Biography
Byron F. Egan is engaged in a corporate, partnership, securities, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and financing practice. Mr. Egan has extensive experience in business entity formation and governance matters, M&A, and financing transactions in a wide variety of industries including energy, financial, and technology. In addition to handling transactions, he advises boards of directors and their audit, compensation, and special committees with respect to fiduciary duty, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, special investigation, and other issues.
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Organization Membership
Mr. Egan is Senior Vice Chair and Chair of Executive Council of the M&A Committee of the American Bar Association and served as Co-Chair of its Asset Acquisition Agreement Task Force, which wrote Model Asset Purchase Agreement with Commentary (2001). He is Chair of the Texas Business Law Foundation; is a former Chair of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of Texas and former Chair of that section's Corporation Law Committee; and on behalf of these groups, has been instrumental in the drafting and enactment of many Texas business entity and other statutes. He is also a member of the American Law Institute.
Community Involvement
Mr. Egan is a member of the Executive Committee of the Chancellor's Council of the University of Texas System, President of the Friends of the University Park Public Library, and President of the Clan Egan Association USA/Canada. In 2012, the Order of Clans of Ireland was bestowed upon Mr. Egan.
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Peer Recognition
For over ten years, Mr. Egan has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America under Corporate, M&A, or Securities Law, and in 2011, he was named the "Dallas Best Lawyers Corporate Compliance Law Lawyer of the Year." He won the Burton Award for Legal Achievement in 2005, 2006, 2008, and 2009. He has been recognized as one of the top corporate and M&A lawyers in Texas by a number of publications, including Corporate Counsel Magazine, Texas Lawyer, The M&A Journal (which profiled him in 2005), and Who's Who Legal, which most recently included him as one of the International Who's Who of Merger & Acquisition Lawyers (2010 through 2012) and the 2009 and 2011 International Who's Who of Corporate Governance Lawyers. Mr. Egan was also named a "Super Lawyer" (2003-2012) by Thomson Reuters and a "Best Lawyer in Dallas" by D Magazine (2011-2013). In 2009, Mr. Egan's paper entitled "Director Duties: Process and Proof" was awarded the Franklin Jones Outstanding CLE Article Award and an earlier version of the article received the "Award for the Most Requested Article in the Last Five Years" by the State Bar Corporate Counsel Section.
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