We recently celebrated 75 years since our founders Richard A. Gump and Ambassador Robert S. Strauss started the firm in Dallas. They chose Dallas because it was rapidly evolving into a major business center with a central location and the entrepreneurial environment necessary to build a cutting-edge, forward-looking law firm.

Our Dallas office reflects Akin’s strong roots in, and firm commitment to, the Lone Star State.  Thanks to the visionary leadership of our founders and others who came after, we’ve grown Akin into a 900-lawyer global firm positioned at the intersection of commerce, policy and the law. Our Dallas office thrives today with the same spirit, foresight and dedication to delivering the best service possible to our clients locally and worldwide.

The Texas Lawbook included Akin among a group of “elite” firms in Texas whose names denote “prestige, strength, distinction and even superiority” with the “smartest, most successful” lawyers in the Lone Star State, with clients that seek it out for help with “massive problems or bet-the-company matters.” 

Law360 also recognized Akin as one of five Texas Powerhouse firms “that showed prowess in delivering for their clients across a wide range of practice groups” and “working on deals both global in scale and those that have a major impact at home in Texas.” 

Akin Dallas is home to many of the firm’s key practices, including mergers and acquisitions (M&A), finance, corporate and securities, energy, investment management, private equity, litigation, data privacy, financial restructuring, real estate, tax and international trade.

2300 N. Field Street
Suite 1800
Dallas, TX 75201-2481 US

2300 N. Field Street
Suite 1800
Dallas, TX 75201-2481 US

Dallas Services & Sectors

Corporate

As trusted corporate advisors and powerhouse dealmakers, Akin Dallas helps clients achieve their strategic goals and has consistently been listed as a leader in the North Texas legal market. Our Dallas-based team recently advised 7-Eleven Inc. in their agreement to acquire approximately 3,900 Speedway stores located in 35 states, for $21 billion in cash, which is the largest acquisition in sector history.

Our experienced corporate lawyers regularly counsel public and private companies, private equity funds and their portfolio companies, hedge funds, family offices and financial advisors.  Our corporate practice focuses on M&A, capital markets, corporate governance, finance and private equity. We frequently collaborate with our financial restructuring lawyers on chapter 11 and out-of-court restructurings, as well as on a variety of distressed transactions. By combining our multidisciplinary approach and the resources of a full-service global law firm, we support our clients—wherever and whenever they do business—effectively and efficiently. 

With a focus on the energy industry, our Dallas-based corporate lawyers have advised on some of the largest and most cutting-edge energy transactions and projects around the world. Our energy practice includes the representation of publicly traded and privately held companies as well as financial institutions, private equity funds, sovereign governments and national energy companies in their various roles as developers, issuers, underwriters, lenders and borrowers.

We do a wide variety of public and private equity and debt offerings and lending transactions; mergers, acquisitions and divestitures; and structuring and implementation of direct investments across global markets. Our energy experience spans the value chain, including oil and gas, petrochemicals, liquefied natural gas, coal, utilities and renewables.