Jackson Walker partner Byron Egan has been awarded the 2009 Burton Award for Legal Achievement. This is Mr. Egan's fourth time to be honored, which sets a record for most Burton Awards received by an individual. Mr. Egan was presented with the award at the Tenth Anniversary Burton Awards ceremony, which took place June 15 at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Egan's latest award-winning work is titled "Choice of Entity Decision Tree After Margin Tax and Texas Business Organizations Code." He previously won the Burton Award for Legal Achievement in 2005, 2006, and 2008. To view a copy of Mr. Egan's article, CLICK HERE.

The Burton Award, one of the highest literary honors in law, recognizes effective legal writing. The program honors lawyers who use plain, clear, and concise language and avoid archaic, stilted legalese. To learn more about the awards ceremony, CLICK HERE.

Mr. Egan is engaged in a corporate, partnership, securities, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and financing practice. He 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. Mr. Egan received his B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of Texas. After law school, he served as a law clerk for Judge Irving L. Goldberg on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit during 1968 and 1969.

For over ten years, Mr. Egan has been listed in Best Lawyers in America under Corporate, M&A, or Securities Law. Mr. Egan 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, Texas Monthly, The M&A Journal (which profiled him in 2005), and Who's Who Legal. He was specifically listed as the only Texan in the The International Who's Who of Merger and Acquisition Lawyers 2008.