Dario Mendoza

Practice Areas

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.

Personal

Stanford Law School, J.D., 2010

The University of Texas at Austin, B.A., Government and Psychology with high honors, 2006

Professional Memberships

State Bar of Texas

Vice Chair, Dallas Bar Association, Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Section

Member, American Bar Association

Member, Dallas Hispanic Bar Association

Publications

"Insights from the SEC Roundtable on Executive Compensation Disclosure Requirements," published by Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, July 2025 (co-author) - https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2025/07/26/insights-from-the-sec-roundtable-on-executive-compensation-disclosure-requirements/