Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. partner, Darrell R. Windham, is the head of the Corporate/Business section in the firm's Austin location. Darrell has more than thirty years of experience in all types of business and securities matters, including mergers and acquisitions, financing transactions and public and private securities offerings. Darrell also advises clients on business start-ups and organizations, strategic alliances, joint ventures and other domestic and international business transactions and securities law compliance.

Darrell has served as lead counsel representing acquirors and sellers in hundreds of M&A transactions and securities offerings.  The following lists just a few of the representative transactions in which Darrell has recently served as lead counsel during the past six years.

• Representation of a publicly held medical device company in which the client was acquired by Blackstone Capital Partners V, L.P in a going private transaction; total value of the transaction was approximately $900 million, which at the time of the closing, represented the most ever paid for an Austin-based company; transaction also involved public debt and senior secured debt offerings aggregating $600 million
• Representation of an acquiror of a national financial services company in which the two principal shareholders of seller received shares of stock in and promissory notes of the acquiring company
• Representation of a publicly held medical device company in connection with its initial public offering and a subsequent registered secondary public offering of common stock with aggregate offering proceeds of approximately $104 million
• Representation of a publicly held medical device company in two publicly registered stock acquisitions through mergers of two publicly held manufacturers of pain management, rehabilitation, fitness and sports performance products with aggregate purchase prices of approximately $500 million which involved the issuance of the client's publicly registered securities
• Representation of a semiconductor manufacturer owned by private equity firms in the sale/spin off of the client’s magnetic memory business into a newly-formed corporation in which the client received shares of common stock and which was funded by venture capital and private equity firms in a Series A Preferred Stock financing by the new corporation in related transactions valued at $50 million
• Representation of an oil and gas company in connection with a reorganization transaction involving the assignment of more than $100 million in oil and gas assets
• Representation of a private equity fund of funds in connection with its evaluation of and investment in more than twenty private equity and hedge funds and certain direct investments

• American Bar Association

  • Business Law Section
• State Bar of Texas
  • Securities Law and Venture Capital Committees of the Business Law Section
• Travis County Bar Association
  • Business and Technology Law Section

1978 - J.D., honors, The University of Texas School of Law
1975 - B.B.A, Accounting, highest honors, The University of Texas at Austin

Darrell is admitted to practice law in Texas.

• The University of Texas at Austin
  • Ex-Student's Association (Past Chairman and President)
  • Men's Athletic Council, Member
  • Longhorn Foundation, Director
  • Austin Longhorn Club, Director
  • Commission of 125, Member
  • McDonald Observatory and Astronomy Board of Visitors
• University of Texas System
  • Executive Committee of the Chancellor's Council
  • Friends of the University, Director
• National Association of Corporate Directors, Director of Texas TriCities Chapter
• Austin Chamber of Commerce - Economic Development Council
• Austin Museum of Art, Trustee and First Vice President
• Texas Business Hall of Fame, Director
• Knights of the Austin Symphony Orchestra Society
• Austin Chapter of the College Football Hall of Fame Foundation, Director
• Sun Bowl Association, Former President and Lifetime Member of Selection Committee
• El Paso Symphony Orchestra Association, Former Chairman
• Nature Conservancy, Austin Development Board Member