Lauren King co-leads the Fund Transactions practice at Simpson Thacher. She has extensive experience advising prominent sponsors on cutting-edge transactions designed to provide liquidity to both GPs and investors. She advises on the full range of secondaries transactions, including traditional and synthetic secondaries acquisitions and dispositions, and GP-led restructurings.
Lauren also counsels sponsors on the organization, structuring and operation of secondaries funds, as well as minority stakes deals. She has wide-ranging experience advising on the development and fundraising of vehicles across numerous strategies, and in connection with fund governance matters, upper-tier structuring and succession planning, marketing and limited-partner transfers.
Lauren has represented a diverse group of asset managers and secondary investors, including, among others, Neuberger Berman, Pantheon Ventures, Portfolio Advisors, Blackstone Strategic Partners, HarbourVest, Serena Ventures, Angelo Gordon, Frontier Growth Partners, Evercore, Goldman Sachs, Leonard Green, Tiger Infrastructure Partners, WeWork Capital Advisors, VCFA Group, GE Asset Management (now State Street Global Advisors), LCN Capital Partners, Hamilton Lane, Graham Partners, Coller Capital and FirstMark Ventures.
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Education
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New York University School of Law, 2005 J.D.
Founding member and notes editor for the Journal of Law and Business
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Gettysburg College, 2002 B.A.
summa cum laude
Lauren King co-leads the Fund Transactions practice at Simpson Thacher. She has extensive experience advising prominent sponsors on cutting-edge transactions designed to provide liquidity to both GPs and investors. She advises on the full range of secondaries transactions, including traditional and synthetic secondaries acquisitions and dispositions, and GP-led restructurings.
Lauren also counsels sponsors on the organization, structuring and operation of secondaries funds, as well as minority stakes deals. She has wide-ranging experience advising on the development and fundraising of vehicles across numerous strategies, and in connection with fund governance matters, upper-tier structuring and succession planning, marketing and limited-partner transfers.
Lauren has represented a diverse group of asset managers and secondary investors, including, among others, Neuberger Berman, Pantheon Ventures, Portfolio Advisors, Blackstone Strategic Partners, HarbourVest, Serena Ventures, Angelo Gordon, Frontier Growth Partners, Evercore, Goldman Sachs, Leonard Green, Tiger Infrastructure Partners, WeWork Capital Advisors, VCFA Group, GE Asset Management (now State Street Global Advisors), LCN Capital Partners, Hamilton Lane, Graham Partners, Coller Capital and FirstMark Ventures.
Lauren received her J.D. from New York University School of Law, where she was the founding member and notes editor for the Journal of Law and Business. She received her B.A. from Gettysburg College, summa cum laude. She is admitted to practice in New York.