Chris LaFollette: ‘Just a Lucky Girl From South Texas’
After practicing law for 40 years, corporate attorney Chris LaFollette reflects on her career, coming up in Houston and focusing on energy transactions from 1980 to 2020.
Energy for Change: Three Young Energy Lawyers Help Texas Transition
The Texas energy economy is in an undeniable era of transition — from oil and gas dominance to sustainability. The Lawbook's Nushin Huq talks to three young lawyers who have been making that transition along with their clients, and what they see coming to Texas' energy future.
Shell to Exit Permian Basin; ConocoPhillips Set to Buy Assets
In a $9.5 billion all-cash deal, Houston's ConocoPhillips is snapping up Shell's remaining assets in west Texas. Baker Botts and Norton Rose Fulbright advised.
CDT Roundup: 17 Deals, 11 Firms, 103 Lawyers, $10.6B
Latham & Watkins' Justin Stolte caught up with The Texas Lawbook as the firm's Houston office works to service client demands spurred along by the energy transition and a meaningful uptick in commodity prices. And in last week's deal activity, more than 100 Texas-based lawyers participated in more than $10.6 billion worth of deals.
CDT: Texas Firm Rank All-M&A Parties
This ranks lead participation by law firms in which Texas offices were led the legal advisory teams for any parties of a merger, acquisition, divestiture or joint venture reported to or by The Texas Lawbook during the first six months of 2021 — whether or not values were disclosed.
CDT Roundup: 13 Deals, 89 Lawyers, 10 Firms, $7.22B
It's the threat to financing conditions that's keeping commercial bankers up at night as they contemplate inflation's relationship to M&A through the end of the year. Yet, like the nagging possibility of Covid-related shutdowns or uncertainty tied to changes in federal tax policies, it's a matter of sector for investors on both the buy- and sell-sides. In Texas dealmaking last week, strategic acquisitions had a moment as 89 lawyers played a part in 13 deals.
Top Texas Firms Join BigLaw’s Fight Against Lawsuits Alleging SPACs are Investment Companies
The incredible volume of SPAC investment and activity has encouraged plaintiffs' attorneys to seek creative arguments to challenge the SPAC structure. Three derivative lawsuits filed in August in the Southern District of New York sparked an official response from nearly all of the leading transactional firms in the U.S. This article describes the implications on the SPAC practice going forward.
DBJ: Dallas SPAC Gets Approval for Merger, Doesn’t Have Required Cash
The Dallas blank check company has until the end of the month to pull together the required capital.
CDT Roundup: 12 Deals, 63 Lawyers, 9 Firms, $763M
Non-traditional investors have been making waves in the valuation game in 2021 – and the deployment of Texas capital is no exception. And in dealmaking last week, growth equity and other capital infusions had a moment in the week's 12 reported transactions.
CDT Lead Texas M&A Law Firms for H1 2021
Corporate Deal Tracker: Law firms in which Texas lawyers were the lead legal advisors for the buyers, sellers or targets of a merger, acquisition, divestiture or joint venture during the first six months of 2021.