The number of private equity deals was down last year from 2016, but deal values were up by 42 percent. This is what happens when a surfeit of capital starts chasing deals. Using data provided exclusively to The Texas Lawbook by Mergermarket, Claire Poole explains how $1 trillion in capital has affected Texas dealmaking – and why private equity is going to make transactional markets even more competitive.
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One of the new executive committee members has also been named deputy managing partner of the newly-combined firm.
Foley Gardere Names Managing Partners of Texas Offices
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DLA Piper’s Big Texas Play
The firm has been on a lateral hiring spree during the past year that has increased its lawyer headcount in the state by 50 percent.
Strasburger Finally Announces Merger: Third Involving a Major Texas Firm this Month
The firm will operate in Texas as Clark Strasburger, but as Clark Hill everywhere else.
John McDowell Jumps to Dallas Trial Firm
Former Andrews Kurth Kenyon litigation partner John McDowell has joined forces with longtime friends and fellow Hughes & Luce ex-pats Paul Koning and Bobby Rubarts at the Dallas trial law firm Koning Rubarts.
SEC Charges So. TX Businessmen with Ponzi Fraud Targeting Elderly
Two South Texas businesses and their executives operated a pair of Ponzi schemes to raise $3.6 million from dozens of elderly investors as old as 101 and used a good portion of the money for personal reasons, including country club memberships, spa treatments, maid service and tithing to a church, according to federal charges brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Updated – From $50 in the Bank to Tuesday’s $502M Verdict Against Apple: Meet Caldwell Cassady & Curry
Meet Caldwell Cassady & Curry. They started with a $50 bank account and a dedicated client. Now they wear jeans to work, name their conference rooms after hip-hop artists and score verdicts in the hundreds of millions. Natalie Posgate explains who they are, where they come from and why Apple wishes they’d go away.
Former Directors of Litigation at TCEQ Join Holland & Knight in Austin
John Riley and Paul Sarahan were previously at Kelley Drye.