Jackson Walker L.L.P. :: Byron F. Egan
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Practice Areas
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Biography
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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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Memberships
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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 a member of the American Law Institute and is a former Chairman of the Texas Business Law Foundation, of which he is currently a director and executive committee member. He is also a former Chairman of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of Texas and former Chairman of that section's Corporation Law Committee. On behalf of these groups, Mr. Egan has been instrumental in the drafting and enactment of many Texas business entity and other statutes. He is also a Life Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation.
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Community
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Mr. Egan is a member of the Executive Committee of the Chancellor's Council of the University of Texas System, a member of the Board of Governors of the Dallas Symphony Association, Inc., a member of the University Park Public Library Advisory Board, and President of the Clan Egan Association USA/Canada.
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Awards
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For over ten years, Mr. Egan has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America under Corporate, M&A, or Securities Law. 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 2010 International Who's Who of Merger & Acquisition Lawyers and the 2009 International Who's Who of Corporate Governance Lawyers. Mr. Egan was also named a "Super Lawyer" (2003-2009) by Thomson Reuters. 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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Education
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B.A., The University of Texas at Austin
J.D., The University of Texas School of Law
After law school, Mr. Egan served as a law clerk for Judge Irving L. Goldberg on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
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Publications & Speaking Engagements
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Mr. Egan is a frequent author and lecturer regarding M&A, corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, securities laws, and financing techniques. Mr. Egan has written the following:
- Author, "Fiduciary Duties of Corporate Directors and Officers in Texas," 43 Texas Journal of Business Law 45 (Spring 2009)
- Author, "Major Themes of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act," 42 Texas Journal of Business Law 339 (Winter 2008)
- Author, "Responsibilities of Officers and Directors under Texas and Delaware Law," XXVI Corporate Counsel Review 1 (May 2007)
- Author, "Choice of Entity Decision Tree After Margin Tax and Texas Business Organizations Code," 42 Texas Journal of Business Law 171 (Spring 2007)
- Author, "Communicating with Auditors After the Sarbanes-Oxley Act," 41 Texas Journal of Business Law 131 (Fall 2005)
- Author, "The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Its Expanding Reach," 40 Texas Journal of Business Law 305 (Winter 2005)
- Author, "Choice of Entity Alternatives," 39 Texas Journal of Business Law 379 (Winter 2004)
- Author, "Congress Takes Action: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act," XXII Corporate Counsel Review 1 (May 2003)
- Co-Author, "The Role of the Business Law Section and the Texas Business Law Foundation in the Development of Texas Business Law," 41 Texas Journal of Business Law 41 (Spring 2005)
- Co-Author, "Asset Acquisitions: A Colloquy," X U. Miami Business Law Review 145 (Winter/Spring 2002)
- Co-Author, "Choice of State of Incorporation – Texas Versus Delaware: Is it Now Time to Rethink Traditional Notions," 54 SMU Law Review 249 (Winter 2001)
He has also written the following articles:
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