A partner in the Antitrust Department, Lauren is a sought-after advisor to global businesses on a wide range of complex and high-impact matters related to antitrust, merger control, foreign direct investment, and consumer law.
Lauren leverages her extensive knowledge of current and emerging regulations, established industry practices, and deep knowledge of the regulatory environment to counsel companies on their most complex large-scale transactional projects and merger reviews. Her clients have included global public and private companies in the technology, asset management, life sciences, consumer goods and industrial sectors, among others. Lauren completed a six-month secondment to the mergers team at the Competition and Markets Authority in 2018 and a four-month client secondment in 2021. She is admitted to practice in Brussels and England & Wales. Lauren was recently recognized by Legal 500 UK in the EU and Competition Category (2025 - 2026) where clients note she is “very experienced and effective” and “distinguishes herself in running a multi-country approach for her clients and staffing strong associates to support the centralized model, which significantly streamlines painstaking reviews and efficiently minimizing duplicative cross-border work.”
Highlights of matters on which Lauren has recently acted include advising:
- Acerinox in its $970 million acquisition of Haynes International.
- Alkermes in its $2.37 billion acquisition of Avadel Pharmaceuticals, an Ireland-based pharmaceutical company.
- AlphaSense in its $930 million acquisition of Tegus, a Chicago-based provider of expert research, private company content, financial data and workflow tools.
- An ad hoc group of New Fortress Energy noteholders, a liquefied natural gas company, in connection with two debt and equity transactions totaling $2.7 billion.
- Carrier Global Corporation in the $775 million sale of its global commercial refrigeration business to Haier.
- CompoSecure in its business combination with Husky Technologies, a Canada-based manufacturer of engineered equipment and aftermarket services, for an enterprise value of $7.4 billion.
- Eaton in its $9.5 billion acquisition of the Boyd Thermal business of Boyd Corporation, a California-based manufacturer of advanced engineered materials and thermal management solutions, from Goldman Sachs Asset Management.
- EP Group on its recommended cash offer for International Distribution Services (IDS), the parent company of the UK’s Royal Mail and international parcels network GLS.
- Galapagos, a Belgium-based biotechnology company, in a research and development collaboration with Gilead in connection with Gilead’s $1.675 billion acquisition of Ouro Medicines, a California-based biotechnology company that develops T cell engager therapies for autoimmune diseases.
- General Atlantic and certain of its managed funds, including Atlantic Park, in its recommended offer for Learning Technologies Group plc, a UK-based learning and talent development company.
- HPS Investment Partners, alongside Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and certain of its existing lenders, in a $225 million new money equity capital investment in Vialto, a New York-based provider of global mobility, tax, and immigration solutions.
- Metsera in its sale to Pfizer for $10 billion.
- Outbrain Inc. in its $1 billion acquisition of Teads, a New York-based advertisement technology firm, from Altice S.A.
- Starbucks Corporation in its $4 billion joint venture with Boyu Capital to operate Starbucks retail in China.
- TDR Capital in connection with:
- the purchase of Italy’s leading non-food discount retail brand, Acqua & Sapone, from H.I.G. Capital and the founding Barbarossa family;
- the sale of NKD Group, a Germany-based discount retailer, to Mr Price Group, a South Africa-based retail group for a transaction value of €487 million ($568 million); and
- its £275 million all-cash acquisition of Escode, a UK-based software escrow business, from NCC Group, a UK-based global cybersecurity company.
- Vitruvian Partners in the sale of its majority stake in Accountor Software, a Finland-based provider of mission critical business software, to KKR.
Lauren is also actively involved in the development of junior lawyers, particularly women lawyers. She has also been involved in many pro bono projects, including coordinating reports on women’s incarceration issues for Penal Reform International.
Lauren was awarded the prize for the best masters thesis on economics of competition law at the College of Europe.
