Jackson Walker partner Byron F. Egan was featured in a Financial Times article discussing Texas Business Courts, highlighting Texas’s success in attracting businesses through lower taxes and regulations.

In the article, Byron stated, “I think the business courts are basically adding one element that has been missing. The expectation is that as Texas gets to be fully recognized as a better place to be domiciled and doing business, you’ll see more people choose to domicile here.”

“The expectation is that as Texas gets to be fully recognized as a better place to be domiciled and doing business, you’ll see more people choose to domicile here.”

To read the full Financial Times article, visit “Will US companies keep faith in the ‘Texas miracle’?.”

For further context and details on the new business courts, read the article by Byron Egan entitled “Texas Business Courts” prepared for the TexasBarCLE 26th Annual Summer School.

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 a number of 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.