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Deals in the Oil Patch Still Reign Supreme for Texas Lawyers

If the past 13 months have demonstrated anything, mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures in the oil patch are keeping corporate lawyers in Texas incredibly busy.

With two major M&A deals this week — Chord’s $4.2 billion acquisition of Enerplus and CenterPoint’s $1.2 billion shedding of natural gas assets to Bernhard Capital — Texas lawyers have officially worked on 198 oil and gas transactions with a combined deal value of $326 billion since Jan. 1, 2023, according to The Texas Lawbook’s exclusive Corporate Deal Tracker database.

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