Shane Goodwin › M&A expert witness
Expert witness · Litigation support
Testimony and consulting on how transactions are actually run: sale processes and market checks, board and banker conduct, activism and contested deals, financing, and transaction disclosure.
Discuss an engagementProcessSale-process design and conduct: auctions, market checks, go-shops, exclusivity, and the record a well-run process leaves.
BoardsBoard and special-committee conduct in transactions, including conflicted and controller deals.
ActivismShareholder activism and contested situations: campaign economics, settlement dynamics, defense conduct.
BankingFinancial-advisor engagement, fairness-opinion practice, and banker-conflict questions.
DisclosureProxy and tender-offer disclosure practice in transactions, measured against market norms.
Nearly 25 years 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.
Governance Advisor to Tesla's Special Committee (2025 CEO Performance Award, disclosed in the company's proxy statement); expert witness for Google in United States v. Google LLC (E.D. Va., remedy phase).
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.