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Calgary-based NOVA Chemicals Corp. said Monday that it will purchase Tulsa-based Williams Partners’ 88.5 percent ownership interest in a Gulf Coast petrochemical facility for $2.1 billion.

A slew of Texas-based attorneys from four law firms worked on Blackstone Energy Partners’ $2 billion purchase of EagleClaw, the largest privately-held midstream operator in the Permian’s Delaware Basin in West Texas.

A slew of Texas-based attorneys from four law firms worked on Blackstone Energy Partners’ $2 billion purchase of EagleClaw, the largest privately-held midstream operator in the Permian’s Delaware Basin in West Texas.

In a unanimous verdict, five women and three men ordered Youtoo Media and its general partner, Christopher Wyatt, to pay more than $3 million to Prince Mansour Bin Abdullah Al-Saud of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for his lost investment. The court also tossed a $6 million claim the prince’s courtroom opponents brought against him.

The Texas Public Utility Commission voted Thursday to block Energy Future Holdings from selling its electric business Oncor to Florida-based NextEra. The regulator raised concerns that the $18.7 billion deal for the largest electricity transmitter in Texas was not in the public interest. For the full article in the DBJ, click here.

A group of AT&T lawyers spearheaded the telecom giant’s $1.6 billion acquisition of Straight Path Communications that was announced earlier this week.

A group of AT&T lawyers spearheaded the telecom giant’s $1.6 billion acquisition of Straight Path Communications that was announced earlier this week.

A group of Houston King & Spalding lawyers said Wednesday that they advised the Japanese Sojitz Corp. in its acquisition of a 33 percent equity stake in the Birdsboro Power Plant, a Philadelphia-area natural gas-fired combined-cycle power generating facility near the Marcellus Shale.

A group of Houston King & Spalding lawyers said Wednesday that they advised the Japanese Sojitz Corp. in its acquisition of a 33 percent equity stake in the Birdsboro Power Plant, a Philadelphia-area natural gas-fired combined-cycle power generating facility near the Marcellus Shale.

This latest installment in the 2016 Corporate Deal Tracker series breaks down the value range that most Texas-based lawyers’ M&A work fell under. It also reveals which law firms did the most small deals, mid-sized deals, and bonus: who did the most deals with confidential values.