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 Four Corners Property Trust, Inc. in its $1.5 million acquisition of an Outback Steakhouse property in Lawton, Oklahoma.
- Represented a large West Coast REIT in the $240.5 million acquisition of two multi-family properties in California, which included extensive environmental review and analysis.
- Represented Blackstone in connection with its acquisition of a portfolio of 228 mortgage loans from Atlantic Union Bank for approximately $2 billion.
- Represented a large manufacturing firm on the sale and leaseback of the industrial property out of which they operate in central Ohio for over $22.2 million.
- Represented a leader in the veterinary industry in its acquisition and lease-back of property located in Bloomfield Hills, MI for about $1.5 million.
- Represented Custom Glass Solutions LLC, a glass manufacturing firm and portfolio company of Stellex Capital Management, on the sale and leaseback of a property out of which they operate in Upper Sandusky, Ohio for over $22 million. The deal was structured as a sign-and-close sale leaseback with significant financing issues to release the existing mortgage prior to closing.
- Represented Brookfield Asset Management in connection with the real estate and loan-related matters of its acquisition of a portfolio of 43 mortgage loans from Valley National Bank for over $920 million.
- Represented a large private equity firm in the buyout of its membership interests in a joint venture owning a hotel located in Illinois.
- 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.