V&E and Latham Take Lion’s Share of 2016 Offering Work

© 2017 The Texas Lawbook. By Natalie Posgate (May 11) – Though the type of securities offerings that companies issued differed from 2015 to 2016, the Texas law firms and lawyers behind the offerings stayed pretty close to the same, according to new data from The Texas Lawbook’s Corporate Deal Tracker. The Houston offices of two law firms, Vinson & Elkins and Latham & Watkins, dominated offering count last year, the data shows. Of the 303 capital markets deals reported to the Corporate Deal Tracker in 2016, V&E and Latham handled 197 – or 65 percent – of them. Moreover, 15 of the 20 largest offerings in 2016 involved V&E or Latham (or both). Thirteen out of the 19 law firms improved their offering count in 2016. Beyond V&E and Latham, other firms that significantly increased their offering count from the previous year included Norton Rose Fulbright (63 percent), Jones Day (700 percent) and Porter Hedges (100 percent). Aside from the significant change in offering work some law firms underwent, the rankings themselves stayed close to the same in 2016 from the prior year. V&E placed first in the league tables for a second year in a row. The 134…