Pros
I love the people I worked with in the office and had a wonderful team. I work for one of Regent's retail brands. Regent itself has little pros as a company.
Cons
From my own observation, Regent has a system on how they handle the companies they acquire. I am speaking from my own personal experience, having worked for one of their brands twice.
They allow the brands they acquire to operate as usual for a while, then start to do mass lay-offs one group at a time - I assume to avoid having to notify their employees, they don't do them all at once, and they are sudden and unexpected. To my knowledge no notice was given to anyone in the company I worked for prior to lay-offs, and I have witnessed it multiple times over the years.
Even though the "writing was on the wall" prior to my personal lay-off, I operated for months with mass uncertainty and the company pretending that everything was business as usual - it was an extremely toxic environment to work in for more than 6 months, before all lay-offs were done . Eventually Regent stripped down the entire company down to minimal employees and operated with a skeleton crew. It seems their strategy is to operate with the least amount of people possible, with little regard for the company climate, and maintain expectations of profit.
In my own recent situation they acquired additional brands and then began to consolidate functions. I understand that strategy as a business, however the lack of communication and transparency is what made the environment so terribly toxic. They also don't allow for time to transition to the new teams, so both new teams and laid-off employees are left without critical information to keep the business operating smoothly. Also, employees were being told that their roles were critical, and there was no plan to consolidate functions, right before the last round of lay-offs occurred.
It kind of feels like you are put in front of a firing squad when you are let go - with little to no severance at all. I received nothing during my first lay-off (no notice, no severance, no benefits) after 10 years of employment with the brand (and 2 with Regent).
Regent also required some people to sign some NDA legal documents saying they wouldn't sue Regent or speak against them in order to receive their severance (and are not allowed to disclose how much they received - rumor has it that it was very little). That feels like legal blackmail to me (if it is truly legal, as I would argue those people were under duress when they signed the documents) and it certainly doesn't feel honest or decent. Again a sign of how they work and operate as a business.