Our Houston based M&A law firm boasts a team of attorneys skilled at advising entrepreneurs, mid-market companies, family-owned businesses and multinational organizations on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and other corporate transactions in Texas, as well as other jurisdictions in the United States. Our merger and acquisition lawyers handle the full transaction cycle from letter of intent through closing, and specialize in customized and creative legal and business solutions for companies having enterprise values in the range of $5M-$250M.
BoyarMiller’s corporate practice is partner-led: with experienced associate M&A attorneys being directly involved in every transaction, providing the deal judgment that mid-market companies require at every stage. Our team also serves as outside general counsel for growing companies in need of ongoing strategic legal support without the higher cost and overhead of a Big Law firm.
Our Houston based mergers and acquisitions attorneys advise buyers and sellers on mergers and acquisitions across Texas and in other jurisdictions within the United States from first conversation, through signed documents and closing.
Our partner-led firm directly handles asset purchases, stock and other equity acquisitions, mergers, divestitures, and management buyouts for mid-market companies and high net worth entrepreneurs, with deals typically ranging from $5M to $250M.
BoyarMiller’s mergers and acquisition attorneys include partners who work deals directly. We represent both buyers and sellers and have experience across most all industries in Texas and other US jurisdictions, including energy services, technology, professional services, manufacturing, distribution, healthcare and commercial real estate.
BoyarMiller’s Corporate and M&A team provides Houston based corporate finance attorneys to advise Texas businesses and businesses located in other jurisdictions in the United States on corporate finance transactions, including secured and unsecured lending, simple to complex credit facilities including syndications, debt restructuring, refinances and the financing components of acquisitions and divestitures.
Our firm represents borrowers and lenders in transactions where the financing structure can be a critical component of the overall M&A transaction, and most all our attorneys in the Corporate and M&A team have extensive finance experience thereby ensuring that corporate finance and the other M&A transactional legal work are handled by attorneys who understand all aspects of the M&A transaction.
Houston based private securities attorneys at BoyarMiller advise high net worth individuals, private equity funds, venture capital investors, and their portfolio companies on investments, acquisitions, and exits across Texas.
Our firm has represented PE-backed companies as lead M&A counsel on multiple growth-by-acquisition strategies, and has advised both fund sponsors and management teams on the legal structure of PE investments, management equity, and exit transactions.
Our PE-experienced attorneys bring deal judgment to private equity work; they understand the fund-level economics, the management team dynamics, and the timeline pressures that make PE transactions move differently from standard M&A.
Our Corporate and M&A team also specializes in advising startups and growth stage companies in capital raises through the sale of their equity securities. We provide a team of private placement attorneys in Houston to advise Texas companies and entrepreneurs on capital formation and private securities offerings—including Regulation D Rule 506(b) and 506(c) private placements, debt and other types of equity raises, and the formation of investor syndicates.
Our partner-led firm has represented both issuers raising capital and investors participating in private offerings, handling documentation, securities law compliance, and the investor relations structure that accompanies a private capital raise.
Our capital formation work is integrated with BoyarMiller’s corporate and M&A practice, meaning companies raising capital to fund an acquisition or growth strategy get legal counsel that understands both the capital raising and the deal it is designed to support.
Our international business attorneys advise companies and investors on international business transactions from our Houston office, including cross-border acquisitions, foreign entity formation, international joint ventures, and the legal structure of inbound and outbound investment into and out of Texas.
We have represented multinational corporations in Texas transactions and Texas-based companies expanding into international markets, bringing legal counsel that understands both the domestic deal structure and the cross-border complexity that international transactions require.
Our firm’s Corporate and M&A shareholders have served as lead counsel on complex multi-party acquisitions on a national and international level, including transactions with financing structures across multiple jurisdictions.
Our Corporate and M&A team also has a specialty of advising private equity fund and hedge fund sponsors, investment managers, and investors on the formation and structuring of private investment funds in Texas, including private equity funds, hedge funds, family office vehicles, and real estate investment structures.
Our firm handles fund entity formation, limited partnership agreements, operating agreements, investment management agreements, and the legal framework that governs fund-level decision making and investor relations.
BoyarMiller’s fund structuring lawyers have represented financial services providers in hedge fund formation and have experience with the operational and compliance structure that investment funds require from initial formation through active investment activity.
We provide outside general counsel (OGC) services for Texas businesses and businesses located in other U.S. States that need a trusted legal partner across corporate, real estate, and litigation matters, but don’t want the cost of building an internal legal department. As a fractional general counsel law firm based in Houston, our team advises on corporate governance, contract drafting and review, employment matters, real estate transactions, and M&A, acting as an integrated legal advisor rather than a single-matter vendor.
We first learn as much as we can about a client’s business, goals, and challenges so that we can develop customized and creative legal solutions. We have helped clients – from start-ups to private and family-owned companies to established multinational organizations – with our legal and business experience that covers the entire start up to exit business life cycle.
Whether we are advising on business opportunities or conflicts, we apply our knowledge to each situation in both business and litigation issues.
Steve Kesten and Gary Miller have provided our firm with high quality legal and business advice for numerous complex private equity transactions. Their support and hard work has proved invaluable. We also rely on BoyarMiller as legal counsel to our management company. We moved our corporate work to BoyarMiller from a much larger international law firm. We haven’t been disappointed. The firm’s guidance has been timely, well considered and cost effective in all cases.
Bill Boyar and his team took such good care of us in this process. this was not a “transaction” for Bill and his team, rather it was a relationship they continually built with us to advocate our interests through every phase of the process. They simplified seemingly complex details into easily understood context and decision points. I cant speak highly enough of the team. Their reputation is well earned.
Gary Miller took the lead on the transaction documents that were part of a complicated settlement. I can summarize his work in three words: creative, pragmatic, and efficient. Gary’s contribution was invaluable.
Larry Wilson represented my company in an acquisition, on short notice with a short time line and he executed it perfectly. Larry understood our need to preserve certain marketing rights in the contract negotiations and was a quick effective study and helped make our transaction a success. Larry’s experience helped protect our company from many situations we had frankly never considered.
Shareholder, Corporate M&A Group Chair
Founding Shareholder, Corporate M&A and Real Estate Groups
Founding Shareholder, Corporate M&A Group
Shareholder, Corporate M&A Group
Shareholder, Corporate M&A Group
Founding Shareholder, Corporate M&A and Real Estate Groups
Founding Shareholder, Corporate M&A and Real Estate Groups
Large law firms bring institutional depth and brand recognition, but often at a cost most suitable for Fortune 500 companies.
For M&A transactions in the range of $20M to $50M, Big Law rates cause a disproportionate percentage of deal value to go towards legal fees.
Big Law may manage client expectations on mid market M&A transactions by having attorneys with lower rates and less experience managing your deal.
Our corporate M&A attorneys work deals directly, without the overhead of multi-office large-scale legal firms; this means direct partner involvement on deal structure, due diligence gaps, and negotiating positions and drafting.
For mid-market Texas transactions (deals between $5M–$250M), this partner-led model consistently delivers faster timelines, higher level, more practical legal guidance, and total fees proportionate to deal size.
Our partner-led merger and acquisition team is the best fit for mid-market companies seeking senior legal judgment and counsel at every stage of a transaction.
Founded in Houston in 1990, our firm has advised Texas mid-market companies, family owned businesses and entrepreneurs on corporate transactions across a range of industries from energy services and technology, to professional services, manufacturing, healthcare, hospitality and commercial real estate.
BoyarMiller’s corporate M&A and private equity and venture capital law practices have been recognized by Best Lawyers in America across several years, including 2026, in both Best Law Firm and Best Lawyer categories.
We dig deep to truly understand our clients and their ventures. We are devoted to the success of each client, focused wholeheartedly on the accomplishment of their business goals.
Shareholder, Corporate M&A Group Chair
No, and for most mid-market transactions, Big Law is the wrong economic choice. Large law firms charge rates calibrated to Fortune 500 margins and routinely download substantial deal work to associates with lower rates to try to meet cost expectations of middle-market company clients. Mid-market M&A in Texas, with transactions ranging from $5M to $250M, requires senior level legal judgment at every step: structuring, diligence, negotiation, drafting and closing. Our corporate M&A partners handle deals directly, resulting in faster execution, more practical legal and business advice, and total legal fees that are a fraction of Big Law cost for the same transactional complexity.
Outside general counsel (OGC) is a law firm arrangement where a company retains a single firm as its primary legal advisor across multiple practice areas, operating like an in-house general counsel without the overhead cost.
BoyarMiller acts as OGC for growing Texas companies as well as companies across the nation that need strategic legal advice on corporate governance, contracts, employment, real estate, and M&A without the expense of building an internal legal department.
Our OGC model best suits companies with recurring legal needs, that typically generate $10M–$500M in annual revenue, that want one trusted firm with full business context—rather than multiple single-matter vendors.
We advise on asset purchases and sales, stock and other equity acquisitions and divestitures, mergers, joint ventures, recapitalizations, and management buyouts for Texas mid-market companies. Our firm represents both buyers and sellers and handles transactions across industries, with particular experience in energy services, technology, manufacturing, healthcare, hospitality, professional services, and commercial real estate. We manage the full transaction process, from letter of intent through due diligence, purchase agreement negotiation and drafting, and closing.
No. Big Law is built for institutional transactions, Fortune 500 mergers, cross-border regulatory filings, and deals where the legal process requires simultaneous teams across multiple jurisdictions. For mid-market M&A in Texas (deals in the $5M to $250M range) the complexity is real, but the institutional machinery is not.
What mid-market transactions require is senior level legal judgment on deal structure, diligence, drafting and negotiation, not the associate-staffed volume leverage model Big Law is built around. Our partners work M&A transactions directly, delivering the legal depth, skill and knowledge mid-market deals require without the cost premium of a firm scaled for larger clients.
A founder selling their company for the first time should use a firm whose partners have advised on many similar transactions, not a firm where the work is handled by associates supervised by a partner who simply reviews at the end.
The stakes in a first sale are high: deal structure, tax considerations, earnout provisions, representations and warranties, and post-closing indemnification obligations all have long-term consequences that require experienced judgment—not process management. Our firm represents founders and entrepreneurs in Texas business sales via direct partner involvement, from letter of intent through closing. This allows for ultra experienced attorneys making decisions about your deal who understand the M&A market and legal nuances that can materially impact your transaction.
Fee control in M&A comes from two things: scope clarity at the outset and attorney-level efficiency during execution. Large firms generate fee overruns because associate-staffed deal rooms create unpredictable billable hours; work expands to fill the team available.
Mid-market firms like BoyarMiller operate differently: our partners own the deal directly, which means fewer attorneys involved, tighter scope control, and a direct relationship between the complexity of the transaction and the cost of the legal work.
Our partners scope M&A engagements at the outset and provide fee estimates aligned to the deal’s actual complexity; not estimates calibrated to the billing rates of a larger team.
Yes, and for most growing Texas businesses, using a single firm across corporate and real estate matters is the more effective model. M&A transactions frequently intersect with real estate: commercial property acquisitions, sale-leaseback structures, and development assets are common deal components that require both corporate and real estate experience in the same room.
When those practices are siloed across different firms, deals slow down, information falls between the cracks, and clients are forced to manage the coordination.
Our firm’s partner-led corporate and real estate practices work together on transactions where both disciplines are needed. The same firm handles both corporate structure and real estate components, allowing for one point of contact, consistent advice, and no coordination overhead necessary for the client.
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