Dario Mendoza
Trammell Crow Center
2001 Ross Avenue
Suite 3900
Dallas, Texas 75201
Dario advises public and private companies, real estate investment trusts (REITs), private equity firms, portfolio companies, boards of directors, compensation committees, management teams and individual executives on a wide range of compensation and benefits matters, including applicable tax, securities law, corporate governance and disclosure implications associated with such matters.
Dario’s practice involves compensation and benefits issues that arise in mergers, acquisitions, sales, joint ventures, initial public offerings, private offerings, reorganizations, restructurings, Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) and de-SPAC transactions and a wide range of other transactions, domestic and international.
Dario advises clients on designing, drafting, negotiating, implementing, and administering a broad variety of compensation and benefits arrangements, including but not limited to equity-based and cash-based incentive arrangements, employment agreements, severance agreements, change in control arrangements, retention arrangements and other deferred compensation arrangements. Dario also advises clients on ESG matters (including linking compensation to ESG performance).
Dario has been recognized by Chambers USA (2021–2024 editions) where one client notes he “is responsive, efficient and highly technical yet easy to communicate with and a pleasure to work with”. Dario is also recognized in Legal 500 (2021–2024 editions) and The Best Lawyers in America© (2023 and 2024 editions).
Experience Highlights
Brigham Minerals in its $4.8 billion business combination with Sitio Royalties
CENAQ Energy Corp., a SPAC, in a business combination with Bluescape Clean Fuels, a private company specializing in the supply of gasoline derived from renewable feedstocks
ProFrac Holding Corp. in its $288 million initial public offering of common stock
Blackstone Energy Partners in its majority investment in Geosyntec Consultants, a leading environmental engineering and design consulting firm
Oasis Petroleum Inc. in a $6 billion merger of equals with Whiting Petroleum Corporation creating Chord Energy in 2022
MoneyGram International, Inc. in its $1.8 billion acquisition by Madison Dearborn Partners
Desert Peak Minerals in an agreement to combine with Falcon Minerals Corporation in a $1.9 billion transaction
Goodrich Petroleum Corporation in its $480 million sale to Paloma Partners, an EnCap affiliate, in an all cash tender offer
Oasis Petroleum and its affiliate companies in the $1.8 billion merger of Oasis Midstream Partners LP with Crestwood Equity Partners LP
BCP Raptor Holdco in its $9 billion business combination between BCP Raptor, a Blackstone and I Squared Capital portfolio company, and Altus Midstream to form Kinetik Holdings
TradeZero Holding Corp. in its $556 million business combination with Dune Acquisition Corporation, a SPAC
Moda Midstream, an EnCap Flatrock Midstream portfolio company, in the sale by Moda of the Moda Ingleside Energy Center, the largest crude export terminal in the U.S., and certain other assets to Enbridge for approximately $3 billion
WPT Industrial Real Estate Investment Trust in its $3.1 billion sale to Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, Inc.
Plains All American in the formation of Plains Oryx Permian Basin LLC, a strategic joint venture with Oryx Midstream, a Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners portfolio company, combining substantially all of Oryx’s assets with the majority of Plains’ assets located within the Permian Basin
Lonestar Resources in its $370 million sale to Penn Virginia Corporation
Hygo Energy Transition in its $5 billion merger with New Fortress Energy
Plains All American Pipeline in the sale of three interconnected crude oil terminals and associated pipeline infrastructure in Los Angeles to Zenith Energy U.S.
Noble Energy in its $13 billion sale to Chevron
Jagged Peak Energy in its $2.27 billion merger with Parsley Energy
Roan Resources in its $1 billion sale to Citizen Energy Operating, LLC, an affiliate of Warburg Pincus
RSP Permian in its $9.5 billion sale to Concho Resources, creating the largest unconventional shale producer in the Permian Basin
CYS Investments, an agency mortgage REIT, in its merger with Two Harbors Investment Corp., a leading hybrid mortgage REIT
Select Energy Services, an affiliate of Crestview Partners, in its $1.3 billion merger with Rockwater Energy Solutions
Rockpile Energy Holdings, a portfolio company of White Deer Energy, in the $284.5 million sale of RockPile Energy Services to Keane Group
AltaGas in the $6.4 billion acquisition of WGL Holdings, owner of a regulated natural gas utility, a midstream franchise and non-regulated contracted power and energy marketing businesses
Sunoco Logistics Partners LP in its $20 billion merger with Energy Transfer Partners in a unit-for-unit transaction
Brigham Resources in the $2.55 billion cash and stock sale of all of its leasehold interests and related assets to Diamondback Energy
C&J Energy Services in its $2.86 billion merger with Nabors’ completion and production business to create a leading diversified completion and production services provider
Eagle Rock Energy Partners in its $614 million merger with Vanguard Natural Resources
Eagle Rock Energy Partners in the $1.325 billion contribution of its midstream business to Regency Energy Partners
Brigham Minerals, Inc. in its $261 million initial public offering of Class A common stock
Focus Financial Partners Inc. in its $615 million initial public offering of common stock
Quintana Energy Services Inc. in its $96 million initial public offering of common stock
Ranger Energy Services, Inc. in its $85 million initial public offering of common stock
Solaris Oilfield Infrastructure, Inc. in its $121 million initial public offering of common stock
Select Energy Services, Inc. in its $122 million initial public offering of common stock
WildHorse Resource Development Corporation in its $447 million initial public offering of common stock
Global Medical REIT Inc. in its $150 million initial public offering of common stock and all of its subsequent capital markets transactions including five follow-on underwritten public offerings with an approximate transactional value of $343 million; ATM offerings; and its $77 million public offering of Series A cumulative redeemable preferred stock
ARC Logistics Partners LP, an MLP with crude oil and refined products terminalling assets, in its $129 million initial public offering of common units
Hi-Crush Partners LP in its $220 million initial public offering of common units
KKR in the $5.7 billion merger between Independence Energy and Contango to form Crescent Energy Company
Hartree Partners in its acquisition of a controlling interest in Sprague Resources from Axel Johnson and subsequent take-private of Sprague
Riverstone Holdings in the $3.75 billion acquisition by its portfolio company, Fieldwood Energy LLC, of Apache Corp.’s assets in the Outer Continental Shelf of the Gulf of Mexico
TPG Capital in connection with all aspects of executive compensation in the $979 million acquisition of Ashland Inc.’s global chemical distribution business
The Carlyle Group in a joint venture with Sunoco to own and operate a Philadelphia refinery, the oldest continuously operating refinery on the U.S. east coast
AMP Capital Investors (US) Limited in the out-of-court financial restructuring of Ocean Point Terminals (fka Limetree Bay Terminals) and certain affiliates under which AMP Capital will provide up to $100 million in new capital to Ocean Point Terminals
Unit Corporation, a diversified, publicly-traded energy company engaged in oil and natural gas exploration and production, contract drilling, and midstream services, and its affiliates in connection with its prearranged chapter 11 cases deleveraging the company by approximately $650 million in a debt-for-equity transaction with its subordinated noteholders
Credentials
- Stanford Law School, J.D., 2010
- The University of Texas at Austin, B.A., Government and Psychology (double major) with high honors, 2006
- Chambers USA, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (Dallas/Ft. Worth), 2021–2024; “Up and Coming” in Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (Dallas/Ft. Worth), 2021 and 2022
- Legal 500 U.S., Labor & Employment: Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation & Retirement Plans: Transactional, 2021–2024
- The Best Lawyers in America© (BL Rankings, LLC), Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law (Dallas), 2023-2025
- Committee Member, 2022-2024: Dallas Bar Association, Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Section
- Member: American Bar Association, Dallas Bar Association, Dallas Association of Young Lawyers, Dallas Hispanic Bar Association
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- “ESG-Related Trends in Executive Compensation,” V&E Energy Series CLE, July 13, 2022 (co-speaker)
- “Executive Compensation – Securities Law Updates,” Dallas Bar Association – Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Law Section CLE, April 6, 2022 (co-speaker)
- “Navigating the 2022 Annual Meeting and Reporting Season,” V&E Navigating Series CLE, January 12, 2022 (co-speaker)
- “Compensation Considerations for Traditional IPOs & SPAC Acquisitions,” Dallas Bar Association Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Law Section Meeting, June 2, 2021 (co-presenter)
- “SouthWest Benefits Association: 30th Annual Benefits Compliance Conference,” Omni Park West Hotel, October 24, 2019 (speaker)
- NACD Texas TriCities Chapter: Today’s Priorities in Executive Compensation,” Houston, Texas, October 10, 2019 (speaker)
- “Society for Corporate Governance: Houston Chapter One-day Conference,” The Houstonian Hotel, January 11, 2017 (speaker)
- “North Texas Compensation Association: Forum on Risk Assessment and Mitigating Practices,” Dallas, Texas, September 15, 2016 (speaker)