Biography
Alden S. Crow is a Dallas transactional lawyer with extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity securities offerings, outside counsel representation and general corporate matters. His organized, persistent, and pragmatic approach to client service ensures that his clients are well informed and exceptionally prepared at every stage of the transaction process.
Alden serves as chair of the Firm’s Corporate and Securities practice group.
He routinely assists clients in all types of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and joint venture formations, and in negotiating and settling business “divorces,” indemnification and other transactional disputes. He has worked with clients in a broad range of industries and has developed particular experience assisting clients in the healthcare sector. His representative healthcare clients include the following:
- Assisted living facilities
- Home healthcare providers
- Hospitals, including physician-owned hospitals
- Nursing homes
- Management companies
- Pharmacies, including compounding and retail pharmacies
- Physicians and physician groups
- Skilled nursing facilities
- Telemedicine companies, including telebehavioral and telecounseling companies
- Urgent care and occupation medicine providers
- Urinalysis facilities
In addition to his transactional practice, he works as part of a team that represents family-owned businesses, entrepreneurs, and startup and emerging growth companies from the earliest stages of formation through significant liquidity events. This often involves serving in an outside general counsel role managing the legal issues related to each growth stage and providing value-added solutions to help clients achieve their specific business goals, while effectively managing legal costs.
In each area of his practice, he takes the time to thoroughly understand his clients’ priorities and develop a strategic approach to evaluating potential risks. He emphasizes responsiveness by communicating regularly with clients through frequent calls, meetings and reminders to ensure that clients are apprised of developments throughout the process from inception to closing and beyond.
Education
B.A., with honors, University of Texas at Austin
J.D., magna cum laude, SMU Dedman School of Law
- Order of the Coif, Top 10 percent
- Associate Managing Editor, SMU Law Review
Bar Admissions
Texas
- Corporate & Securities
- Healthcare
- Outside General Counsel
- The Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White Inc.), 2023-2024
- Corporate Law, 2023-2024
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law, 2024
- Texas Rising Star, Super Lawyers by Thomson Reuters, 2022
- “Best Lawyers in Dallas” List, D Magazine, 2018, 2020, 2022-2023
- “Best Lawyers Under 40” List, D Magazine, 2018, 2019, 2021
Author of “Shooting Blanks: The Ineffectiveness of the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act,” 59 SMU L. Rev. 1813, 2006
- North Texas Business Council for the Arts, Leadership Arts Institute, 2011-2012
Jackson Walker Represents Diversified Pure Chem in Sale to Global Company
September 29, 2017
Jackson Walker Represents Teladoc in $50 Million Equity Funding
September 25, 2014

August 17, 2023
Attorney News‘The Best Lawyers in America’ Honors 287 Jackson Walker Attorneys in 2024 Edition, Including 12 “Lawyers of the Year” and 80 “Ones to Watch”
The Best Lawyers in America has recognized 287 Jackson Walker attorneys across 5 offices and 82 specialty practice areas in its 2024 edition, including 12 Lawyers of the Year and 80 Ones to Watch. In this year’s guide, Jackson Walker saw the largest number of attorneys in the areas of Commercial Litigation (66 attorneys) and Real Estate Law (60 attorneys) and the addition of 35 attorneys as Best Lawyers.

April 25, 2023
Attorney NewsJackson Walker Congratulates 24 Attorneys Named Among 2023 “Best Lawyers in Dallas” List
Jackson Walker congratulates the 24 attorneys recognized among D Magazine’s list of the “Best Lawyers in Dallas” for 2023. For recognition in the list, Dallas attorneys must be nominated by their peers on the basis that they offer unmatched counsel in one of 40 categories.

November 28, 2022
Attorney NewsJackson Walker Welcomes Carolyn Mulvey to Corporate & Securities Practice
Carolyn Mulvey represents companies in mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, and corporate restructuring transactions. She has extensive experience advising private companies and family offices in a broad array of transactional matters.

August 18, 2022
Attorney News‘The Best Lawyers in America’ Honors 214 Jackson Walker Attorneys in 2023 Edition, Including 11 “Lawyers of the Year” and 41 “Ones to Watch”
The Best Lawyers in America has recognized 214 Jackson Walker attorneys across 6 offices and 79 specialty practice areas in its 2023 edition, including 11 Lawyers of the Year and 41 Ones to Watch. Best Lawyers listings are based on an exhaustive peer review survey of thousands of attorneys who vote on the legal abilities of others in their practice areas.

April 25, 2022
Attorney NewsJackson Walker Congratulates 21 Attorneys Named Among 2022 “Best Lawyers in Dallas” List
Jackson Walker congratulates the 21 attorneys recognized among D Magazine’s list of the “Best Lawyers in Dallas” for 2022. For recognition in the list, Dallas attorneys must be nominated by their peers on the basis that they offer unmatched counsel in one of 40 categories.

March 22, 2022
Attorney NewsJackson Walker Congratulates Its 2022 Texas Rising Stars
Jackson Walker is pleased to announce the selection of 51 attorneys to Thomson Reuters’ 2022 “Super Lawyers – Rising Stars” list, which recognizes only 2.5% of Texas attorneys who either are 40 years of age or younger or have been in practice for 10 years or less.

November 1, 2021
Attorney NewsVeteran M&A Attorneys Lidji & Hooper Join Jackson Walker
Jackson Walker is pleased to announce the addition of Brian Lidji and Kyle Hooper as partners in the Dallas office. Brian and Kyle are widely recognized as two of the leading mergers and acquisitions attorneys in Texas and throughout the Southwest, and they bring their experience closing billions of dollars of transactions to the Firm’s Chambers-ranked Corporate & Securities practice.

October 21, 2021
Attorney NewsJackson Walker Welcomes Corporate & Securities Team Led by Evan Malloy and Chelsea Wood to Fort Worth
Jackson Walker is pleased to announce the addition of Evan M. Malloy and Chelsea T. Wood as partners in the Fort Worth office, along with new associates Taylor Cummins, Kayla Matus, and Nathan McCune. Joining our Chambers-ranked Corporate & Securities practice, Evan and Chelsea and their team will expand the Firm’s experience handling mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance matters, and capital markets transactions.

September 13, 2021
Attorney NewsJackson Walker Welcomes Brad Mahanay to Dallas Corporate & Securities Group
Joining our Chambers USA-ranked Corporate & Securities practice, Brad Mahanay focuses on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and corporate finance for clients in the manufacturing, private investments, healthcare, real estate development, and energy services industries.

January 6, 2021
Attorney News‘D Magazine’ Lists Chris Bankler, Alden Crow, James McFall, and Brad Nitschke Among “Best Lawyers Under 40”
Jackson Walker congratulates Dallas partners Chris Bankler, Alden Crow, James McFall, and Brad Nitschke on their inclusion in D Magazine’s 2021 “Best Lawyers Under 40” list recognizing outstanding young attorneys in the North Texas area.