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CDT Roundup: 13 Deals, 15 Firms, 171 Lawyers, $9.7B

Buried deep within the Corporate Deal Tracker this week is a transaction of interest. It does not involve oil, gas or renewables. It involves a tortilla chip – “the best chips on the market,” in the view of one of our fellow Texas Lawbook colleagues.

Xochitl, a chip and salsa maker based in Irving, Texas, and its founder and president, Carlos Salinas, inked a partnership with Forward Consumer Partners. It will give the Greenwich, Conn.-based private equity firm half of the company while Salinas will keep the other half.

Claire Poole

Claire Poole is a senior writer at The Texas Lawbook, where she covers corporate transactions.

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