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Daryl Robertson

Texas Legislature Considers Entity Governance Legislation and Business Court Amendments

The 2025 Texas Legislature is considering a host of bills that relate to the governance of Texas entities. For lawyers who have a taste for entity governance issues, your mouths are probably salivating over the prospects of the Legislature passing several bills. In addition, an important bill that would amend various statutes relating to the Texas business court is also under consideration.

April 15, 2025 Daryl Robertson

Texas Business Courts Are Almost Here, And Other Texas Entity Governance Legislation Has Already Arrived

On Sept. 1, the Texas business court will commence accepting the filing of new cases within its jurisdiction. Certain other bills passed in the 2023 Texas Legislature have already gone into effect are summarized in this article and will affect the governance of entities in Texas.

May 8, 2024 Daryl Robertson

Registered Series in Texas LLCs are Almost Here

On June 1 amendments to the Texas Business Organizations Code adopted in the 2021 Texas Legislature will become effective. This article highlights how one of those amendments can be expected to bring better transparency and usefulness for series of Texas limited liability companies.

May 3, 2022 Daryl Robertson

2021 Texas Legislature Moves Forward on Changing Business Entity Laws

In this article, Hunton AK partner Daryl Robertson reviews three bills drafted by the Committees of the State Bar of Texas Business Law Section that have been passed by the Texas Legislature.

May 13, 2021 Daryl Robertson

Expect More Changes in Entity Laws from the 2019 Texas Legislature

It looks like the 2019 session of the Texas Legislature will likely enact a variety of changes to the state's business entity laws. Texas lawyers can find out what these changes could mean at the 17th Annual “Choice, Governance & Acquisition of Entities” course to be held on May 24, in Dallas at the Park Cities Hilton.

May 8, 2019 Daryl Robertson

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  • P.S. — ‘Dean of the Texas Appellate Bar’ Honored, HBA Launches Days of Service and How to Boost Giving to LANWT   - In this week’s column, renowned appellate attorney Mike Hatchell of Haynes Boone is set to receive the Chief Justice Jack Pope Professionalism Award for his decadeslong contributions to appellate law in Texas. The Houston Bar Association also announced its new Days of Service initiative. And the Texas Indigent Defense Commission approved more than $1.7 million in grants to bolster mental health defense services and public defender capacity across rural counties.  September 5, 2025Krista Torralva
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GCs, Lawyers & Firms

  • Former Energy GC Brock Degeyter Joins Troutman Pepper Locke in Dallas - Degeyter was most recently the general counsel, chief compliance officer, and secretary of Medallion Midstream until its $2.6 billion acquisition by ONEOK, which closed last October. His in-house resume also includes helping lead Summit Midstream's IPO and working on the historic leveraged buyout of TXU Corp.
  • Hunton AK Adds New Leader of Appellate Practice
  • Dallas PE Partner Boomerangs Back to Weil
  • Ret. Judge Barbara Lynn Joins Lynn Pinker
  • Holland & Knight Hires Another Longtime King & Spalding Healthcare Veteran
  • Barnes & Thornburg Adds PE Hire in Dallas
  • McKool Smith Hires High-Ranking U.S. Prosecutor in Dallas
  • Hicks Johnson Hires New Leader of its Appellate Practice 
  • Spencer Fane Adds IP Leader from Wick Phillips
  • DOJ Environmental Lawyer Joins Phelps Dunbar in Austin
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Barry Barnett
Wes Bearden
Emily Westridge Black
Michael Burke
Alicia Campbell
John Campbell
Madeleine Carpenter
Alexander Clark
Dawn Pittman Collins
Richard Finneran
Elizabeth Freeman
David Gail
Elizabeth Gibson
David Jones
Frank Lopez
Abbe Lowell
Neal Manne
Billy Marsh
Tom Melsheimer
Tasha Moser
Justin Nelson
Reed O'Connor
Kate Pennartz
John “J.” Pieratt
Danielle Reyes
Christopher Richardson
Randy Sorrels
Harry Susman
Larry Vincent
Victor Vital
Brent Walker
Matt Weybrecht
Melody Wilkinson
Alex Wolens

Firms in the News

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A&O Shearman
Bryan Cave
Cozen O'Connor
Haynes Boone
Holland & Knight
Jackson Walker
King & Spalding
Kirkland & Ellis
Law Office of Liz Freeman
Paul Hastings
Porter Hedges
Sorrels Law
Susman Godfrey
Toyota
Troutman Pepper Locke
Willkie
Vinson & Elkins
Weil
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