San Antonio Business Law Attorney
John K. Boyce III is a business law attorney with over 45 years of experience in the formation and maintenance of business entities and has crafted extensive commercial transactions and agreements for companies and family-owned businesses of all sizes and types. He is chairman of the board and general counsel for a family office engaged in oil & gas, alternatives, ranching, and investments and serves on several private equity funds and non-profit boards.
Professional Licenses
- Admitted to the Texas Bar, 1978
- U.S. District Court | Western, Southern, and Northern Districts of Texas
- U.S. Court of Appeals | Fifth Circuit
- Former Registered Investment Advisor | Texas Securities Board (Series 65 license) (Currently Inactive)
- AV Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
Professional Associations
- Past Chair, Alternative Dispute Resolution Section, State Bar of Texas
- Fellow, College of Commercial Arbitrators (Director)
- Member, Association of Attorney Mediators (AIM)
- Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb)
- Chair, Texas Arbitration Council
- Member, State Bar of Texas Minimum Continuing Education Committee, 2016-2025 (Chair 2019-2022)
- Association of Attorney-Mediators (AAM)
- College of the State Bar
- Life Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation
- San Antonio Bar Association
- Texas Monthly "Super Lawyer" (2018-Present)
Alternative Dispute Resolution
- American Arbitration Association (AAA) | Commercial Panel (Large Complex Case and Securities Panels)
- International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR Institute) | Banking, Accounting & Financial Services Panel, Healthcare & Life Sciences Panel, Energy, Oil & Gas Panel, Hedge Fund Panel, Cannabis Panel
- American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA)
- Financial Industry Regulatory Panel (FINRA)
- Adjunct Professor | Strauss School of Dispute Resolution | Pepperdine University School of Law
Education & Honors
University of Texas at Austin
Phi Beta Kappa, Junior Year (1974)
B.A., Economics, with High Honors (1975)
University of Texas at Austin
Juris Doctor (1978)
Case Studies
COUNSEL TO A FAMILY BUSINESS
One of my long-time clients is an old West Texas family with significant holdings in ranching, oil and gas, investments and insurance. While they have been in business more than a century, many of their investments, managed by trusts from the 1940s and 1950s, continue to operate, but now as limited partnerships. Generally, members are limited partners. They are quite intelligent and well-educated....read more.
TRANSFORMING A NON-PROFIT
I was asked to chair the Search Committee for a new executive director of a century-old non-profit organization with a $2.5mm+ operating budget, a sizable staff, a high profile in the community, and significant assets, including a large endowment and a for-profit apartment complex on its grounds. The organization had been racked by terribly bitter...read more.
– John K. Boyce III
John K. Boyce III
Business Law Attorney