Lauren Brazier

Lauren Brazier is Counsel in Simpson Thacher’s Litigation Department and is based in the London Office. She is qualified in England and Wales, New York and New Zealand. Her practice focuses on complex commercial disputes, including representing clients before arbitral tribunals, the courts of England and Wales and the United States, and working closely with local counsel in foreign jurisdictions throughout the world. She has broad experience managing important litigation for clients in the national courts of other jurisdictions around the world, running strategy and working closely with leading local counsel firms. Lauren also advises clients on all manner of contentious matters that arise in connection with the Firm’s corporate transactional practices. She has advised many leading global companies in connection with a broad range of contentious issues, including those arising adjacent to M&A deals, fund structures and limited partner, co-investor, shareholder and key-person relationships.

Her representative experience includes representing:

• An oil and gas executive in proceedings in the Commercial Court to recover compensation due to him in connection with an offshore drilling joint venture
• A private equity firm in proceedings in the Chancery Court relating to a dispute over the interpretation of a shareholders’ agreement
• MatlinPatterson’s Global Opportunities Fund II in Chapter 11 restructuring proceedings in the Southern District of New York.
• Multiple leading global private equity firms/large corporations in relation to HKIAC arbitrations governed by Hong Kong law and seated in Hong Kong, arising from the sale of businesses in China
• French food group Danone in securing a €105 million UNCITRAL arbitration award under English law, in Singapore, arising out of a mass contamination and product recall spanning eight countries in Asia Pacific
• A European company in successfully enjoining a key departing executive from breaching a shareholder non-compete agreement, under English law, in SCC arbitration seated in Stockholm
• Claimants in two related AAA arbitrations in New York in respect of disputes under a limited partnership agreement governed by Delaware law
• A shareholder in a multi-jurisdictional dispute relating to an oil project, including in an ICC arbitration seated in Paris, governed by English law, and advising on related litigation in Cyprus and the Netherlands
• A European media company in an M&A-related dispute in LCIA arbitration seated in London, governed by English law
• U.S. investment fund MatlinPatterson in resisting enforcement of a Brazilian arbitration award in the Cayman Islands courts, including the Privy Council
• Leading global private equity firms in connection with a broad spectrum of contentious, cross-border issues adjacent to M&A transactions and their limited partner, key-person and senior executive relationships 

Lauren holds an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, which she attended as a Frank Knox Fellow and an LL.B., first class honours, and B.A. from Victoria University of Wellington.