Travis Wofford
Partner, Vice Chair Global M&A Practice, Baker Botts LLP, Director, Houston Bar Foundation, NACD Texas TriCities Chapter
Travis Wofford is a member of the Board of Directors of the NACD Texas TriCities Chapter. Since 2023, he has served on the board of Lone Star Legal Aid, the third largest free legal aid provider in the United States with over 250 lawyers serving over 2-million low-income individuals, children, survivors of crime and veterans across Texas and Arkansas, accounting for roughly 10% of all low-income Southerners. From 2020 to 2023, he served as a director of the Houston Bar Foundation, the charitable foundation of the Houston Bar Association. Previously, he was a director and the treasurer of the Houston Lawyer Referral Service from 2014-2020, a nonprofit sponsored by the Houston Bar Association to assist the community of the greater Houston area in access to justice.
Wofford is chair of the Corporate Department in Houston of Baker Botts LLP, deputy chair of the Firm's Mergers & Acquisitions Practice, and a member of the firm's Securities Opinion Committee. Wofford has frequently been recognized for the quality of his legal and strategic advice. The National Association of Corporate Directors named him to "Directorship 100: Governance Professionals and Institutions", of which he was one of only 9 lawyers for that year. For mergers and acquisitions, shareholder engagement and corporate advisory work, he has been recognized in, among others, Lawdragon's "500 Leading Dealmakers in America". He was also named a "Texas Trailblazer" by Texas Lawyer Magazine/Law.com for his creative financing structures.