If a Texas lawyer works on an M&A transaction, The Texas Lawbook’s exclusive Corporate Deal Tracker database documents it. Today, The Lawbook has published our master list of all non-confidential transactions from 2019. The Corporate Deal Tracker lists the lawyers and law firms who represented the buyers and sellers in all 303 transactions.
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Corporate Deal Tracker Chart: 2019 M&A
If a Texas lawyer worked on a corporate transaction – even if the deal involves non-Texas clients – The Texas Lawbook documents it as part of its Corporate Deal Tracker. Today, the CDT publishes its master list of non-confidential mergers and acquisitions for 2019. The M&A non-confidential database features 303 transactions and the lawyers who worked on them.
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