Biography
Lauren’s representative clients include Altamont Capital Partners, American Securities, Berkshire Partners, Brookfield Asset Management, Crow Holdings, Genstar Capital, Kainos Capital, Pacific Avenue Capital Partners, Sixth Street Partners, Strattam Capital, Stripes Group, TPG, and Trive Capital.
Lauren has been part of the teams advising:
- Berkshire Partners in its formation of Berkshire Fund X, L.P., a $5.9 billion buyout fund focused on investments in middle-market companies
- Brookfield Asset Management
- in its formation of Brookfield Infrastructure Fund V, L.P., a $30 billion a global infrastructure fund
- in its $15 billion formation of Brookfield Global Transition Fund, the world’s largest private fund dedicated to facilitating the global transition to a net-zero carbon economy
- in its formation of Brookfield Infrastructure Debt Fund III, LP, a $6 billion an infrastructure debt focused fund
- in its formation of Catalytic Transition Fund, a $2.4 billion global private equity and infrastructure fund
- in connection with the spin-off of a 25% interest in its asset management business through a newly listed company, Brookfield Asset Management Ltd., with a market value of more than $50 billion as of the spin-off date
- in its acquisition of the Private Equity Solutions secondaries business from DWS Alternatives Global Ltd.
- in its formation of Brookfield Capital Partners VI, L.P., a buyout fund
- Crow Holdings Capital Partners in its formation of Crow Holdings Realty Partners VIII, L.P., a real estate fund in the United States
- Genstar Capital in its formation of Genstar Capital Partners XI, L.P., a $12.6 billion buyout fund focused on investments in middle-market companies in North America
- Genstar Capital in its formation of Genstar Capital Partners VIII, L.P., a $3.3 billion North American buyout fund which closed with $3.1 billion of limited partner capital commitments, $650 million of committed overage capacity from select Limited Partners and another $200 million from Genstar and affiliated entities
- Kainos Capital in its formation of Kainos Capital Partners II L.P., an $875 million fund focused on the food and consumer products sectors
- Lee Equity Partners in its formation of Lee Equity Partners Fund II, L.P., a U.S. buyout fund
- Strattam Capital in its formation of Strattam Capital Investment Fund III, L.P., a buyout fund
- Stripes Group in its formation of SG Growth Partners IV, L.P., a North American growth equity fund focused on technology-enabled and branded consumer product companies
Lauren received her J.D. from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and her B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of Oklahoma.
Latest Thinking, Firm News & Announcements
Latest Thinking
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New Partnership Withholding Obligations Effective as of January 1, 2023
Blog Post — Tax Blog
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Robert Frastai,
Andrew Morris and
Lauren Gorsche
— January 06, 2023
Background In 2017, tax legislation was enacted to provide that (x) gain or loss derived by a non-US person on the sale or exchange of an interest in a partnership engaged in a U.S. trade or business is treated as effectively connected gain or loss and subject to U.S. tax (“ECI”) and (y) a transferee
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New IRS proposed regulation would reverse longstanding IRS ruling and upend commonly used real estate fund structures
Blog Post — Tax Blog
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Devon Bodoh,
Greg Featherman,
Robert Frastai,
Hillel N. Jacobson,
Andrew Morris and
Lauren Gorsche
— January 04, 2023
Shortly before the new year, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) dropped a holiday bombshell on the tax community when it issued a proposed regulation under the Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act of 1980 (“FIRPTA”). The proposed regulation would, if enacted in its current form, reverse a longstanding IRS ruling interpreting FIRPTA (the “2009
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... - New IRS proposed regulation would reverse longstanding IRS ruling and upend commonly used real estate fund structures Alert — By Devon Bodoh, Greg Featherman, Robert Frastai, Hillel N. Jacobson, Andrew Morris and Lauren Gorsche — PDF — January 04, 2023
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Certain Carried Interest Tax Changes in the Schumer – Manchin Tax Reconciliation Bill (Inflation Reduction Act of 2022)
Blog Post — Tax Blog
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Robert Frastai,
Andrew Morris and
Lauren Gorsche
— July 28, 2022
On July 27, 2022, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Joe Manchin reached a deal on new legislation entitled the “Inflation... ...
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