Refining the Case for Houston as a Seat for International Arbitration: Where the City Stands and What Comes Next

For the past several years, businesses have been voting with their feet. Corporate headquarters have relocated to Texas. Companies have reincorporated here. Multinational firms have opened Houston offices. The Texas Stock Exchange is open for business. The Texas Legislature has created a specialized Business Court and a new appellate court to serve its users, and modernizing the state’s business laws is a standing priority. In C-suites and boardrooms far from Texas, deals have been sealed. The business world acknowledges that Texas takes commerce seriously.

Yet many of the same companies that have selected Texas as their home base, along with many others now weighing whether to move their corporate charters here from Delaware, habitually recycle arbitration clauses that cause their cross-border disputes to be seated elsewhere.

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