Banking & Finance in Dallas: lateral monitor

Sartori & Partners data show 45 lateral moves in Banking & Finance in Dallas from November 2025 to October 2026, 2.3% of the practice's moves. Year on year the count held level (51 to 49 on settled windows, -3.9%). That trails the wider market, which moved +9.0%.

Over the three years to October 2026, 145 lawyers moved in Banking & Finance in Dallas, 50 of them partners (34.5%). They joined 51 different firms. 10.3% stepped up a level on the move and 13.7% changed city, against 12.3% and 21.6% across the market over the same three years. 54.5% came from firms with 1,000+ lawyers.

With partners at 31.1% of arrivals, the mix is in line with the market's 27.7%.

The 12-month firm table is below our naming threshold, so this part reads the three years to October 2026. Lateral hires in Banking & Finance in Dallas were spread across 51 firms. The ten firms at the head of the hiring table took 42.8% of arrivals (12.2% market-wide), so hiring here is concentrated. First on the hiring table is Paul Hastings, with arrivals in the 6-10 band.

The practice accounts for 13.0% of all lateral moves in Dallas. Over the three years to October 2026, 73.8% of movers came from another firm in Dallas itself.

With volume in Banking & Finance in Dallas holding level, a hire depends on a specific reason to move, which a firm has to put in front of the candidate.

Sartori & Partners data count 72 dated deals in Banking & Finance in Dallas in the 12 months to October 2026 and 211 over the three years to October 2026.

Banking & lending work is involved in 43.6% of them and Leveraged & acquisition finance in 23.7%.

By client industry, Oil & Gas comes first with 10.9%.

Kirkland & Ellis ranks first among advising firms over the period, in the 41-60 band.

Over the three years to October 2026, Corporate Lending was involved in 27.6% of moves in Banking & Finance in Dallas, then Acquisition & Leveraged Finance with 22.1%.