Dell Technologies has secured overwhelming shareholder support to move its legal headquarters from Delaware to Texas, marking another high-profile corporate shift toward the Lone Star State.
The proposal received 97% shareholder approval, formally relocating the company’s legal home to the state where it was founded more than four decades ago and where its global headquarters remains in Round Rock, near Austin.
Announcing the outcome on LinkedIn, founder and CEO Michael Dell wrote:
“Today, with 97% approval, Dell Technologies shareholders voted to bring our legal home to Texas.
This is home and where we’ve always belonged. Texas gave us the talent, the universities, and the environment to build something that lasts.
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Proud to make it official. Let’s go.”
The decision comes months after Dell’s board of directors unanimously approved the proposal, which was presented to shareholders for a final vote at the company’s annual meeting on June 25.
The recommendation to relocate the company’s legal home was made by a committee of independent, disinterested board members, adding another layer of independent governance review before the proposal went to shareholders.
Dell had first disclosed plans in May to redomicile from Delaware to Texas, reflecting its long-standing ties to the state where the company was established and continues to maintain its global headquarters.
The move also aligns Dell with a growing number of major corporations choosing Texas over Delaware for incorporation. Earlier, Exxon Mobil made a similar switch, citing Texas’ business environment. The change, however, also introduces new restrictions affecting smaller shareholders under Texas corporate law.
Reflecting on the relocation, James H. Lee, chairman, founder and CEO of TXSE Group Inc., the parent company of the Texas Stock Exchange and Oculon Intelligence, shared Michael Dell’s announcement on LinkedIn, underscoring the significance of the company’s decision.
Lee wrote: “Texas’ rise as a technology powerhouse runs through Michael Dell and the company he started in his UT dorm room in 1984. He has given back to the state at the same scale he built in it — most recently becoming the University of Texas’s first billion-dollar benefactor. And now his company’s legal home is in the same state where it all started.”
The CEO of TXSE Group further added, “The result also marks another powerful validation of the economic reforms Governor Greg Abbott and legislative leaders enacted over the past two sessions, which the Texas Stock Exchange | TXSE Group Inc was a lead supporter of. Those laws cemented Texas as the top jurisdiction for business in the U.S., and the faucet they turned on is now wide open. Dell is the second Fortune 50 company to redomicile to Texas in the past month, and behind it stand hundreds more, representing trillions in market capitalization.”
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott had welcomed the move, describing it as another sign of the state’s appeal to businesses and innovators.
In a post on X, Abbott wrote, “Welcome home, @Dell. For over 40 years, Texas has been where @MichaelDell 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.”
The relocation reinforces Texas’ growing reputation as a preferred destination for corporate incorporations, as more companies reassess their legal domicile in favor of states they view as offering a more business-friendly regulatory framework.