Daryl B. Robertson

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.

• Represented clients in numerous mergers, purchases and sales of entities and assets aggregating in value in excess of $20 billion, including transactions of wide variety and size.
• Represented private equity clients in sale of more than 50 private REITs in numerous separate transactions aggregating more than $6 billion in sales price.
• Represented issuers and underwriters in numerous public and private offerings of debt and equity securities, including IPO, Reg D and Rule 144A offerings.
• Represented private equity clients in formation of more than 150 private REITs.
• Represented borrowers in numerous loan financing transactions.
• Represented clients in purchasing and selling numerous hotel, oil and gas and real estate properties.
• Represented lenders in loans secured by real properties, oil and gas properties and private equity investor commitments.
• Advised and assisted clients on formation of numerous entities, including issues relating to governance, ownership, structure, management and legal compliance and private equity fund formation.
• Advised and assisted bank clients regarding issues with problem checks, check kiting, wire transfers, fraudulent checks and ACH transactions.

• Legal 500 USA: The Clients’ Guide to the US Legal Profession. Recommended Lawyer in Real Estate, 2016
• Best Lawyers in America, 2001-2024
• Texas Super Lawyers, published by Texas Monthly, 2003-2019; Top-Notch Lawyer, 2007
• Certificate of Merit, State Bar of Texas, 2000
• Five Star Wealth Managers, published by Texas Monthly and Five Star Professional, 2010-2012
• International Who’s Who of Corporate Governance Lawyers, 2011-2013

• Member, Corporate Counsel, Business Law and Real Property, Probate and Trust Sections of American Bar Association
• Member, Corporate Counsel, Business Law, Oil, Gas and Energy Resources Law, and Real Property, Probate and Trust Sections of Texas State Bar Association
• Chair, Business Organizations Code Committee of Business Law Section, 1995-2023, Former Chair and Council Member, Business Law Section, Former Chair, Commercial Code Committee, Primary draftsman of Texas Business Organizations Code, Reporter on UCC Articles 2A, 3 and 4, Texas State Bar Association
• Founding Fellow of the American College of LLC and Partnership Attorneys
• Executive Committee Member, Director and former Chair, Texas Business Law Foundation
• Member, Texas Bar Foundation
• Member, Dallas Bar Foundation
• Member, American Law Institute