Jackson Walker Dallas partner Byron F. Egan will be a featured panelist at the inaugural Director-Executive Summit hosted by The University of Texas School of Law and McCombs School of Business on November 14-15, 2024.
The panel will discuss the newly established Texas Business Courts and their potential to enhance Texas’ appeal as a location for businesses and commercial litigation. Byron will be joined by Chief Justice Nathan L. Hecht (27th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas), with Sandra L. Phillips (General Counsel of Toyota Motor North America) serving as the moderator.
Jackson Walker is a proud sponsor of the conference. For more information, visit the Director-Executive Summit website.
Meet Byron
Byron F. Egan regularly handles business combinations of corporations, limited liability companies, and partnerships, including mergers and acquisitions, purchases and sales of stock, and other equity interests, and sales and exchanges of assets. He also handles the related entity governance and structure issues. In 2023, Byron published the fourth edition of EGAN ON ENTITIES: Corporations, Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies in Texas, a treatise on Texas, Delaware and other entity laws. Byron is the only attorney to have received the Burton Award for Legal Achievement four times and is consistently recognized among the top corporate and M&A lawyers in Texas by several publications.
Byron has consistently been recognized by Who’s Who Legal for over 15 years, including as a “Recommended” attorney in M&A and Corporate Governance and as a “Thought Leader” for M&A. He has also been named among The Best Lawyers in America since 1993 in the areas of Corporate Compliance Law, Corporate Governance Law, Corporate Law, and Mergers and Acquisitions Law.