Christopher Babcock is a partner in Foley & Lardner’s Dallas office with a practice focused on corporate governance, public and private mergers and acquisitions, and securities matters.  He is co-chair of the firm’s Texas Corporate Governance Team.

Christopher is a highly recognized thought leader on Texas law, representing public companies, special committees, privately held companies, private equity funds and nonprofits in corporate governance, reincorporations, disclosure requirements and shareholder campaigns, activist defense, mergers and acquisitions, tender offers, portfolio company management, and a broad range of related matters. He excels at complicated transactions, helping clients to think creatively and working with them to navigate their most significant challenges and other transformational matters.

Christopher serves as the President of the Alliance for Corporate Excellence, a non-profit advocating for laws that ensure corporations are governed by their shareholders and their duly elected boards, and not by nominal stakeholders and was closely involved in drafting and the passage of Texas Senate Bill 29 by the Texas legislature in 2025, including through public testimony in support of the bill.  As a result of this work, Christopher and his co-chair of the Texas Corporate Governance Team, Chris Converse, are considered the leading counselors to Fortune 500 companies when considering incorporating in Texas or otherwise advising on Texas law, and Christopher and his team have unique experience counseling public and private companies in the intricacies of Texas corporate law and its application to public and private companies and their boards and shareholders. Christopher is a leading speaker on Texas law issues and choice of incorporation.

Christopher has co-authored numerous articles relevant to mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance matters published by the Delaware Business Court Insider, the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, Law360, and others, and serves as the outside editor for Thompson Reuters O’Connor’s book on the Texas Business Organizations Code. He has been invited to speak at numerous events, including meetings of the Technology Special Interest group of Financial Executives International, the Dallas Bar M&A Section, and the Choice, Governance & Acquisition of Entities conference.

Prior to law school, Christopher served as an instructor-qualified airborne intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force, earning the rank of captain.  He serves as the President of the Alliance for Corporate Excellence, a non-profit advocating for laws that ensure corporations are governed by their shareholders and their duly elected boards, and not by nominal stakeholders.