Dallas

Weil’s Dallas office delivers Wall Street–caliber legal services to clients across Texas, the country, and internationally with core strengths in private equity, M&A, banking & finance, tax, and intellectual property. The office also serves as a strategic gateway to Weil’s global platform, providing seamless access to the Firm’s worldwide capabilities.

Our Dallas transactional team is consistently ranked among the leading practitioners globally, advising major public companies, regional and national private equity sponsors, and their portfolio companies on some of the most significant and complex transactions in the market. Our finance and tax lawyers work closely with these teams to provide integrated, efficient deal execution across jurisdictions.

• Dallas office Managing Partner Vynessa Nemunaitis was recognized as one of D CEO's Most Powerful Business Leaders for 2026. She was also named a 2023 40 Under 40 honoree by The Dallas Business Journal, and as one of D Magazine’s 2023 Best Lawyers Under 40.

• IP, Technology & Science Litigation Co-Head Jeff Homrig was named a Patent Star in the 2025 edition of Managing Intellectual Property’s IP Stars. He was also recognized in Lawdragon’s 2026 Leading Lawyers in America list, and in its 2026 Leading Litigators in America list.

• Private Equity partner Richard Frye was named to D Magazine’s 2025 Best Lawyers in Dallas list.

• Private Equity partner David Gail was named Best Lawyer for Private Equity by D Magazine in 2023, for the third year in a row.

• Banking & Finance partner Brendan Conley was named one of Dallas Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 honorees for 2026.

• Mergers & Acquisitions partner Claudia Lai was named an On the Rise attorney by Texas Lawyer as part of the publication’s 2025 Texas Legal Awards. She was also named a 2025 Emerging Leader by The M&A Advisor.

• Mergers & Acquisitions partner James Griffin was named to Lawdragon’s 2024 Leading Dealmakers in America guide.

• A Weil-led transaction was named M&A Deal of the Year, $250-$999 million category at the 2023 Mergers & Acquisitions Awards, presented by D CEO and the Association for Corporate Growth’s Dallas-Fort Worth chapter.

• Retired partner Glenn D. West was named a Best Lawyer for Corporate Law: Private Equity by D Magazine in 2022.

• Weil shortlisted for Dallas & Houston Tax Firm of the Year by International Tax Review at the publication’s Americas Tax Awards in 2025, and previously earned the recognition in 2023.

• The Dallas office was recognized as #1 for summer associate satisfaction in The American Lawyer’s 2023 Summer Associates Survey.

• Weil was named among the Best Law Firms to Work for in Texas on the Vault Law 100 2024 ranking.

Weil is widely considered a leader in pro bono service to the Dallas community, Texas and beyond. Through its innovative Lend-A-Lawyer program, created in 2005 in partnership with the Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program (DVAP), Weil regularly sends a third- or fourth-year associate to work full-time for a two-month period on pro bono matters for indigent clients at the offices of Legal Aid of NorthWest Texas.

The Dallas office has repeatedly won DVAP Gold and Silver Awards recognizing pro bono excellence and the W. Frank Newton Award, the State Bar of Texas’ top law firm pro bono honor. In addition, individual Weil attorneys have several times earned the State Bar’s Frank J. Scurlock Award for Pro Bono Service and DVAP’s Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year Award. The office won the prestigious 2022 Angel of Freedom Award from the Human Rights Initiative of North Texas (HRI), which provides legal and critical services for immigrant survivors of human rights abuses from all over the world.