Vinson & Elkins’ Dallas office has grown to become one of the largest law offices in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, focusing on transactional, litigation, and regulatory matters involving financial services, energy, power, real estate, aviation, and transportation and logistics.
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Vinson & Elkins’ Dallas office has grown to become one of the largest law offices in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, with more than 150 lawyers providing legal services to a broad spectrum of national and international clients. The Dallas office is home to many of the firm’s key practice groups and offers a full range of client services in transactional, litigation, and regulatory matters.
Our clients include some of the largest companies in Texas and a number of Fortune 1000 companies that span industries like financial services, energy, power, real estate, power, aviation and transportation. Lawyers in the Dallas office are frequently recognized as among the best in their fields in surveys by leading publications such as Chambers USA, Legal 500 U.S., U.S. News – Best Lawyers®, Who’s Who Legal, Benchmark Litigation, and Super Lawyers.
V&E’s commitment to Dallas is reflected in our charitable efforts, pro bono legal services, and community involvement. The Dallas office actively supports a number of local charitable organizations with both time commitments from our lawyers and financial support, including but not limited to Vogel Alcove, a child care center for homeless children; the American Heart Association; Dallas CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates); Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy; Business Council for the Arts; Texas Defender Services, leading the fight to end of mass incarceration and excessive punishment in Texas through direct representation, policy reform, and public education; Wesley Rankin Community Center, an organization focused on transforming lives in West Dallas through education, social services, and nurturing of a multigenerational community. In addition, V&E is proud to provide scholarships, internships, and clerkships to deserving high school, college, and law students in the Dallas area.
Pro bono work is an important part of V&E’s culture, and the Dallas office has a number of active pro bono projects. In addition to numerous individual pro bono efforts, the lawyers in the Dallas office have partnered with the Dallas Volunteer Lawyers Program to represent families seeking to obtain guardianship over their incapacitated adult children; Texas Appleseed to represent students in truancy cases and other matters impacting homeless youth; and the Human Rights Initiative of North Texas to represent immigrants in asylum proceedings.
Located in the heart of the city’s arts district, the Dallas office is a committed patron of the arts. The Dallas lawyers serve on boards and committees for museums and performing arts groups and have provided pro bono legal representation to North Texas Public Broadcasting, Inc. (KERA) for many years. The services provided to KERA earned V&E the 2014 Obelisk Award in the Arts Partnership, which recognizes outstanding contributions by businesses or business leaders to North Texas arts and cultural organizations.
At Vinson & Elkins, we bring decades of knowledge, skill, and experience to our clients’ most complex legal matters.
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Texas Stock Exchange Receives SEC Approval
The Texas Stock Exchange (TXSE), based in Dallas, Texas, has received approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission to operate as an exchange, with plans to begin listing shares in 2026.
October 2, 2025
October 2, 2025 • 1-minute read
Client Alerts
Insights from the SEC Roundtable on Executive Compensation Disclosure Requirements
On June 26, 2025, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) hosted a roundtable on executive compensation disclosure requirements.
July 8, 2025 • V&E Corporate Governance Update | Published by Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, July 2025
July 8, 2025 • 8-minute read
Client Alerts
On July 24, 2025, the two largest U.S. proxy advisory firms—Glass, Lewis & Co. (“Glass Lewis”) and Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (“ISS”)—each separately filed suit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas challenging recently enacted Texas Senate Bill 2337 (“SB 2337”).
September 2, 2025 • V&E Governance & Sustainability Update
September 2, 2025 • 6-minute read
Client Alerts
The Texas Legislature was active this Session in proposing and passing bills that seek to restrict foreign ownership of real estate and businesses in Texas.
September 17, 2025 • V&E CFIUS Update Published by The Real Estate Finance Journal, November 2025
September 17, 2025 • 6-minute read
Client Alerts
In the latest instance of a private equity seller vindicating contractual rights in the Delaware Court of Chancery, on April 30, Vice Chancellor Lori W. Will rejected attempts by minority LLC members in urgent care provider CityMD to avoid the clear terms of their LLC agreement by urging the court to impose fiduciary duty-type obligations on the majority owner and seller, Warburg Pincus, LLC and funds it controls (“WP Investors”).
May 7, 2025 • V&E Corporate Governance Update Published by Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance
May 7, 2025 • 9-minute read
Client Alerts
Local Insight: The New Rules of the Texas Business Court Explained
On March 1, 2025, the Texas Business Court (the “Business Court”) implemented new local rules aimed at enhancing the efficiency and fairness of business dispute resolutions. Key changes include new provisions involving exchanging benches, supplemental jurisdiction waivers, corporate disclosure requirements, streamlined discovery dispute procedures, the concept of a Mediation Wheel, and a new guideline for the use of artificial intelligence. These rules, unanimously approved by all ten judges, mark a significant shift in the Business Court’s operational framework.
April 14, 2025
April 14, 2025 • 6-minute read
Client Alerts
As we previously discussed and in alignment with the U.S. Treasury Department’s previous announcement, on March 21, 2025, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) issued an interim final rule that dramatically narrows the reporting requirements for beneficial ownership information (“BOI”) under the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”).
March 27, 2025 • V&E CTA Update
March 27, 2025 • 2-minute read
Deals & Cases
Vinson & Elkins advised KLX Energy Services Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: KLXE) (the “Company”), an onshore provider of oilfield services servicing the Permian, Eagle Ford, Rockies, Bakken, Marcellus, Utica and MidCon basins, in a refinancing transaction (the “Refinancing”).
March 20, 2025
March 20, 2025 • 1-minute read
Deals & Cases
HF Sinclair Corporation Announces Pricing of Senior Notes Offering
Vinson & Elkins represented HF Sinclair Corporation (“HF Sinclair”) in the issuance of $1.4 billion aggregate principal amount of senior notes, consisting of $650 million aggregate principal amount of 5.750% Senior Notes due 2031 (the “2031 Notes”) and $750 million aggregate principal amount of 6.250% Senior Notes due 2035 (the “2035 Notes,” and together with the 2031 Notes, the “Notes”) in a registered offering.
January 24, 2025
January 24, 2025 • 1-minute read
Deals & Cases
Vinson & Elkins advised Outrigger Energy II LLC in its entry into a definitive agreement for the sale of its subsidiary OE2 North Holdings LLC, including its natural gas gathering and processing assets in the Williston Basin of North Dakota, to Hiland Partners Holdings LLC, a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan, Inc. (NYSE: KMI), for $640,000,000, subject to customary purchase price adjustments. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2025.
January 16, 2025
January 16, 2025 • 1-minute read
Deals & Cases
Vinson & Elkins Represents CrownRock in $1.72 Billion Secondary Stock Offering
Vinson & Elkins LLP advised CrownRock Holdings, L.P. (“CrownRock”) in connection with CrownRock’s $1.72 billion underwritten secondary offering of 29,560,619 shares of common stock, par value $0.20 per share, of Occidental Petroleum Corporation (“Oxy”).
August 15, 2024
August 15, 2024 • 1-minute read
Deals & Cases
Vinson & Elkins recently concluded the successful defense of an 18-month investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) into alleged violations of numerous securities laws by an important firm client and market leader in the precious metals industry.
July 25, 2024
July 25, 2024 • 2-minute read
Deals & Cases
EnCap Energy Transition Closes $1.5 Billion Energy Transition Fund II
Vinson & Elkins advised EnCap Investments L.P. in the successful formation of EnCap Energy Transition Fund II with total commitments of approximately $1.5 billion.
May 9, 2024
May 9, 2024 • 1-minute read
Deals & Cases
Vinson & Elkins represented Citigroup Global Markets Inc. (“Citi”), as the representative of the initial purchasers, in connection with a private offering (the “Offering”) of $1.8 billion aggregate principal amount of senior notes, consisting of $900 million of 8.250% Senior Notes due 2029 (the “2029 Notes”) and $900 million of 8.500% Senior Notes due 2031 (the “2031 Notes” and, together with the 2029 Notes, the “Notes”) by Transocean Inc. (the “Issuer”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG).
April 16, 2024
April 16, 2024 • 1-minute read
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