(The Center Square) – Dell Technologies is the latest company to announce it is redomesticating its legal headquarters to Texas.
On Monday, it announced its Board of Directors unanimously approved changing the jurisdiction of Dell Technologies’ state of incorporation from Delaware to its home state of Texas. The Board of Directors recommended that its stockholders approve its redomestication at its annual stockholder meeting on June 25.
“The proposed redomestication would align Dell Technologies’ state of incorporation with its roots and long-standing center of operations,” Dell Technologies said in a statement. Michael Dell founded the company in Austin, Texas, in 1984.
“From my dorm room at the University of Texas in 1984 to our headquarters today in Round Rock, Texas has given Dell what every great company needs to grow — extraordinary talent, world-class research universities, and a business environment that lets us build for the long term,” Dell Technologies chairman and CEO Michael Dell said in a statement. “Texas is where Dell has innovated, expanded, and invested for more than four decades, and bringing our legal home to Texas reflects what we’ve been building here all along.”
Dell’s global headquarters, Michael Dell, and the largest concentration of its U.S. workforce are all based in Texas, however, it’s been incorporated in Delaware. Its market cap or net worth is more than $137.61 billion. Its enterprise value is $158.26 billion, according to Stock Analysis.
Redomesticating to Texas will not affect business operations, management, strategy, assets or employee locations, the company said.
In response, Gov. Greg Abbott said, “Welcome home, Dell. For over 40 years, Texas has been where Michael Dell built and innovated. Now, Dell Technologies is bringing its legal home to Texas. This is what happens when job creators and innovators are welcomed, not punished. More businesses are sure to follow.”
Dell is the latest company to announce its redomiciling its legal headquarters to Texas.
ExxonMobil Corporation announced its Board of Directors unanimously recommended its shareholders approve changing its legal domicile from New Jersey to Texas in March, The Center Square reported.
The main reason companies are citing is Texas’ new business court and regulatory framework.
The announcement comes after Abbott and the Texas legislature created the Texas Business Court in 2024. Business leaders have said Texas’ new court provides a more consistent legal framework, predictability, efficiency and protections for shareholders, The Center Square reported. Last year, the legislature enacted additional reforms to enhance the court’s operations and scope.
The creation of the court and business friendly legislation was championed by Texans for Lawsuit Reform, which for decades advocated for policy changes that helped catapult Texas to the top of business rankings nationwide. TLR’s former president and General Counsel Lee Parsley said last year that establishing the court in 2024 “was a significant investment in Texas’s economic growth and development, creating an efficient process to help streamline the resolution of lengthy and complicated business cases.”
He said new legislative reforms expanding the court’s functions would also “entice more businesses to relocate and operate in Texas.” His prediction proved correct.
Within one year, five of the business court’s 11 divisions were active, located in Dallas and McKinney, Austin, San Antonio, Fort Worth and Houston. The majority of cases the court heard related to corporate governance for industries in the energy, real estate, technology or financial sectors.
The Delaware Court of Chancery, founded in 1792, was long considered the preeminent forum for corporations to resolve disputes. That’s no longer the case, Coinbase’s chief legal officer, Paul Grewal, among others, have argued.
When Coinbase, the largest U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange, announced it was reincorporating in Texas, Grewal said Delaware “no longer has a monopoly on corporate law.” Texas’ “corporate legal framework offers the right mix of efficiency, predictability, and fairness to be our home for incorporation,” he said, citing Texas’ Business Court. Multiple companies domiciling in Texas, including those on Texas’ new stock exchange, are making the same claims, The Center Square reported.
This comes as no surprise, TLR CEO Ryan Patrick told The Center Square. “Since 2019, more than 250 companies have physically moved their headquarters to Texas because of our business-friendly approach to energy, tech, health care, and more,” he said. “Now, they're legally domiciling here because we have courts that move at the speed of business with business regulations to match. TLR was proud to play its part in creating and strengthening our business courts and will continue its fight to make Texas the best state to do business."
