Five of the 10 largest corporate transactions announced during the first quarter of 2013 involved Texas-based companies. New statistics show that non-Texas-based firms, such as Jones Day, Weil, K&L Gates and Sidley Austin, have seen their corporate deal-making portfolios expand. In fact, the two chart leaders – Wachtell Lipton for deal value and Kirkland & Ellis for deal count – don’t even have offices in Texas, although Kirkland has eyed moving to Dallas or Houston for the past year.
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