Irina V. Maistrenko
Senior Counsel
Areas of Focus
- Capital Markets
- Corporate & Finance
- Corporate Governance
- Energy & Infrastructure
- Climate Change
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Handles sophisticated capital markets transactions, structuring and facilitating public and private equity and debt offerings and other securities transactions, as well as representing clients in public/private mergers.
- Has extensive experience in the energy sector, taking public and providing ongoing representation to companies focused on exploration and production, midstream operations, mineral and royalty interest ownership, and oilfield and infrastructure services.
- Advises public companies in connection with ongoing Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reporting obligations, compliance with stock exchange rules and regulations, proxy solicitations and a broad range of corporate governance and climate change matters.
Irina’s practice focuses on complex capital markets, corporate finance and securities, business combinations and other strategic transactions and general public company representation in the energy sector and other industries.
Irina has handled public debt and equity offerings, representing both issuers and underwriters; private placements of debt and equity securities; venture capital transactions; and mergers and acquisitions. In addition to her transactional practice, she has an extensive experience advising public companies, their boards of directors and board committees on strategic and corporate governance matters, compliance with stock exchange rules and securities laws, executive compensation disclosure and climate change and other environmental and social responsibility matters.
Irina’s clients include public and private companies in the energy sector focused on exploration and production, midstream operations, mineral and royalty interest ownership, and oilfield and infrastructure services, as well as companies in the financial services, mining, technology and other industries. She also represented clients in cross-border transactions involving companies in emerging markets, Europe and Latin America.
Prior to attending law school, Irina was a reporter and news anchor at the KRIM television station in Simferopol, Ukraine, and an associate producer at KCBD-TV in Lubbock, Texas.
- Represented Diamondback Energy, Inc. in its $2.2 billion, all-stock acquisition of QEP Resources, Inc. and its acquisition of all leasehold interests and related assets of Guidon Operating LLC in exchange for 10.63 million shares of Diamondback common stock and $375 million of cash.
- Represented Diamondback Energy, Inc. in its $2.2 billion investment grade bond offering and tender offers for up to $2.4 billion of outstanding senior notes.
- Represented Viper Energy Partners LP in its acquisition of certain mineral and royalty interests from Swallowtail Royalties LLC and Swallowtail Royalties II LLC in exchange for 15.25 million common units and $225 million of cash.
- Represented Diamondback Energy, Inc. in its acquisition of all of the then-outstanding publicly held common units of Rattler Midstream LP in a buy-in transaction and a series of investment grade bond offerings aggregating $1.75 billion to repay all of the then-outstanding Rattler Midstream LP bonds and fund a portion of cash consideration for certain acquisitions of leasehold and other related assets from third-party sellers.
- Represented Rattler Midstream LP in a $500 million Rule 144A bond offering.
LanguagesRussian
Ukrainian
Russian
Ukrainian
EducationJ.D., Southern Methodist University School of Law, cum laude, 2000
M.A., Texas Tech University, 1997
B.A., Tavrical National (Simferopol State) University, with honors, 1993
J.D., Southern Methodist University School of Law, cum laude, 2000
M.A., Texas Tech University, 1997
B.A., Tavrical National (Simferopol State) University, with honors, 1993
Bar AdmissionsTexas
Texas
- IFLR1000, US, Notable Practitioner in Capital Markets, 2019.
