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DLA Piper LLP (US)
500 EIGHTH STREET, NW
WASHINGTON, DC 20004
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
United States

Work Department

Real Estate

Position

Partner

Career

Lauren Rico represents private equity funds, insurance companies, commercial banks, developers and other institutional investors in a wide variety of commercial real estate transactions.

Lauren’s national real estate practice focuses on acquisitions and dispositions of real estate and interests in real estate; complex single-asset and multi-asset real estate financing transactions and construction loans; the creation of joint ventures for the ownership, development and management of real estate assets; workouts and restructurings; and commercial leasing. She has experience in transactions involving a wide variety of asset classes, including office, multifamily, hotels and resorts, marinas, senior housing/assisted living, manufactured housing, retail and industrial properties.

Education

J.D., Pepperdine University School of Law; B.A., Wake Forest University

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Real estate > Real estate

(Next Generation Partners)

Lauren RicoDLA Piper LLP (US)

The ‘top tier‘ team at DLA Piper LLP (US) impresses with its ‘combination of technical talent, commercial savvy, and efficiency’ and is nationally renowned for its representation of estate investors, asset managers, fund sponsors, lenders, developers and owners. Amy Carbins leads its Washington DC real estate team, which also houses the up-and-coming Lauren Rico, and senior statesman, Frederick Klein , who is the go-to advisor for domestic and offshore investors in projects throughout the US. New York’s Michael Haworth is highly experienced in acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, and financings, often with a cross-border Asian/U.S nexus. ‘Top of the heap‘ practice chair John Sullivan sits in the Boston office alongside co-vice chair, Barbara Trachtenberg and the offices’ managing partner, Bryan Connolly, who concentrates on real estate development. In the same office, Cara Nelson  represents pension funds, investors and institutional funds in acquisitions, sales and financings of all asset types. Chicago’s Bradley Levy acts for many of the firms’ hospitality and healthcare sector clients in their real estate matters.