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Executive Compensation & Benefits
Regina’s practice focuses on a wide range of executive compensation and employee benefits matters, including applicable tax, securities law, corporate governance and disclosure implications associated with such matters.
She has experience in all aspects of the design, drafting, implementation, and ongoing administration of qualified and non-qualified plans and arrangements, including defined benefit plans, 401(k) and profit-sharing plans, equity-based compensation vehicles, deferred compensation arrangements, change-in-control and severance arrangements, employment agreements, and welfare and fringe benefit programs. Her practice also involves fiduciary liability under ERISA, including litigation involving various employee benefit issues, as well as representing companies before the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Labor, including for voluntary corrections, resolution of tax qualification issues, and resolution of employment tax controversies.
A significant portion of her practice also involves the design of executive compensation arrangements, including employment, severance, and change in control agreements; incentive arrangements; deferred compensation plans; and equity-based compensation awards and arrangements. She also advises clients in advanced tax matters associated with executive compensation arrangements, such as transactions involving golden parachute payments, Section 409A deferred compensation compliance, and matters involving Section 83 transfers of property.
Regina has extensive experience with executive compensation and benefits issues related to mergers and acquisitions, restructurings and finance transactions, initial public offerings, securities offerings, and international transactions, including advising acquirers regarding post-transaction integration matters. She also regularly assists clients with respect to securities law disclosure and shareholder approval issues involving compensatory arrangements for executive officers and directors, as well as corporate governance issues related to executive compensation.
Regina is recognized by Chambers USA 2026, where one client notes “Regina is very experienced. She has good combination of technical expertise and commercial savviness.”
Focus Financial Partners, a leading partnership of independent, fiduciary wealth management firms, in its $7 billion acquisition by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice
Preferred Apartment Communities, a REIT owner and operator of Class A multifamily properties and grocery-anchored retail assets, in its $5.8 billion acquisition by Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, Inc.
Earthstone Energy, a growth-oriented, independent energy company, in the $4.5 billion sale of the company to Permian Resources Corporation
Grayson Mill Holdings II, LLC and Grayson Mill Holdings III, LLC in the $5 billion sale to Devon Energy
Prairie Operating Co. in its sale to Creek Road Miners, a cryptocurrency mining company that leverages mobile power generation units and mining facilities
Energy Transfer Partners in the $60 billion merger with Energy Transfer Equity in a unit-for-unit exchange
Maxar Technologies in its $3.6 billion merger with DigitalGlobe, creating a leading provider of satellites, earth imagery, geospatial data solutions and analytics
Nexeo Solutions, a chemicals and plastics distributor and TPG Capital portfolio company, in its $1.575 billion merger with WL Ross Holdings Corp.
Rice Energy Inc. in its $1.1 billion initial public offering of common stock
Continental Airlines in its $3.2 billion all-stock merger with United Airlines
Various clients in day to day securities work and SEC filings with respect to executive compensation matters and employee benefits
Frank’s International in its merger with Expro Group
The Sinclair Companies in the combination of Sinclair Oil’s refining, renewable diesel and logistics assets with those of HollyFrontier Corporation and Holly Energy Partners, L.P.
Endeavor Energy Resources in its $26 billion merger with Diamondback Energy
Rockcliff Energy II, a portfolio company of Quantum Energy Partners, in its $2.7 billion sale to TG Natural Resources
Tug Hill and XcL Midstream in the $5.2 billion sale of Tug Hill’s upstream and XcL Midstream’s gathering and processing assets to EQT Corporation
Comscore, a trusted partner for planning, transacting and evaluating media across platforms, in its recapitalization involving investments from Charter Communications Holding Company, Qurate Retail and an affiliate of Cerberus Capital Management
Group 1 Automotive in its acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Prime Automotive Group
Sunoco in the $1 billion sale of 204 convenience stores to 7-Eleven
A US private equity sponsor on its €3.17 billion carve-out acquisition of a global construction chemicals business from a German public company
Targa Resources Corp. in its $6.7 billion acquisition of Targa Resources Partners in an all stock-for-unit transaction
Focus Financial Partners Inc. in its $615 million initial public offering of common stock utilizing an Up-C structure
TPG RE Finance Trust, Inc. in its $233 million initial public offering and multiple follow-on offerings
Extraction Oil & Gas, Inc. in its $728 million initial public offering of common stock
Targa Resources Corp. in its $360 million initial public offering of common stock
Frank’s International N.V. in its $759 million initial public offering of common stock
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Our panelists will discuss recent SEC developments that shape—and the practical considerations that inform—the preparation of public companies’ annual reports and annual shareholder meetings.
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September 23, 2026
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Vinson & Elkins advised Blackbeard Holdings, LLC (“Blackbeard”), a portfolio company of NGP Energy Capital Management, in its entry into …
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