Lauren focuses her practice on real estate matters spanning retail, manufacturing, office, hospitality, industrial, health care, and other commercial industries.
Lauren regularly drafts a variety of transactional documents based on unique circumstances, analyzes title, survey, and zoning matters, and advises clients throughout each stage of their deals.
Lauren has also gained experience in a broad range of business areas, including commercial finance and banking, tax, corporate governance, mergers & acquisitions, and estates and trusts. Additionally, she is experienced in analyzing, interpreting, and advising on complex agency regulations at the federal, state, and local levels. Lauren’s broad exposure to numerous areas of law gives her a useful perspective and enables her to support clients across many types of matters and industries.
Representative Experience
- Represented a prominent international private equity fund that owns and manages life science and technology properties in the sale of a multi-tenant property located in southern California for approximately $10 million.
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Represented one of the largest multifamily developers in the country as the seller in its disposition of an affordable housing property in Michigan, structured as a partnership interest entity sale.
- Represented a large private equity fund in connection with its acquisition of twenty-one retail/industrial properties in a more than $40 million NNN sale-leaseback portfolio transaction.
- Represented a large private equity fund in connection with its acquisition of forty bank branch locations in a more than $55 million NNN sale-leaseback portfolio transaction.
- Represented a large private equity fund in connection with its acquisition of eleven retail locations across two states in a more than $22 million NNN sale-leaseback portfolio transaction.
- Represented a leading international investment and management firm by performing all diligence and related needs for their purchase of loans in default for a total of over $600 million and subsequent foreclosures, involving over 70 properties in California.
- Represented one of the largest multifamily developers in the country as the seller in its disposition of an affordable housing property in Texas, which involved collapsing a ground lease structure to sell fee title to the property, negotiating equity contributions to fund closing contributions by the partnership of the property-owning partnership and the defeasance and later redemption of bond financing.
- Represented a leading international investment and management firm in a transfer of membership interests to transfer 7 underlying real properties, involving a total value of more $51 million.
- Represented one of the largest multifamily developers in the country as the seller in its disposition of five affordable housing properties in Texas totaling over $73,000,000, with three sales structured as partnership interest entity sales and the other two structured as fee simple sales.
- Represented one of the largest multifamily developers in the country as the seller in its disposition of two affordable housing properties in Texas totaling over $50,000,000, with one sale structured as a partnership interest entity sale and the other structured as a fee simple sale.