Corp. Deal Tracker Weekly Round-Up: Texas Lawyers Part of Pre-Holiday Rush with 16 Firms and 164 Attorneys Working on 15 Transactions Worth $13.8B

Rushing to complete deals before the holidays, Texas lawyers punched the accelerator this week and the results were impressive. Sixteen transactions worth $13.8 billion involving 16 different law firms and 164 Texas lawyers are the most since the CDT Round-Up began running in October.

This high point may have been skewed by Marathon Petroleum’s $10.1 billion share exchange with affiliate MPLX, but there was still a lot of action: a $946 million acquisition by Oasis Petroleum; a joint venture led by Noble Midstream to purchase Saddle Butte Rockies Midstream; a $525 million oilfield services acquisition; three private equity firm investments in the energy industry plus an Austin technology deal.