Travis Wofford, JD

Travis Wofford is Chair of the Global M&A practice and a member of the Opinion Committee.

Travis is a trusted advisor to several public and private companies and investors in their strategic transactions, M&A governance and investor engagement, innovative capital raising activities, and complex SEC disclosure matters. Boards and management teams rely on Travis for advice on fiduciary duties, and controlling stockholder and related party transactions. Travis has assisted many clients in proxy planning and takeover defense, including "poison pill" rights plans, and is nationally recognized for structuring novel, market-moving capital-raising and liability management solutions, particularly in the energy and technology sectors.

Travis has frequently been recognized for the quality of his legal and strategic advice. For mergers and acquisitions, shareholder engagement and corporate advisory work, he has been recognized in, among others, Lawdragon's "500 Leading Dealmakers in America". The National Association of Corporate Directors named him to "Directorship 100: Governance Professionals and Institutions" of which he was one of only 9 lawyers for that year.

He is also known for leading the structuring and negotiation of financing solutions across a variety of capital sources and stakeholders. He led the sponsor's legal team for the first ever securitization collateralized with a U.S. Department of Energy Loan Program Office guarantee, which was awarded the 2024 GlobalCapital U.S. Securitization awards' Esoteric ABS Deal of the Year and ESG Deal of the Year. He was named a "2021 Texas Trailblazer" by Texas Lawyer Magazine/Law.com for his creative renewable energy financing structures. Travis also served as Texas local counsel for the first "DeSPAC" into a Texas corporation and represented Liberty Media in its inaugural SPAC initial public offering of Liberty Media Acquisition Corp., the first public-company-sponsored SPAC for corporate finance purposes.

Beyond client work, Travis shapes corporate law and policy as a member of the State Bar of Texas' Business Organizations Code Committee and testifies before the Texas legislature on changes to the corporate code. He also is an avid proponent of governance education as a director of NACD's Texas TriCities chapter. Committed to expanding access to justice, he also serves on the board of Lone Star Legal Aid, which supports more than two million low-income Texans and Arkansans. His market commentary has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Politico, Law360, MergerMarket and Institutional Investor, underscoring continued service as a trusted voice on the latest developments in M&A, capital raising and corporate governance.