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Texas businesses smashed all records when it came to mega-mergers, acquisitions and divestitures during the fourth quarter of 2016. The average value of M&A deals in Texas topped $1 billion during the final three months of last year. “It was the year of the big deal and the year of the big finish,” says Chad Watt of Mergermarket. “We blew the doors off in the second half.” The Texas Lawbook provides full data and charts, including a list of the 25 biggest Texas M&A deals of 2016.

Texas businesses smashed all records when it came to mega-mergers, acquisitions and divestitures during the fourth quarter of 2016. The average value of M&A deals in Texas topped $1 billion during the final three months of last year. “It was the year of the big deal and the year of the big finish,” says Chad Watt of Mergermarket. “We blew the doors off in the second half.” The Texas Lawbook provides full data and charts, including a list of the 25 biggest Texas M&A deals of 2016.

Texas businesses smashed all records when it came to mega-mergers, acquisitions and divestitures during the fourth quarter of 2016. The average value of M&A deals in Texas topped $1 billion during the final three months of last year. “It was the year of the big deal and the year of the big finish,” says Chad Watt of Mergermarket. “We blew the doors off in the second half.” The Texas Lawbook provides full data and charts, including a list of the 25 biggest Texas M&A deals of 2016.

Texas businesses smashed all records when it came to mega-mergers, acquisitions and divestitures during the fourth quarter of 2016. The average value of M&A deals in Texas topped $1 billion during the final three months of last year. “It was the year of the big deal and the year of the big finish,” says Chad Watt of Mergermarket. “We blew the doors off in the second half.” The Texas Lawbook provides full data and charts, including a list of the 25 biggest Texas M&A deals of 2016.

Texas businesses smashed all records when it came to mega-mergers, acquisitions and divestitures during the fourth quarter of 2016. The average value of M&A deals in Texas topped $1 billion during the final three months of last year. “It was the year of the big deal and the year of the big finish,” says Chad Watt of Mergermarket. “We blew the doors off in the second half.” The Texas Lawbook provides full data and charts, including a list of the 25 biggest Texas M&A deals of 2016.

A Swiss arbitration ruled that Rudolf Suter owed $2 million to a Florida investor from a failed business deal. Suter ignored it. When the investor discovered he was living large in Texas, the investor sought and received a judgment from a Dallas federal court. Suter filed for bankruptcy. He ignored that until he was threatened with jail. And when a Dallas federal judge decided to hold a contempt hearing, Suter caught a British Airways jet for London.

Last month, Suter was arrested when he tried to return to the U.S. He was returned to Dallas, cuffed hand and foot, for a hearing last Friday and was presented with a whole new legal problem: federal charges for lying during his bankruptcy proceedings.

“He has been avoiding the U.S. legal system for over five years,” said one of the lawyers involved. “Although it took a while, it looks like the system has caught up with him.”

After a nine year fight in Texas courts to establish that its carbon dioxide pipeline is a common carrier, Denbury Green walked away from the Supreme Court of Texas Friday with a big win. Lawyers for energy interests praised the ruling as restoring stability to pipeline planning, while advocates for landowners said the decision gives pipelines a sort of get-out-of-jail-free card by letting them retroactively prove eminent domain authority. The Texas Lawbook has full details.