Lauren advises private fund sponsors across multiple jurisdictions from the inception phase to ongoing management company operations, including fund structuring, fund formation, capital raising, sponsor governance, marketing, ongoing compliance and operational issues, succession planning, equity incentive arrangements and seed investor transactions.

Lauren’s experience relates to various private investment including private equity funds, venture capital funds, hedge funds, co-investment vehicles, separately managed accounts, single asset vehicles, funds-of-one and financial sponsor-management team partnerships. The private funds that Lauren advises pursue a variety of investment strategies including private equity, private credit, venture capital, public equity, public credit, litigation finance, cryptocurrency/digital assets and other specialty assets. Her experience also includes investor representations for large alternative investment managers, institutional investors and sovereign wealth funds.

Prior to joining Akin, Lauren was an associate in the investment management group of another international law firm’s Dallas office.

Lauren received her J.D. from the Southern Methodist University (SMU) Dedman School of Law, graduating summa cum laude. During her time at law school, Lauren worked as the symposium editor of the SMU Law Review.