Overview

Lauren’s practice focuses on all aspects of restructuring and reorganization work, including representing debtors, creditors, equity holders, and investors in chapter 11 cases, out-of-court restructurings, and distressed acquisitions and investments. She has experience representing clients in a variety of industries including energy, transportation, agriculture, finance, health care, and food and beverage.

Experience Highlights

  • Encore Renewable Energy, a leading renewable energy developer and operator, in connection with the successful out-of-court restructuring of its bespoke integrated construction-to-term debt and a tax equity bridge facility

  • Riverstone Holdings LLC, its portfolio company, Talen Energy Corporation (TEC), and TEC’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Cumulus Growth Holdings LLC in the chapter 11 cases of TEC’s wholly-owned subsidiary Talen Energy Supply, LLC, which involved key settlements that paved the way for a consensual reorganization of Talen’s legacy power generation business and the Cumulus data center and cryptomining growth initiatives and allowed Riverstone to retain material equity positions in both TEC and Cumulus Growth

  • Rockall Energy and its subsidiaries in a chapter 11 sales process in which substantially all of the company’s operating assets were sold to Formentera Partners Fund I, LP pursuant to a prepackaged chapter 11 plan with a dual-track sale and back-stop equitization process that was confirmed within 83 days of commencing the chapter 11 cases

  • Unit Corporation, a diversified, publicly-traded energy company engaged in oil and natural gas exploration and production, contract drilling, and midstream services, and its affiliates in connection with its prearranged chapter 11 cases deleveraging the company by approximately $650 million in a debt-for-equity transaction with its subordinated noteholders

  • Bonanza Creek Energy in a merger to acquire HighPoint Resources Corporation that was valued at approximately $376 million, and included a registered exchange offer, consent solicitation, and simultaneous registered solicitation of a prepackaged plan of reorganization under chapter 11, which was followed by two subsequent out-of-court mergers and acquisitions by the combined company, resulting in a company with total expected enterprise value of $4.5 billion

  • Riverstone Holdings as sponsor in the prepackaged chapter 11 cases of its portfolio company UTEX Industries, a leading sealant manufacturer

  • Cloud Peak Energy in the sale of substantially all their operating assets to an affiliate of the Navajo Nation as part of its chapter 11 cases involving approximately $350 million in funded debt and over $750 million in total liabilities

  • An ad hoc group of convertible noteholders in the prepackaged chapter 11 case of Global Brokerage, Inc.

  • Private equity firms including Sixth Street, Riverstone, TPG, Kayne Anderson, and Quantum Energy Partners in connection with special situation investments, strategic alternatives, risk mitigation, and liability management transactions

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Credentials

Education

  • Fordham University School of Law, J.D. cum laude, 2013 (Member, Fordham Law Review)
  • Boston University, B.S. Communications magna cum laude, 2007

Admissions

  • New York
  • Southern District of New York

Recognitions

  • Legal 500 U.S., Finance: Restructuring (including Bankruptcy): Corporate, 2022
  • The Best Lawyers in America© (BL Rankings, LLC), “Ones to Watch,” Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law and Corporate Law (New York), 2023 and 2024
  • 2025 Global M&A Network’s Turnaround Atlas Awards – Pre-Pack Restructuring of the Year (Middle Market)
Insights

Client Alerts

SCOTUS in Purdue: Non-Debtor Third-Party Releases Are Not Permitted in Chapter 11 Plans Without Consent

On June 27, 2024, the United States Supreme Court (the “Supreme Court” or “Court”) rendered a 5-4 opinion in Harrington v. Purdue Pharma, L.P. that “the [B]ankruptcy [C]ode does not authorize a release and injunction that, as part of a plan of reorganization under Chapter 11, effectively seeks to discharge claims against a nondebtor without the consent of affected claimants.”

June 28, 2024 • V&E Restructuring & Reorganization Update

June 28, 2024 • 7-minute read

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Client Alerts

In re Purdue Pharma L.P.: Second Circuit Reverses S.D.N.Y and Holds Bankruptcy Court Has Subject Matter Jurisdiction and Statutory Authority to Approve Sackler Family Releases

On May 30, 2023, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (the “Second Circuit” or the “Court”) rendered a much anticipated opinion (the “Opinion”),1 reversing the order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (the “District Court”) that the Bankruptcy Code does not permit non-consensual third-party releases of direct claims and affirming the order of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York (the “Bankruptcy Court”) confirming the chapter 11 plan (the “Purdue Plan”) of Purdue Pharma L.P. (“Purdue”), which approved non-consensual third-party releases of the owners of Purdue — members of the Sackler family.

June 6, 2023 • V&E Restructuring & Reorganization Update

June 6, 2023 • 7-minute read

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Client Alerts

In re Boy Scouts of America and Delaware BSA, LLC: Delaware District Court Affirms Bankruptcy Court’s Approval of Third-Party Releases, in Conflict with Southern District of New York District Court in Purdue

On March 28, 2023, the United States District Court for the District of Delaware (the “District Court”) rendered an opinion (the “Opinion”)1 affirming the confirmation order of Laurie S. Silverstein, of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (the “Bankruptcy Court”) that confirmed the chapter 11 plan (the “Plan”) of the Boy Scouts of America (“BSA”) (collectively, the “Confirmation Order”).2

May 2, 2023 • V&E Restructuring & Reorganization Update

May 2, 2023 • 8-minute read

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Event Recaps

Navigating Creditor on Creditor Violence: The New Normal?

Vinson & Elkins attorneys discuss recent creative deleveraging and restructuring transactions, including non-pro rata uptier exchanges, priming transactions, and financing assets transferred to unrestricted…

April 27, 2023

April 27, 2023 • 1-minute read

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Client Alerts

Silicon Valley Bank FDIC Takeover

Silicon Valley Bank (“SVB”), a key lender serving customers and borrowers primarily in the technology industry, was taken over by U.S. regulators on Friday, March 10, 2023. Included herein are considerations that may be top of mind for persons with connections to SVB.

March 12, 2023 • V&E Restructuring & Reorganization Update

March 12, 2023 • 2-minute read

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News & Achievements