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Texas-based businesses rediscovered their M&A mojo during the fourth quarter of 2013, ending an otherwise slightly above average year of mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and initial public offerings with a flurry of deals. The final quarter of 2013 witnessed the third most M&A activity in a three-month span among Texas companies since the start of the recession in 2008, according to mergermarket. The Texas Lawbook has the list of top 15 law firms and financial advisors for 2013.

Texas-based businesses rediscovered their M&A mojo during the fourth quarter of 2013, ending an otherwise slightly above average year of mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and initial public offerings with a flurry of deals. The final quarter of 2013 witnessed the third most M&A activity in a three-month span among Texas companies since the start of the recession in 2008, according to mergermarket. The Texas Lawbook has the list of top 15 law firms and financial advisors for 2013.

Kraton Performance Polymers has entered a definitive agreement to combine with Taiwan-based LCY Chemical Corp.’s styrenic block polymer (SBC) operations, which creates a $2 billion revenue company.

Fortune 100 company Hess Corporation is selling 74,000 acres of its dry gas acreage in the Utica Shale to an undisclosed third party for $924 million.

Inspired by his own recent experience, Cuban is blogging about transcripts to “help people who have to decide how to engage the SEC in civil litigation.”

The Fifth Circuit’s chief judge has lived an extraordinary life and experienced discrimination that would make most people bitter and angry for life. Yet his colleagues on the federal appeals court and lawyers who know him best say he is one of the most kind-hearted, gentle and forgiving men they have ever met.

This article takes an in-depth look at the life of Carl Stewart, widely regarded as one of the most powerful federal judges in the nation.

Chief Justice Nathan Hecht has served more than 9,157 days on the Texas Supreme Court, making him the longest serving justice in history.

Texoma Transportation & Crude Marketing, LLC announced Friday that it has acquired CP Energy.