About Darrell
Darrell Windham is the managing member of the firm’s Austin office and has forty years of experience representing early stage companies, publicly traded and privately held clients, private equity funds and investors in complex mergers and acquisitions (M&A), strategic joint ventures, capital markets and other domestic and global business transactions. Darrell has experience in a wide variety of industries, including life sciences, medical devices, technology, software and semi-conductors, entertainment and media, manufacturing and construction, and consumer products.Darrell represents both strategic and private equity buyers and sellers in a variety of M&A transactions, including corporate reorganizations and recapitalizations, joint ventures, strategic alliances and multiple stage funding to buyout transactions. Darrell represents issuers, underwriters, investors and private equity funds in capital raising transactions, such as initial and secondary public offerings, private placements of debt and equity securities and new fund formation.Darrell has served as a director and executive officer of publicly held companies and private businesses and in leadership positions in many state, local and national charitable and non-profit organizations, including serving as President and Chairman of the Texas Exes and as the first President of the Contemporary Austin.
Darrell Windham is the managing member of the firm’s Austin office and has forty years of experience representing early stage companies, publicly traded and privately held clients, private equity funds and investors in complex mergers and acquisitions (M&A), strategic joint ventures, capital markets and other domestic and global business transactions. Darrell has experience in a wide variety of industries, including life sciences, medical devices, technology, software and semi-conductors, entertainment and media, manufacturing and construction, and consumer products.
Darrell represents both strategic and private equity buyers and sellers in a variety of M&A transactions, including corporate reorganizations and recapitalizations, joint ventures, strategic alliances and multiple stage funding to buyout transactions. Darrell represents issuers, underwriters, investors and private equity funds in capital raising transactions, such as initial and secondary public offerings, private placements of debt and equity securities and new fund formation.
Darrell has served as a director and executive officer of publicly held companies and private businesses and in leadership positions in many state, local and national charitable and non-profit organizations, including serving as President and Chairman of the Texas Exes and as the first President of the Contemporary Austin.
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Awards & Recognition
- Lawyer of the Year: Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Austin (2024)
- Recognized: Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
- Recognized: Corporate Law
- Recognized: Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Practice Area: Securities / Capital Markets Law
- Special Focus: Corporate Finance
- Special Focus: Mergers & Acquisitions
- Special Focus: Securities
- AV Preeminent® 5.0 out of 5
- Super Lawyers magazine, Texas Super Lawyers, 2009
- "Texas' Top Rated Lawyers," 2012
- Chambers USA Guide, 2009-2010, 2012-2013
- Corporate Board Member magazine and FTI Consulting Inc., one of "America’s Best Corporate Law Firms," 13th Annual Legal Industry Study, 2013