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How blockchain could upend M&A and Investment Banking ther deals December 6, 2018 By  James Marshall , Deals Partner, Re-posted by Scott Shields Katy, Scott Shields Houston Imagine partnering with a foreign company run by executives you’ve never actually met, or imagine crowd financing a new film even if it required a big budget? Many investors would shy away from such deals, feeling that the risks were too big or too ambiguous to take on. But given blockchain’s evolution in recent years, we’d be remiss to write off these prospects just yet. Government and business leaders who aren’t already evaluating blockchain through a new lens need to be. The technology has been widely discussed, and much of the focus around its potential uses in M&A deals has thus far been around making the due diligence process more efficient. However, blockchain’s deeper potential use cases span beyond what dealmakers envision today. As a tamper-proof shared ledge...

Reposted by www.morganshields.com, Scott Shields Katy Houston Mexico’s Energy Regulatory Commission publishes regional natural gas prices for the first time As part of the ongoing liberalization of the Mexican natural gas market, on March 22, Mexico’s Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) published for the first time  monthly natural gas prices for six trading regions  in the country. The regional prices supplement the  national monthly natural gas price index , called IPGN, which was launched in August 2017. CRE collects data for the pricing indexes based on monthly post-transactional reports that all natural gas marketers operating in Mexico are required to file. Monthly regional price indexes include the average prices paid for natural gas plus transportation costs for all transactions that took place in each region during the previous month. The selection of regions was based on regional natural gas supply patterns, existing and in-development pipeline trans...

TPG Pace to Buy EnerVest Shale Assets for $2.7 Billion By  Matthew Monks   and  Alex Nussbaum re-post by www.morganshields.com & www.. m-sconsulting.com  March 20, 2018, 6:37 AM CDT Updated on March 20, 2018, 8:05 AM CDT TPG Pace Energy, a blank-check company, targets Eagle Ford Chazen to be CEO of newly formed company to be called Magnolia Steve Chazen, who made Occidental Petroleum Corp. a heavyweight of the shale boom, is looking to replicate that success in south Texas with a $2.66 billion deal. TPG Pace Energy Holdings Corp. , a blank-check company  formed  by Chazen and private equity firm  TPG , agreed to acquire about 360,000 net acres in the Eagle Ford shale from oil and gas investment firm  EnerVest Ltd. , according to a  statement Tuesday. Steve Chazen Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg TPG Pace, which raised $650 million in a  public offering  last May, plans to change its na...

Scott Shields Family Update - Katy Texas  Spring Break Scott Shields of Katy Texas -Update:          The Scott & Katye Shields Family is now enjoying our spring break in Katy Texas, a  suburb of Houston Texas. It is going to be busy spring break with a long list of projects this Spring Break here in Katy, Texas.  We have completed task #1...updating Jon's bedroom from a child's room to a teen's room.  We moved the bunk beds out of the room and and have put in a new bed and bookcase.  We also updated the paint with a light gray color.   Everyone thinks this room looks amazing!  Next up on the Shields agenda...traveling from Katy to Houston, Texas to visit the the Holocaust museum for a school project, Wiess Energy Hall, and the Museum of Natural Science.  Like everyone in Katy, Texas; we also have a number of yard work projects that we are hoping to complete this week as well....