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Deal activity involving Texas lawyers continued to be weak this past week – and way weaker than this time last year, which doesn't portend a great second half of the year. Claire Poole has the numbers.
Almost 4,000 PE funds are now competing in a congested market for money-raising and PE-backed buyouts are down in number and value for the second quarter, according to Preqin. In her weekly roundup, Claire Poole has the major deals last week involving Texas lawyers and stats that describe an increasingly circumspect market for M&A.
It's S-L-O-W out there in the global M&A market. Deal value reached $842 billion in the second quarter. But that's down 27% from last year. Deal count is the lowest since 2008. Dealmakers have the jitters. And yet...The first half was the third strongest on record. And U.S. dealmaking hit its first $1 trillion half. Claire Poole deciphers these seeming contradictions in her weekly Roundup, and balances out the week that was.
IPOs are hot, especially among venture capital-backed firms. How hot? In the first two months of Q2 there have been 21 offerings that generated more value than 10 of the last 11 years. And with some big names reportedly in the wings, things could get hotter. Claire Poole takes the market's pulse in Texas, along with her weekly report on the week in deal-making in the Lone Star State.
Short-term bridge loans, in the form of the SCF (subscription credit facility), are becoming an increasingly useful tool for private capital funds that don't want to keep tapping their investors on capital calls for deals. Claire Poole has the SCF growth numbers, along with her weekly insights on deal-making by Texas lawyers.
Have we entered a time of the dying deal? Claire Poole examines this question in her weekly Corporate Deal Tracker roundup.
Does the pressure of being a publicly traded PE firm affect its performance when compared to its private PE counterparts? Not so much, according to a recent PitchBook analysis. Claire Poole has the comparison, along with her weekly roundup of Texas deals.
Private equity exits in oil and gas are notoriously difficult and these days few and far between. As a result, some PEs are finding creative ways to transition. The Lawbook's Claire Poole explains in her weekly roundup of Texas deal activity.
Mid-year predictions/reflections are already beginning to appear and Claire Poole has been absorbing them all. She shares the latest observations from GlobalData, Pitchbook and Intralinks with her weekly roundup of Texas dealmaking.
Last week, Chevron dropped out of a $33 billion deal to purchase Anadarko Petroleum Corp. when it declined to match or counter a $38 billion offer by Occidental Petroleum. In her weekly roundup of deal activity, Claire Poole looks at why that happened and what it means along with other deal news.
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