Shane Goodwin › Corporate governance & fiduciary-duty expert
Expert witness · Litigation support
Testimony and consulting on board process and fiduciary conduct: what directors decided, on what record, against which standard — under Delaware law and the post-2025 Texas framework.
Discuss an engagementDutiesFiduciary-duty analysis: care, loyalty, oversight, and the process record that evidences each.
CommitteesSpecial-committee formation, mandate, independence, and conduct in conflicted transactions.
ControllersController transactions and cleansing mechanisms, Delaware and Texas variants.
CompensationExecutive-compensation process and disclosure, including extraordinary awards.
TexasThe 2025 Texas reforms (SB 29 and companion statutes) and the Texas Business Court — on which Goodwin publishes the leading empirical dataset and testified before the Texas Senate.
AIBoard oversight of artificial intelligence: emerging governance standards and the board record they require.
Decades of experience executing M&A, activism defense, and financing at Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo Securities — opinions grounded in how these decisions are actually made.
Professor of Practice in Finance (SMU Cox) and Adjunct Professor of Law (SMU Dedman); Ph.D. and LL.M. The finance and the law in one witness.
Testified before the Texas Senate on SB 29; advises on Texas-law fiduciary questions as Governance Advisor to Tesla's Special Committee; publishes the Texas Business Court Codex — the doctrinally coded corpus of that court's opinions.
Opinions are built the way the SMU Corporate Governance Initiative builds its public datasets: primary sources, documented methodology, and analysis a court — or an opposing expert — can trace to its inputs. See the Reincorporation Index and the Texas Business Court Codex.