Shane Goodwin › M&A expert witness
Expert witness · Litigation support
Private-equity expert witness
Testimony and consulting on sponsor transactions, portfolio-company governance, private-equity capital structures, valuation, and the duties of private-equity-appointed directors.
Discuss an engagementScope of testimony and analysis
SponsorsSponsor transactions: leveraged buyouts, take-privates, sponsor-to-sponsor deals, and the governance record they leave.
StructuresPrivate-equity capital and fund structures, controlling-stockholder considerations, and the alignment of sponsor and minority interests — the subject of his jury-trial testimony in VLSI v. Intel.
DirectorsThe conduct and duties of private-equity-appointed directors on portfolio-company boards — the subject of his testimony in Martino-Fleming.
ValuationValuation in sponsor transactions: entry and exit pricing, fairness-opinion practice, and market evidence.
TeachingTeaches private equity and leveraged buyouts at SMU Cox — graduate coursework and the Private Equity session of the executive-education M&A program.
Why counsel retain him
Practitioner first
Nearly 25 years in investment banking and corporate finance at Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo Securities — opinions grounded in how sponsor deals are actually structured and financed.
Dual-discipline academic
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.
Tested on the public record
Jury-trial testimony on private-equity structures, controlling-stockholder considerations, and fiduciary duties in VLSI Technology LLC v. Intel Corporation, No. 1:19-cv-00977-ADA (W.D. Tex.) — May 2025.
Docket, No. 1:19-cv-00977 (W.D. Tex.) →Method
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.