Texas Pacific Land GC Dobbs Navigated ‘Sensitive Board Dynamics’ at ‘Pivotal Time’ 

When Micheal W. Dobbs took his first in-house job and joined Texas Pacific Land Corporation in August 2020, the pandemic was raging and the company was in the midst of arguably the biggest change in its more than 132-year history: transitioning from operating as a liquidating business trust to a Delaware corporation.

Dobbs is now the senior vice president, secretary and general counsel of TPL, which is one of the largest landowners in the state. Its 880,000 acres — more acreage than the entirety of the state of Rhode Island — stretch in checkerboard patterns from El Paso County to Concho County, about 150 miles east of Midland.