Lauren brings to Carr McClellan over 25 years of transactional practice dedicated to real estate development and project finance in the San Francisco Bay Area. Lauren represents owners, developers, builders and investors in a broad range of transactions and matters including all aspects of the purchase and sale of improved and unimproved real property; the formation and structuring of joint venture relationships; commercial secured lending, including construction loans; public/private partnerships; office, industrial, R&D and retail leasing; and purchase and sale, warranty and insurance programs (e.g. “wrap-ups”) in connection with the sale of single-family and condominium communities.
Lauren has served as general counsel for a prominent Peninsula –based multi-family developer, the Northern California division of a publicly-traded homebuilder and a real estate investor/pension fund advisor These roles, combined with her years of large law firm practice, influence Lauren’s disciplined, yet business-minded and practical approach to solving problems.
Key Areas
- High volume land acquisition and disposition
- Project finance
- Joint ventures
- Construction
- Commercial leasing
- Risk mitigation
- Dispute resolution
- Government compliance