O’Melveny Partners Chrissy Metcalf and Jack Jacobsen Recognized as 2024 “Top Dealmakers in Texas” by The Texas Lawbook
February 27, 2025
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DALLAS—February 27, 2025—O’Melveny partners Chrissy Metcalf and Jack Jacobsen have been recognized as 2024 “Top Dealmakers in Texas” by The Texas Lawbook, which ranked Texas lawyers who “lead or co-lead deals for the buyer, seller, or target” in two separate categories—deal count and deal value.
Metcalf, who led seven Texas M&A transactions in 2024, was ranked in the top five of women lawyers by deal count. She serves as managing partner of O’Melveny’s Dallas office. Metcalf represents private equity sponsors in buyouts, new platform investments, add-on acquisitions, and growth financings, as well as in portfolio company corporate support and exit transactions. She also advises private and public company clients on strategic acquisitions, capital-raising transactions, and general corporate issues, including corporate governance counseling and SEC reporting matters.
Jacobsen, who led nine Texas M&A deals in 2024, represents clients in mergers and acquisitions, private equity and leveraged transactions, recapitalizations involving mezzanine debt and preferred equity, public securities offerings and oil and gas transactions. He counsels institutional investors, investment funds, private equity groups, and independent sponsors on various acquisitions, joint ventures, and financing transactions. Jacobsen also advises public companies on SEC reporting and compliance.
Subscribers to The Texas Lawbook can view the 2024 “Top Dealmakers in Texas” here.
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Contact:
Brandon Jacobsen
O’Melveny & Myers LLP
+1 213 430 8024
bjacobsen@omm.com
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