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The state’s largest cities are locked in their classic M&A arms race and the lawyers in the two cities are playing a different game in the first half of 2026 when it comes to billion-dollar deals.
The Texas Lawbook's exclusive Corporate Deal Tracker breaks down the lawyers who lead the most megadeals for the first six months of the year.
The Texas Lawbook is kicking off 1H 2026 rankings with a look at billion-plus M&A through our Corporate Deal Tracker rankings, highlighting the firms that have dominated the first six months of the year. And shocker, the ampersands continue to impress.
Against the backdrop of SpaceX’s long-awaited public debut last month and a potential reopening of the IPO window in capital markets, Texas is testing whether its economic strength can be matched by financial market depth.
The Texas Lawbook caught up with Carlos Pena of Texas Capital to discuss how extended private lifecycles, the evolving IPO windows and Texas’ legal and governance frameworks are reshaping capital formation.
We may be only a halfway through 2026, but the megadeal scoreboard is already starting to look like a final season tally.
The Texas Lawbook's exclusive Corporate Deal Tracker breaks down the first half activity for 2026 for deals valued at $1 billion or more.
The deal for the Houston-based valve distributor provides both tech and customer-base expansion for Ferguson's push into data center infrastructure air and water services. Orrick, Kirkland and Foley are advising.
Data centers and the power to run them remained a primary deal-driver in a 14-deal, $4.6 billion week, but the CDT deal targets themselves were global and rather eclectic.
That and more in this edition of CDT Roundup.
A low‑key SEC data dump on July 1 quietly implies a CapM “revival” based on first‑quarter numbers. A closer look shows the comeback is largely powered by SPACs, not new operating companies. So, how much of this recovery is substance, and how much is spin?
Lawyers in the Lone Star State celebrated the holiday week by working on deals involving the heavy stuff: midstream assets, bitcoin mining, Gulf Coast ammonia plants, offshore helicopters, offshore platforms, West Texas power plants and a Fort Worth rail transloading company.
Shell Offshore, a subsidiary of Houston-based oil giant Shell Oil, announced that it is selling its interest in two major offshore Gulf platforms to Talos Energy and Ridgewood Energy for $1.7 billion.
At the request of multiple firms and dealmakers over 10 months, The Texas Lawbook is now introducing funding league tables alongside our existing Corporate Deal Tracker rankings. Readers can find the firm and individual dealmaker funding rankings in this story, along with updated 2025 CDT rankings for M&A and CapM that hadn't yet been shared beyond The Lawbook's the Sunday CDT newsletter.
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