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Regina K. Ibarra
Regina K. Ibarra
Counsel — Executive Compensation & Benefits
Counsel — Executive Compensation & Benefits

Regina K. Ibarra

Regina K. Ibarra
Houston

Texas Tower
845 Texas Avenue
Suite 4700
Houston, Texas 77002

Regina K. Ibarra

Experience Highlights

  • 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

Credentials

  • The University of Texas School of Law, J.D., 2001 (Administrative Editor, Texas Law Review)
  • Oklahoma Baptist University, B.S.E., English summa cum laude, 1993 (Omicron Delta Kappa)
  • Law clerk to The Honorable Joseph T. Sneed, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2001–2002
  • Chambers USA, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (Houston), 2024 and 2025
  • The Best Lawyers in America© (BL Rankings, LLC), (Houston): Employment Law–Management, 2023–2025; Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, 2024 and 2025
  • Selected to the Texas Rising Stars list, Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters), 2009
  • Fellow: Texas Bar Foundation
  • Member: Houston Bar Association (Former Member: Lawyers for Literacy Committee)
  • Member: American Bar Association
  • Life Member: Texas Law Review Association (Former Secretary and Executive Director, 2000–2001)
  • Member: Emerging Women Leaders, a program of the Executive Women’s Partnership Committee, Greater Houston Partnership
  • Former Chair: Car Seat Safety Campaign Committee, Houston Young Lawyers Association
  • Texas
  • “Update on Defined Contribution Plans, Legal Developments, Trends, and Issues,” Client Event, February 2005 (co-authored with Brian Bloom)
  • “Health Savings Accounts – A New Benefit Opportunity Under the 2003 Medicare Prescription Drug Act,” Client Event, February 2004
  • “Fiduciary Duties in 401(k) Plans: Aftermath and Concerns About Employer Stock in a Down Market,” Client Event, November 2003 (co-authored with Dorene B. Cohen)
  • “Corporate Changes and the Human Resource Manager: Employee Benefits in Mergers & Acquisitions,” Client Event, February 2003 (co-authored with Dorene B. Cohen)