Expert witness · Corporate governance · M&A · Valuation
Shane Goodwin is Professor of Practice in Finance at SMU Cox, Adjunct Professor of Law at SMU Dedman, and Executive Director of the SMU Corporate Governance Initiative. Before academia: nearly 25 years in M&A, shareholder activism, and investment banking at Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo Securities.
Discuss an engagementEvery engagement listed here is disclosed in a public filing, court docket, or legislative record, linked directly to the source.
Governance Advisor to the Special Committee of Tesla's Board of Directors in connection with the 2025 CEO Performance Award, addressing fiduciary duties under Texas law.
Tesla Definitive Proxy Statement (Sept. 17, 2025) →Expert witness for Google in the remedy phase of United States v. Google LLC, No. 1:23-cv-00108 (E.D. Va.) (Oct. 2025).
SMU faculty record →Testified before the Texas Senate Committee on State Affairs in support of Senate Bill 29 (signed May 14, 2025), which modernized the Texas Business Organizations Code.
SB 29 legislative history →Deal process, board conduct in sale processes, activism and contested transactions, disclosure practice — from a practitioner who ran these processes for two and a half decades.
Board process, special committees, controller transactions, executive compensation, Delaware and Texas standards of review — including the post-2025 Texas framework.
Business valuation, fairness-opinion practice, event-study and market-evidence analysis, damages frameworks in fiduciary and transaction litigation.
As Executive Director of the SMU Corporate Governance Initiative, Goodwin publishes source-linked, replicable datasets used by practitioners, scholars, and journalists.
DatasetThe Reincorporation Index — the live registry of U.S. public-company state-of-incorporation changes, with vote records and SEC-linked sources.
DatasetThe Texas Business Court Codex — every opinion of the Texas Business Court, doctrinally coded against the signed PDFs.
CommentaryRecent work in Fortune, Bloomberg Law, the Securities Regulation Law Journal, and the Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog — see the publications list.