Lauren Eve Manton

Lauren Manton handles a wide range of complex commercial real estate matters and helps clients solve problems and close deals. She regularly represents investors, operators, developers, banks and life insurance companies in structuring and negotiating real estate acquisitions and dispositions, sales and financings throughout the US.

Lauren specializes in real estate finance, and seamlessly transitions between representing borrowers and major institutional lenders in a variety of financing transactions for office, retail, hotel, multi-family and other asset classes, including permanent financing, construction financing, bridge financing, mezzanine financing, CMBS financing, Freddie/Fannie financing and loan assumptions.  Lauren also has extensive experience with workouts and deed-in-lieu transactions.

Lauren has extensive experience in the hospitality sector, handling the purchase, sale and financing of hotels. Lauren represents owners and operators on management and franchise agreements, and other specialized issues, for all types of hotel assets. Lauren is known in the hospitality industry for her broad knowledge and for her ability to translate intricate business structures into clear and concise legal documents, and to get transactions closed. She has successfully completed more than two billion dollars of deals for our clients in the hospitality sector alone. 

A portion of Lauren’s practice also includes the representation of clients in leasing office, commercial and warehouse space both as Tenants and as Landlords.

Lauren devotes a significant amount of time each year to pro bono matters and has assisted numerous victims of domestic violence obtain U-VISAs.   In addition, Lauren recently represented the operator of a co-working space for artists sign a lease for newly built space in the Hunts Point neighborhood of the Bronx.  Lauren has also assisted this client in the preparation of the form of Membership Agreements for the artists and theater groups which occupy the space.