Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Corporate/Private Funds/Investment Funds/Fund Transactions

Co-Head of the Fund Transactions practice, Lauren King 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, Blackstone Strategic Partners, Pantheon Ventures, Portfolio Advisors, HarbourVest, Serena Ventures, WeWork Capital Advisors, Hamilton Lane, Graham Partners, Coller Capital and FirstMark Ventures.

Partner at Simpson Thacher since 2021. Previously at Goodwin as Partner (2019-2021).

J.D., New York University School of Law, 2005 (founding member and notes editor for the Journal of Law and Business); B.A., Gettysburg College, 2002 (summa cum laude).