The Reincorporation Tracker: where public companies are moving their legal homes. Since Tornetta v. Musk (Del. Ch. 2024; reversed in part, Del. Dec. 2025) and the 2025 Texas corporate-law reforms (SB 29 and SB 1057), a growing set of public companies has asked shareholders — or controlling holders — to approve moves out of Delaware and into Texas, Nevada, and selected comparator jurisdictions. This tracker follows each transaction from first SEC disclosure through vote outcome and legal effectiveness — with source-linked filings on every row. Built by the SMU Corporate Governance Initiative.
Scope: the core sample is Delaware-outbound moves to Texas or Nevada. The tracker also labels selected non-Delaware outbound moves to Texas or Nevada (e.g., NY→TX, MT→TX, MI→NV) and comparator rows separately. Completed means a legal effective date is identified from a primary filing or charter document; holder-approved means shareholders or written-consent holders approved the proposal; rejected means holders did not approve.
Scope note. "Firms tracked" counts the full —-firm DE→TX/NV migrator panel — the canonical research cohort. The underlying data.json contains — firm records (— migrators + — TX-incumbent reference stubs + — LUV §21.552-adopter comparator used as the within-state control panel for the §21.552 adopter analysis). The TX-incumbent universe KPI counts the reference panel only. Sub-cohort splits (public-cohort —, multi-spec-ready —, outcome-day-ready —, etc.) are documented on the cohort event-study page.
Each firm subsite carries the canonical 8-page treatment — coalition arithmetic, event-study evidence, statutory analysis, methodology, robustness extensions, adversarial stress tests, and an open replication kit. Same visual system, same audit rigor as the ExxonMobil publication. Event-study numerics carry [DATA PENDING] placeholders pending per-firm runs. See BUILD_MANUAL.md §§21-31 for the build spec.
PUBLICATION_ROSTER.md · generator: tools/build_firm_subsite.py| Announcement Date | Meeting / Vote Date | Vote Result | Company | Move | Market Cap | Industry | Status | Detail | Links |
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dashboard_cohort_flag=1 in 01_Master_DB. Bucket classifications, panel eligibility, audit status, effective dates, and primary-source links all flow from the database.
How we classify each row, the bucket taxonomy (B / C / D / Y), the source-confidence tiers, and the public-Tracker-vs-research-Panels distinction.
62 primary-source references across 6 categories: foundational asset-pricing methods (Sharpe / FFJR / Brown-Warner / Patell / Fama-French / Carhart / Abadie), Delaware corporate-law scholarship (Daines / Subramanian / Bebchuk), Texas reform (SB 29, SB 1057, TBOC, practitioner memos), court opinions (Tornetta, Match Group, Maffei v. Palkon), federal securities law, and open data sources.
For the underlying database (Excel), the change log, or a CSL-JSON / Zotero export, contact sgoodwin@smu.edu.
v6-rev66) via the data-export pipeline. Cohort = firms with dashboard_cohort_flag=1 in 01_Master_DB. Bucket classifications, panel eligibility, audit status, effective dates, and primary-source links all flow from the database. See methodology.