M&A and capital markets activity involving Texas lawyers were sparse in number and modest in size last week. In all, eight transactions were announced in M&A, private equity and securities offerings during the final week of September. The Corporate Deal Tracker shows that 19 lawyers from 11 different firms worked on the transactions that had a cumulative value of $3.1 billion. The Texas Lawbook has the details.
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