Suite 1000, Brunswick House
44 Chipman Hill
Saint John, N.B.
E2L 2A9
lhenderson@stewartmckelvey.com
Language(s) spoken: English
Bar Admission(s): New Brunswick, 2016
Legal Assistant(s): Isabelle Nugent
Lauren is a detail-oriented associate who explores all legal avenues of an issue, translating findings into simple, practical and effective advice for her clients. Her practice focuses primarily on commercial real estate, banking and debt financing, mergers and acquisitions and private equity funds.
Lauren’s representative experience includes:
- Acting for both purchasers and vendors in connection with acquisitions, including Cooke Aquaculture’s $500 million dollar acquisition of publicly traded Omega Protein Corporation – one of the largest foreign investment deals a New Brunswick company has completed in the United States.
- Acting for lenders and borrowers in connection with significant commercial financings and re-financings, including with respect to wind farm development projects.
- Working with institutional investors (such as pension plans) in connection with their investments in private equity funds, infrastructure funds and real estate funds. This includes reviewing, advising and negotiating investment documentation including limited partnership agreements, management service agreements, side letters, MFN Elections and subscription agreements.
Education & Career
Education
The Osgoode Certificate in Pension Law, 2020
University of New Brunswick Faculty of Law, JD, 2015
University of New Brunswick, BA, 2012
Activities
Member, Canadian Bar Association
Director, New Brunswick SPCA board, 2018 – present
Member, diversity & inclusion committee, 2016 – present
Accolades
Currie Scholarship
Dean’s List Scholar
Christopher Young Prize for Secured Transactions
Bereskin & Parr Prize in Intellectual Property
Forging our Future Scholarship
Mabel French Scholarship
Irving Oil Scholarship
New Brunswick Law Foundation Scholarship
Mary McKean Scholarship