8-Aug-2012$32,092 111129$30,457 3$1,635
1-Aug-207$5,287 8765$3,687 2$1,600
25-Jul-209$18,751 6677$18,403 2$348
18-Jul-206$1,982.50 5504$1,407.50 2$575
11-Jul-2011$565.10 127510$65.10 1$500
4-Jul-2010$8,889 8989$8,788 1$100.30
27-Jun-208$6,874 10505$4,972.50 3$2,081.50
20-Jun-2012$4,444 91157$2,829 5$1,615
13-Jun-206$3,582 4372$350 4$3,232
6-Jun-2011$3,213.70 8657$470 4$2,743.70
30-May-208$7,335 7486$4,639 2$2,697
23-May-204$432.40 4343$432.40 10
16-May-206$310 6345$310 10
9-May-2018$5,630 1612414$3,180 4$2,450
2-May-201510,40010908$1,900 7$,8,500
25-Apr-208$3,400 9365$1,000 3$2,450
18-Apr-2019$9,500 14928$185.70 11$9,360
11-Apr-2012$6,000 9405$190 7$5,800
4-Apr-2014$8,200 116810$2,200 4$6,000
28-Mar-2016$6,500 139610$3,700 6$2,800
21-Mar-2011$11,910 7337$2,250 4$9,960
14-Mar-207809.86346684.81125
7-Mar-2016$2,500 157013$669 3$1,400
29-Feb-2013$15,260 1312811$11,760 2$3,500
22-Feb-2012$3,700 109210$2,560 2$1,130
15-Feb-2016$1,250 108412$35 4$1,222
8-Feb-2018$6,080 1412314$2,595 4$3,485
1-Feb-2021$20,900 1210114$17,860 7$3,060
25-Jan-2013$7,430 136212$6,430 1$1,000
18-Jan-2023$9,580 1512019$6,580 4$3,000
11-Jan-2021$14,200 1819916$1,020 5$13,200
4-Jan-2022$6,400 1111916$3,204 6$3,245
28-Dec-1922$7,150 1917518$6,800 4$327.40
14-Dec-1924$36,300 2316719$9,500 5$26,800
7-Dec-1911$10,400 11557$1,082 4$9,370
November 30. 201914$2,450 1212612$1,760 2$692.50
23-Nov-1916$1,995 104111$615 5$1,380
16-Nov-1915$3,820 1313511$2,500 4$1,271
9-Nov-1925$12,900 1718223$12,200 2$575
2-Nov-1910$2,470 126192,4503$22
26-Oct-1912$5,560 147011$3,860 1$1,700
19-Oct-198$6,600 81388$6,600 00
12-Oct-1919$4,300 145516$3,800 3$500
5-Oct-1918$14,500 1916615$11,100 3$3,400
28-Sep-1919$8,100 1813218$7,560 1$550
21-Sep-1914$6,300 166611$2,160 3$4,170
14-Sep-1915$23,800 125611$21,250 4$2,570
7-Sep-1917$3,500 159814$1,900 3$1,600
31-Aug-195$8,700 6505$8,700 00
24-Aug-1916$10,000 148215$4,250 1$5,750
16-Aug-1910$1,680 5527$650 3$950
9-Aug-1917$17,700 156814$3,900 3$13,800
2-Aug-1913$5,760 1210813$5,760 NANA
27-Jul-1911$7,300 13768$6,570 3$730
20-Jul-1913$11,800 1312511$5,300 2$6,500
13-Jul-1910$775 7468$542.50 2$233
6-Jul-197$2,500 9857$2,500 00
29-Jun-1923$8,290 1515417$2,300 6$5,970
22-Jun-1917$10,700 1013914$7,700 3$3,000
15-Jun-1911$13,500 1416011$13,500 NANA
8-Jun-1913$2,870 175511$1,570 2$1,300
1-Jun-1910$4,460 11608$4,140 2$315
25-May-1917$4,360 147914$3,700 3$612
18-May-1922$9,000 1715016$3,400 6$5,600
11-May-1918$19,800 1717715$18,300 3$1,500
4-May-1910$7,075 6328$6,900 2$175
27-Apr-1915$3,200 1411714$3,160 1$40
20-Apr-1913$13,500 10909$12,200 4$1,300
13-Apr-1916$38,900 149114$37,800 2$1,100
6-Apr-1912$6,870 119410$6,730 2$50
30-Mar-1915$6,470 128410$7,91.55$5,677
23-Mar-1918$6,450 149114$5,042 4$1,408
16-Mar-1914$10,180 1211511$8,800 3$1,300
9-Mar-199$1,800 6498$1,300 1$500
2-Mar-1920$3,033 1610714$1,817 6$1,262
23-Feb-1912$2,040 8699$614.60 3$1,430
16-Feb-1916$9,970 187716$9,970 00
9-Feb-1914$6,400 1011014$6,400 00
2-Feb-1918$6,740 159916$5,720 2$950
26-Jan-1913$2,770 116711$918.95 2$1,850
19-Jan-1915$3,819 167612$2,594 3$1,225
12-Jan-1918$7,283 149215$1,683 3$5,600
5-Jan-1910$529 125010$529 00
22-Dec-1817$2,570 138714$941 3$1,629
15-Dec-1810$2,860 8268$264 2$2,600
8-Dec-1815$1,819 166512$552 3$1,267
1-Dec-1812$7,500 10909$1,200 3$6,200
28-Nov-1815$4,500 1110714$4,000 1$500
19-Nov-1818$6,137 139813$2,142 5$3,995
14-Nov-1818$9,200 1315215$8,500 3$694
6-Nov-1816$17,300 1618314$16,361 2$950
29-Oct-1814$14,400 1812717$13,800 1$600
24-Oct-1813$6,140 1312611$5,122 2$1,018
17-Oct-1818$18,390 1512514$12,292 4$6,098
10-Oct-1829$3,149 1810420$1,647 9$819
2-Oct-1818$9,300 116714$7,300 4$2,000
25-Sep-1813$7,000 117510$6,000 3$995
18-Sep-189$3,570 7449$3,570 00
11-Sep-1813$5,900 1013213$5,900 00
7-Sep-1814$5,000 158611$4,000 3$1,000
29-Aug-1815$20,700 147913$4,700 2$16,000
20-Aug-1810$12,400 11538$11,380 3$1,057
14-Aug-1812$19,900 121329$18,889 3$1,011
7-Aug-1816$68,600 1110613$67,259 3$1,340
31-Jul-1815$15,100 159511$13,060 4$2,060
23-Jul-1813$2,130 156010$1,804 3$1,100
17-Jul-1814$5,370 17989$4,310 5$1,100
9-Jul-1816$11,200 157410$11,080 6$862
3-Jul-1813$7,000 78112$6,330 1$750
25-Jun-1815$8,800 13979$4,970 6$3,930
18-Jun-1813$14,200 14807$221 6$14,290
11-Jun-1812$6,300 8968$5,910 4$803
6-Jun-1813$14,500 10888$14,154 5$579
31-May-1811$4,890 10638$3,240 3$1,790
22-May-1815$20,400 11639$19,808 6$885
15-May-1815$4,700 1510610$3,900 5$643
9-May-1811$1,400 13889$1,300 2$560
1-May-188$14,250 7887$13,400 1$450
24-Apr-1812$5,300 66111$4,470 1$800
17-Apr-189$1,800 10447$2,330 2$1,434
11-Apr-1811$2,500 8326$1,690 5$809
3-Apr-1815$13,400 111219$12,020 6$1,090
28-Mar-1810$4,000 10927$3,870 3$215
19-Mar-1817$5,800 135110$590 7$5,165
12-Mar-1815$3,130 114311$2,360 4$788
6-Mar-1819$5,400 1311610$1,530 9$4,860
27-Feb-1820$6,600 136914$5,530 6$1,030
19-Feb-1815$5,500 1411110$3,990 6$1,980
12-Feb-1823$10,900 1715712$7,110 11$3,840
5-Feb-1816$8,600 131007$1,330 9$7,800
30-Jan-1811$12,600 11685$7,300 6$4,982
24-Jan-1819$9,400 151295$2,010 14$7,337
18-Jan-1810$6,280 8492$2,100 8$4,188
9-Jan-1812$16,500 12929$15,890 3$475
3-Jan-1810$2,500 9478$2,350 2$150
27-Dec-1715$9,000 151139$7,568 6$1,784
18-Dec-1715$13,800 161649$13,010 7$1,118
11-Dec-1714$9,700 1012612$2,940 4$8,500
4-Dec-176$1,800 6315$1,510 1$300
28-Nov-177$3,850 8764$3,260 3$285
16-Nov-1710$2,700 10486$1,840 4$856
8-Nov-1715$2,380 179110$1,860 5$516
1-Nov-1712$4,700 17949$3,400 4$1,300
23-Oct-1715$10,500 106710$9,780 4$1,530
18-Oct-176$2,000 373$225 3$1,820
10-Oct-1712$6,570 1009$3,880 3$3,360
2-Oct-178$3,100 11193$1,630 5$1,750
25-Sep-178$4,880 8795$2,660 5$2,070
18-Sep-179$4,770 3$300 6$4,470
12-Sep-1711$4,430 8$2,030 3$2,400
1-Sep-174$1,310 3$317 1$1,000
23-Aug-1711$13,640 98$11,840 3$1,800

Thirteen law firms and 125 Texas lawyers worked on the transactions. Eleven deals were in the M&A/private equity/venture capital arena valued at $5.3 billion while two were capital markets/financing related worth $6.5 billion. Kirkland & Ellis partner Adam Larson in Houston led two of the transactions.

M&A/PRIVATE EQUITY/VENTURE CAPITAL

Kirkland, Baker Botts advise on Callon’s $3.2B Carrizo purchase

As The Texas Lawbook reported last week, Callon Petroleum Co. said July 15 it had agreed to buy Carrizo Oil & Gas Inc. for $3.2 billion in stock and assumed debt.

It was the latest deal in a wave of consolidation among oil and gas producers.

Each Carrizo shareholder will receive 2.05 shares of Callon stock for each share of Carrizo they own, a 25% premium over Carrizo’s shares on the day before the deal was announced.

Kirkland & Ellis advised Callon with a team led by corporate partners Sean Wheeler, Doug Bacon, Anthony Speier, Alex Rose and Lanchi Huynh. The associates included Jennifer Rainey Singh, Lindsey Jaquillard, Camille Walker, Zach Savrick, Meghan Dupre, Cameron McCollum, Zack Montgomery and Eilidh Reid.

The firm’s specialists included tax partner David Wheat and associate William Dong; debt finance partners Mary Kogut Brawley and Will Bos and associates Brandon Elliot, Jordan Roberts and Mahalia Burford; executive compensation partner Scott Price and associates Laura Gallo and Annemarie Mierzejewski; and capital markets associates Terry Bokosha and Trevor Crowley.

Others were antitrust partners Ian John, Carla Hineand Christina Shin and associate Evan Turnage; government and internal investigations partners Asheesh Goel and Nick Niles; environmental transactions partner Paul Tanaka and associate James Dolphin; employee benefits partner Alexandra Mihalas and associate Adria Crowe; and labor and employment partner Michael Schulman.

Leading Callon’s in-house team was Michol Ecklund, senior VP, general counsel and corporate secretary, and Brian Bowen, assistant general counsel. The two previously worked together at Marathon Oil.

Baker Botts assisted Carrizo, including partners Gene Oshman and Jim Marshall and associates Lakshmi Ramanathan, Sunil Jamal, Steven Lackey and Jack Chadderdon, all of Houston.

The firm’s specialists on the deal included Houston partner Rob Fowler and associate Gabriela Alvarez on employee benefits; partners Derek Green and Jon Lobb and associate Dominick Constantino on tax; and partner Andrew Thomison on finance. Washington, D.C., partner Thomas Fina weighed in on antitrust matters.

Carrizo’s in-house counsel on the deal included general counsel and VP of business development Gerry Morton and associate general counsel Mike Kennington. 

RBC Capital Markets’ Hank Hilliard and Lazard’s Kevin Bonebrake in Houston provided financial advice to Carrizo while JP Morgan’s Jonathan Cox in Houston assisted Callon. Hilliard joined RBC just last year from Goldman Sachs.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher advised Lazard, including partners Hillary Holmes and Tull Florey, associate Justine Robinson and partner James Chenoweth on tax, all of Houston.

Carrizo shareholders will own 46% of the combined companies and three members of Carrizo’s board will join Callon’s board.

The parties expect the merger to create a top mid-cap oil and gas company with large development operations across oil-weighted assets in the Permian Basin and Eagle Ford Shale. 

Shareholders from both companies and regulators have to clear the deal, which the parties expect to close in the fourth quarter.

The markets haven’t been too keen on the deal, with Callon’s stock falling so much there’s no premium left for Carrizo shareholders, analysts say. But many still think the transaction will go through given that it’s all stock. 

“It can always fall through if shares continue to slide and it doesn’t get shareholder vote, but CPE [Callon] doesn’t have to raise any capital and it has support from banks with new credit facility,” Williams Capital analyst Gabriele Sorbara told The Lawbook this week.

Locke Lord aids WildFire on $1B equity line from Warburg, Kayne

Locke Lord said it advised the management team of Houston-based WildFire Energy I on securing an equity line of more than $1 billion from investors including Warburg Pincus and Kayne Private Equity Income Funds.

Partner Mitch Tiras and senior counsel Freddy Feldman led the deal team, which included partners Sara Longtain and Jeff Wallace and associate Rachel Fitzgerald.

Kirkland & Ellis partners Adam Larson and Kim Hicks represented Warburg. Willkie represented Kayne, including partner Michael De Voe Piazza and Steven Torello with assistance from Will Thanheiser and Lynn Abell.

WildFire was founded by former senior management of Eagle Ford-focused WildHorse Resource Development Co., which was acquired by Chesapeake Energy earlier this year for $4 billion, and Memorial Resource Development, which was purchased by Range Resources in 2016 for $3.3 billion. The company plans to focus on the acquisition and development of oil and gas assets with significant production across the lower 48 states. 

WildFire is led by CEO Anthony Bahr and president and COO Steve Habachy, who said they’re focusing on acquiring assets generating material cash flow and in which the latest technology can unlock further value potential and production optimization can improve cash flows.

David Krieger led the deal from Warburg Pincus, which has more than $65 billion in private equity assets under management, while Danny Weingeist did so from Kayne Anderson, which manages $30 billion in assets.

V&E, Porter Hedges aid on $600M Range Resources divestiture

Vinson & Elkins and Porter Hedges advised on Range Resources Corp.’s sale of a 2% royalty interest in 350,000 net surface acres in southwest Appalachia for $600 million.

Vinson & Elkins advised Fort Worth-based Range with a team led by partner Bryan Loocke with senior associate Tan Lu and associate Josh Rocha. Partner Tim Johnston weighed in on finance matters and partner Todd Way did so on tax.

Porter Hedges advised one of the buyers, Toronto-based Franco-Nevada Corp., which agreed to pay $300 million for the acquisition of Marcellus Shale royalty interests. Partners Jeremy Mouton and James Thompson led the team, which included partner Scott Muehlberger. Other contributions came from partners Ben Rajabi, Mac Marshall, Josh Wolfshohl, Jason Lloyd, Eric English, Geoff Schultz and Harris Stamey and associate Mark Jones.

J.P. Morgan Securities was Range’s financial advisor.

The properties produced about 1.9 billion cubic feet equivalent net per day in the first quarter and produced annualized cash flow of $48 million based on pricing for the first half of the year.

Range said it also completed the $34 million sale of certain non-producing acreage in Pennsylvania for $34 million. Those properties included 20,000 acres in northwest Armstrong County.

Range said sale processes to monetize more non-core assets remain underway. It’s using proceeds to pay down its revolver, which with these transactions will cut total debt by 17% and reduce annual interest expenses by $30 million per year.

Range CEO and president Jeff Venture said in a statement that the company has executed a $1 billion reduction in absolute debt over the past year as it strengthens the business through organic free cash flow generation and asset sales.

“Over the past year, Range will have generated asset sale proceeds that equate to approximately 75% of our current market cap through the divestment of assets with a net impact to annual cash flow of less than 4%,” he said. “Harvesting value from our asset base through these divestitures coupled with capital efficient operations positions Range for future success through commodity price cycles.” 

Kashy Harrison, an analyst at Piper Jaffray’s Simmons Energy, said in a note that it was a step in the right direction for Range as it should help reduce leverage by around half a turn. 

“Admittedly, the company is selling an 8% yielding asset to eliminate a 4.7% liability, thereby driving a reduction in free cash flow,” he said. “However, with leverage previously positioned to approach 4 turns by YE’19, debt reduction represents one of the more important catalysts for the stock (that or a rapid improvement in NGL prices).”

Harrison said Range previously identified its assets in northeast Pennsylvania as a divestiture candidate.

Winston counsels Rent-A-Center on $47.5M Merchants purchase

Plano-based Rent-A-Center Inc. announced July 15 that it had agreed to buy C/C Financial Corp., which does business as Merchants Preferred, for $47.5 million.

Winston counseled Rent-A-Center on the deal with a team led by Dallas partner Todd J. Thorson. Other members were Thomas W. Hughes, Miles McDougal, Virginia Welch Peters and Patrick Luthen.

Sullivan & Worcester represented Merchants Preferred (Jeffrey B. Morlend & Karen Linsley in Boston).

Mann, Armistead & Epperson in Virginia was Rent-A-Center’s financial advisor while Houlihan Lokey’s Brent Ferrin in New York assisted Merchants Preferred.

Dawn Wolverton is Rent-a-Center’s interim general counsel, having been appointed after Christopher Korst resigned in June.

Founded in 2012, Merchants Preferred is an Atlanta-based provider of virtual rent-to-own services for non-prime customers.

The deal includes $28 million in cash and a minimum of 701,918 shares of Rent-A-Center common stock. The total consideration and the number of shares issued will depend on Rent-A-Center’s stock price at closing, but  the number of shares are expected to remain the same. 

Rent-A-Center expects to close the transaction in the third quarter. The company doesn’t expect the acquisition’s impact to 2019 earnings to be material.

Rent-A-Center CEO Mitch Fadel said in a statement that the Merchants Preferred technology platform and its 2,500 locations will help the company accelerate its virtual expansion plans by at least 18 months. 

Merchants Preferred’s management team is staying on, including CEO and president Joe Corona.

Kirkland advises BCE-Mach II on property purchases in Oklahoma, Texas

Kirkland & Ellis said July 16 it represented BCE-Mach II on its agreement to purchase producing properties in Beckham, Custer, Dewey, Roger Mills and Washita counties in Oklahoma and Hemphill and Roberts counties in Texas.

Neither the name of the seller nor the purchase price was disclosed. The parties expect to close the transaction in September.

Corporate partners David Castro Jr. and Chris Heasley led the deal team with associates Adam Whitehouse and Fraser Wayne. 

Mach Resources’ senior counsel is Michael Reel in Oklahoma City.

BCE-Mach II also announced it had signed an agreement to acquire producing properties across 32 counties in Oklahoma and seven counties in Texas. Closing on that transaction also is expected in September.

Mach Resources is led by former Chesapeake Energy executive Tom Ward of Oklahoma City and Bayou City Energy Management is headed by William McMullen, previously of private equity firms White Deer Energy and Denham Capital in Houston. They formed BCE-Mach II to pursue low-risk, high cash flowing oil and gas properties with drilling inventory in the Western Anadarko Basin, including western Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle.

BCE-Mach II is the second collaboration between Mach and BCE. BCE-Mach continues to own, operate and acquire properties in the Mississippi Lime region.

Last year BCE-Mach agreed to buy producing oil and gas properties in Oklahoma and Kansas from Repsol E&P USA Inc., a unit of Spain’s Repsol, for an undisclosed sum, with Castro and Heasley as well as partner Anthony Speier working on the deal.

Mach’s Ward said in a statement that the deals will result in the partnerships operating nearly 1,800 wells and generating more than $150 million of annual cash flow with the strategy of investing 60% of cash flow to maintain a steady EBITDA and production profile.

McMullen said including the latest deals, the two BCE-Mach partnerships will have closed on five distinct transactions spanning the Mississippi Lime, Stack, Merger, Scoop and Western Anadarko basins covering 365,000 net acres, which are producing around 30,000 net barrels of oil equivalent per day, 49% of which is liquids.

Morgan Lewis aids Harden on joining Dynamo ownership group

Morgan Lewis said it advised Houston Rockets star James Harden and his company, 13 Endeavors, on their purchase of a stake in the Houston Dynamo and Houston Dash soccer clubs for undisclosed terms.

Houston partner Sameer Mohan led the deal team, which included support from lawyers in the firm’s San Francisco, Orange County and Princeton offices.  

Akerman lawyers in Los Angeles represented the majority owners of the Dynamo and Dash. Major League Soccer, or MLS, was represented by the New York office of Proskauer Rose. 

Business manager Lorenzo McCloud also advised Harden on the transaction along with True Capital management. The Dynamo and Dash were represented by Chris Hopkins, club executive VP and COO of the Brener Group.

Forbes valued the Dynamo at $220 million last fall, making it the 16th most valuable team in the league.

Harden was the 2018 NBA Most Valuable Player and has led the U.S. to gold medals at the 2012 Olympic Games and the 2014 FIBA World Cup. 

The 29-year-old Los Angeles native joined the Houston Rockets before the 2012-13 season and has been named an NBA All-Star in each season while leading the team to the playoffs every year.

His other investments include sports drink BodyArmor, Art of Sport (A.O.S.), a body- and skin-care brand tailored specifically for athletes, and sock company Stance.

Harden said in a statement that he considers Houston his home now and he saw the deal as a way to invest in his city and expand his business interests at the same time. 

“Soccer in general, and especially MLS, have exploded in this country throughout my lifetime,” he said. “I’ve been a fan of the game for several years and I know that Houston has a massive soccer fanbase, so it was an easy decision for me when this opportunity arose.”

Harden joins an ownership group led by Gabriel Brener, the Mexico City-born CEO of Brener International Group who purchased a majority stake in the team in 2015.

Other club owners include retired boxing champion Oscar De La Hoya; Ben Guill, managing partner of $2.2 billion private equity firm White Deer Energy; and Jake Silverstein, a private investor in Portland, Oregon, who leads the Silverstein family’s private investment platform Stormlight Expeditions (his father is cable entrepreneur Barry Silverstein).

Since its inception in 2006, the Dynamo have captured three U.S. titles, including winning the MLS Cup in the club’s first two years and the 2018 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup. 

The Houston Dash are in their sixth season under the guidance of first-year head coach James Clarkson. Led by stars such as forwards Kealia Ohai and England international Rachel Daly, the Dash are aiming for their first playoff berth this fall, the release said.

Kirkland, Sidley advise on Desert Royalty-Kimmeridge transaction

Kirkland & Ellis and Sidley Austin said they provided outside legal advice on Desert Royalty Co.’s combination of its Delaware Basin oil and gas royalty assets with those of Kimmeridge Energy Management Co. Terms weren’t disclosed.

The assets will be owned by Desert Peak Minerals, creating the largest pure-play mineral and royalty company in the Delaware Basin by net royalty acres, which amount to 70,000, the release said.

Kirkland counseled Desert Royalty, including corporate partners Adam Larson and Chris Heasley and associates Ahmed Sidik, Adam Whitehouse, Isaac Bate and Daniel Cadis. Others were capital markets partner Michael Rigdon and associate Justin Bosworth and tax partner David Wheat and associate Joe Tobias.

Sidley Austin represented Kimmeridge. That team was co-led by energy partner Jim Rice and associate Katy Lukaszewski, and included project finance partner Irving Rotter, energy partner George Vlahakos, and energy associates John Brannan and Kayleigh McNelis.

Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. was Desert Royalty’s financial advisor.

The parties expect the properties to produce 8,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day with near-term growth opportunities, the firms said. The deal also positions Desert Peak as a logical consolidator of additional high-quality Delaware Basin mineral and royalty assets and increases exposure to leading operators. 

The company will be headquartered in Denver and be led by CEO Chris Conoscenti and the Kimmeridge management team. 

Kyle Stallings, founder and CEO of Desert Royalty, called the deal “the most interesting development I have observed in 33 years in the mineral business.”

Desert Royalty is in the process of deploying its sixth mineral fund and intends to raise a seventh from its existing private investor base next year.

Ben Dell is managing partner at Kimmeridge, which was formed in 2016 and has consummated more than 130 acquisitions.

Arcline buys Baker Hughes’ reciprocating compression unit

Arcline Investment Management said July 18 it agreed to acquire the reciprocating compression unit of Baker Hughes, a GE company, for an undisclosed sum.

Baker Hughes’ in-house counsel on the deal was John Keffer, associate general counsel of M&A in London. Will Marsh is chief legal officer of the company in Houston.

Baker Hughes’ outside counsel was DLA Piper (partner Sam Snider in Atlanta). Arcline tapped Kirkland & Ellis out of San Francisco (partner Navneeta Rekhi).

Robert W. Baird & Co. provided Arcline with financial advice.

The unit makes and services compression and engine systems used in various applications, including natural gas transmission across pipelines. Its customers include Cooper-Bessemer, Ajax, Superior, Gemini, Enterprise, TSI, CSI, TXC and Joy. 

The unit has manufacturing facilities in Houston and Salina, Kansas, and five repair and overhaul shops around the U.S.

Arcline is a growth-oriented private equity firm with $1.5 billion in capital under management. It invests in niche, market-leading companies that it hopes to expand.

V&E aids Vida Capital on sale to RedBird, Reverence

RedBird Capital Partners and Reverence Capital Partners announced July 15 that they agreed to buy Austin Ventures-backed Vida Capital, an Austin asset management firm focused on non-correlated investment strategies. Terms weren’t disclosed.

Vinson & Elkins advised Vida, including partner Milam Newby with senior associate Michael Gibson and associates Kate Rainey and Ann Stehling.

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson was RedBird’s and Reverence’s legal advisor.

Vida tapped Moelis & Co. as its financial advisor.

Vida CEO and president Jeff Serra, along with members of the management team, are investing alongside RedBird and Reverence.

The proposed transaction has to clear regulators but its expected to close by the fourth quarter.

Vida said its asset management infrastructure and expertise underwriting longevity risk position it to benefit from sustainable life settlements market growth and further institutionalization of the sector along wth strong demand from high net worth and institutional investors for niche uncorrelated investment products. 

RedBird’s and Reverence’s investment is expected to provide Vida with greater financial and operational resources to continue building its proprietary analytical capabilities and expanding its product set. 

Led by CEO and co-founder Jeff Serra, Vida has $4.2 billion in assets under management, making it the largest fully-integrated independent life settlements manager in North America.

Milton Berlinski is managing partner of Reverence Capital Partners, which has invested $2.4 billion in equity. Gerry Cardinale holds the same title at RedBird, which has invested $2.5 billion in equity. Cardinale worked at Goldman Sachs with Berlinski and Reverence co-founder Peter Aberg.

Sidley represents GE in renewable energy JV with BlackRock

Sidley Austin said it represented General Electric on a joint venture with BlackRock to create renewable energy venture Distributed Solar Development.

The team was led out of New York (Christopher Barbuto) but included Houston associate Jeff Kinney and Dallas associate Whitney Price.

GE’s in-house counsel was Kelly Warrick, chief investment counsel at unit GE Ventures in Connecticut.

Milbank counseled BlackRock.

The company, which will be 80% owned by a fund managed by BlackRock Real Assets and 20% by GE Renewable Energy, will focus on solar and storage solutions for the commercial industrial and public sectors. Its CEO is Erik Schiemann and it has 60 employees.

The new business has been incubated in GE since 2012, operating under the name GE Solar. Its first installation was in 2015 and it’s since developed 125 projects.

David Giordano, BlackRock’s global head of renewable power, said the investment will deepen its clients’ access to the growth potential in the U.S. solar industry. 

BlackRock Real Assets claims to operate one of the largest renewable power equity investment platforms in the world with $5 billion invested in more than 250 wind and solar projects that have more than 5.2 gigawatts of generation capacity.

Shearman, V&E aid on Spruce’s $3M in funding led by Fitz Gate

Spruce, a Houston provider of hotel-inspired services to the multifamily industry, said July 17 it raised $3 million in funding from investors led by Fitz Gate Ventures.

Others were Mercury Fund, Capital Factory and the Houston Angel Network.

Shearman & Sterling partner Alan Bickerstaff in Austin represented Spruce while Vinson & Elkins counsel Wesley Watts assisted Fitz Gate.

Led by founder and CEO Ben Johnson, Spruce said the capital will help it expand its market presence outside of Texas, beginning with Denver, scale its sales and marketing capabilities and continue development of its software platform.

Spruce offers hotel-inspired services to apartment residents, including housekeeping, pet care and laundry and dry cleaning.

Spruce said its typical customers spend $1,000 on average every year and have a 20% to 30% greater likelihood to renew their lease. Spruce offers an average of $13,000 in annual move-in credits per community.

The company serves more than 200 select communities owned and/or managed by 13 of the 15 largest Texas apartment companies. It’s headquartered at Station Houston, a technology park for start-ups.

Fitz Gate Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund that invests most of its capital in startups from the Princeton “ecosystem.”

Mercury Fund is an early-stage venture capital firm with more than $300 million under management while Capital Factory has been most active investor in Texas since 2013, according to PitchBook.

CAPITAL MARKETS/FINANCING

Latham represents Total on $4B public debt offering

Latham & Watkins said it’s representing Total on its registered public debt offering of $4 billion in fixed rate notes issued by its unit Total Capital International. 

Houston partner Ryan Maierson led the team, which included lawyers in Paris along with Houston associates Ryan Lynch and Bryan Ryan on U.S. securities laws matters. Houston partners Tim Fenn and Bryant Lee assisted on U.S. tax matters along with associate Jared Grimley.

The offering consisted of four tranches: $750 million of two-year notes, $1 billion of five-year notes, $1.25 billion of 10-year notes and $1 billion of 30-year notes.

The offering was made pursuant to a shelf registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in April of last year.

Mayer Brown aids Bank of Montreal on Comstock’s $2.5B credit facility

Mayer Brown said its Houston office represented Bank of Montreal as administrative agent in connection with Comstock Resources Inc.’s new five-year $2.5 billion credit facility to help pay for its $2.2 billion acquisition of Covey Park Energy. 

The team was led by Tristan Propst and Meaghan Connors and included Bill Heller, Lander Brandt and Yvette Sokei, all of Houston.

Comstock elected to set the revolver’s committed borrowing base at $1.5 billion. 

Comstock said it closed its Covey Park acquisition on July 16. It also funded the deal through a $475 million investment by Jerry Jones, owner of the Dallas Cowboys, who will get 50 million newly issued Comstock shares valued at $6 per share and $175 million of newly issued shares of Comstock convertible preferred stock.

UPDATE/OTHER:

Court Square Capital Management and HGGC are seeking a buyer for Dynata, a Plano-based survey research company that could fetch over $3 billion, including debt, according to Reuters.

Dynata’s private equity owners are working with Evercore on an auction for the company, the news agency said.

The target specializes in providing so-called first-party data, which is sourced first hand by the company and highly prized by businesses looking to better understand customers. It serves almost 6,000 clients, including market research agencies, advertising agencies and investment firms.

The Shelton, Connecticut-based company was formed in a 2017 merger of two companies owned by Court Square and HGGC, with the combined business rebranded as Dynata earlier this year.

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Dallas-based Energy Transfer has hired an unnamed financial advisor to help it weigh the sale of its 33% stake in the Rover system that carries Appalachian natural gas to customers across the Midwest, according to Bloomberg citing unnamed sources. The stake could fetch as much as $2.5 billion, the report said. Blackstone owns a 32% interest in the pipeline and NGP-backed Traverse Midstream owns the remaining 35%.

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Earlier this month, data.world in Austin announced that it had acquired Capsenta to enable businesses to securely access, view and work with on-premises databases in the cloud. The Lawbook is now told that John Gilluly and Anna Denton at DLA Piper and Scott Kokka at Kokka & Backus provided outside legal advice to data.world on the deal. Robert Housley at Kastner Gravelle counseled Capsenta. Data.world’s general counsel is Ariane Chan, who previously was a corporate partner at DLA Piper. Capsenta is an Austin-based startup spun out from The University of Texas at Austin.

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Another oil and gas company may be headed to bankruptcy court. Sanchez Energy Corp. said it’s working on a restructuring plan to reduce debt and strengthen its financial flexibility, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. It said it’s delayed making a $35.2 million interest payment on its 6.125 percent senior notes due 2023, which have a 30-day grace period that expires Aug. 14. The Houston oil and gas explorer has been exploring strategic options since this past fall with Moelis & Co. advising it.

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