As the creator of the American Bar Association’s (ABA) influential M&A Deal Points Studies, Wilson is widely recognized for his thought leadership that continues to shape M&A practice globally. He was a founding co-chair of the ABA’s M&A Market Trends Subcommittee, which publishes the Deal Points Studies. From 2018-2021, Wilson served as Chair of the ABA’s M&A Committee, the largest group of its kind in the world.

Wilson is founding co-chair of the University of Texas Mergers & Acquisitions Institute, the country’s leading private company M&A conference since 2005, the founding chair of the International Financial Law Review/Inter-Pacific Bar Association’s Asia M&A Forum in Hong Kong since 2005, Asia’s leading M&A law conference, and founding chair of the Mergers & Acquisitions Section of the Dallas Bar Association.

His leadership also extends to diversity in the legal profession, with a number of transformative “firsts,” including co-founding the Texas Minority Counsel Program, founding the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) Partners Committee, and co-founding the Best Lawyers Under 40 award of the NAPABA.

Wilson teaches M&A as an adjunct professor of law at Southern Methodist University School of Law. Wilson is also a member of (and has served in various leadership roles at) the New York-based Committee of 100.

Wilson is co-founder of The Alliance for Asian American Justice Inc., a national coalition of law firms and Fortune 1000 General Counsels, to stand up for victims, and prevent future acts, of anti-Asian violence.

Show Less

• Who’s Who Legal, Global Leader: M&A and Governance, 2022
• D Magazine, Best Lawyers in Dallas, 2011-2012; 2014-2022
• Who’s Who Legal, Thought Leader: M&A, 2021
• Texas Super Lawyers, Mergers & Acquisitions, 2003-2020
• Acritas Star Lawyer

Show Less