She advises developers, funders and occupiers on a range of construction contracts including JCT and FIDIC.
A large part of Lauren’s role is advising clients on the transactional side of built environment development, she has a particular interest in data centres and has advised several data centre clients on their procurement strategy for projects in the UK and in Europe.
Lauren also has development finance experience and regularly acts for funders and borrowers on complex mandates as part of a multi-disciplinary advisory team providing clients with a full service offering.
Having trained with Eversheds Sutherland Lauren spent a period of her career in NSW, Australia, where she worked for a major Australian firm advising the Office of the Building Commissioner assisting with preparing their briefing documents to brief industry in relation to new building safety legislation. Lauren also undertook a secondment with a not-for-profit called Adara who specialise in neonatal health in Uganda and safeguarding women and children in Nepal. During this time she qualified as a lawyer in NSW.
Lauren has acted on a number of major transactions for clients including:
- advising a data centre developer in their development of two sites in Switzerland using a Swiss standard form contract
- advising a private lending syndicate in respect of financing of London-based mixed-use developments worth hundreds of millions of pounds utilising modular construction; and
- advising a luxury retirement village provider in their joint venture to deliver a £125 million development and negotiation of the associated construction documents suite
- LLB (Hons) Law, 2007-2010