Daryl's practice focuses on business and finance transactions, entity formation, M&A and securities law. Daryl has experience in sophisticated and complicated business transactions in various practice areas, including corporate, commercial real estate, private equity, oil and gas, and secured lending. He represents entrepreneurs, hospitality firms, REITs, private equity investors, financial institutions and other businesses in a wide variety of matters, including purchases and sales of hotels, restaurants, oil and gas, and other real estate properties, formation of real estate investment funds, sales of REITs, commercial and real estate loans, oil and gas production loans, private and public offerings of securities, securities reporting for public companies, management agreements and leases for hotels, office buildings and oil and gas properties, joint venture and partnership agreements, asset securitizations, merger agreements, purchase and sale agreements, shareholders' agreements, and the structuring and documentation of other transactions of wide variety.

Bar Admissions
Texas

Education
JD, Harvard Law School, cum laude, 1979

BA, Chemistry and Management Sciences, Duke University, summa cum laude, 1976

2 Takeaways From 3rd Circ.'s J&J Bankruptcy Ruling, Law360

2007 Amendments to the Texas Business Organizations Code, 42 Texas Journal of Business Law 258

2009 Amendments to the Texas Business Organizations Code, 43 Texas Journal of Business Law 571

2011 Legislative Update: Amendments to the Texas Business Organizations Code and Texas Business and Commerce Code, Legislative Changes Affecting Business Entities Webcast, Texas Bar CLE

2013 Legislative Update: Amendments to the Texas Business Organizations Code and Texas Business and Commerce Code, published at Texas State Bar Annual Meeting, June 2013, and 2013 LLCs, LPs and Partnerships Conference

2015 Texas Legislative Update on Business Law, Texas Bar Journal

2015 Texas Legislative Update on Entity Law, 46 Tex. Journal of Bus. Law 47

2017 Legislative Update on Business Law, Texas Bar Journal

2019 Legislative Update on Business Law, Texas Bar Journal

2021 Legislative Update on Business Law, Texas Bar Journal

2021 Texas Legislature Moves Forward on Changing Business Entity Laws, The Texas Lawbook

A Front-Row View of Texas Corporate Law's Evolution: From the First TBOC Drafts to 'DExit' and 'Y'all Street'

Business Law

Business Law, Texas Bar Journal

Business Law, Texas Bar Journal (Legislative Update)

Business Law, Texas Bar Journal (Legislative Update)

Business Law, Texas Bar Journal (Legislative Update)

Capital Markets 2025 Year in Review

Comparison of Limited Liability Company Laws of Texas and Delaware, 2012 LLCs, LPs and Partnerships Conference

Dealing With Bondholders in Troubled Times, Pratt's Journal of Bankruptcy Law

Expect More Changes in Entity Laws from the 2019 Texas Legislature, The Texas Lawbook

New exemption from federal broker-dealer registration for M&A brokers, Reuters Westlaw Today

New Exemption from Federal Broker-Dealer Registration for M&A Brokers, The Review of Securities & Commodities Regulation

New exemption from federal broker-dealer registration for M&A brokers, Westlaw Today

Registered Series in Texas LLCs are Almost Here, The Texas Lawbook

Rights to Information of Owners and Governing Persons of Texas Entities Under the Texas Business Organizations Code, Corporate Counsel Review

Securities Laws and Prepetition Solicitation of Bankruptcy Plans, Mealey's Emerging Securities Litigation

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

Texas Legislature Considers Entity Governance Legislation and Business Court Amendments