Colleen is the first person her clients call when they are contemplating a transaction or a new agreement. She is responsive and available to her clients for all their corporate and business needs. Colleen’s ability to process and solve complex legal issues and her experience in effectively educating and counseling clients adds value to every legal matter. Colleen has over 25 years of legal experience that includes international and domestic business transactions, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures (especially with respect to the drafting of limited liability company and shareholder agreements), private company investments, borrower-side bank finance transactions, general contract drafting and review and corporate governance matters. She works with entertainment lawyers who need business-related legal and secured transaction advice for their clients’ publishing, merchandising and joint venture transactions.
Colleen regularly represents clients on both large transactional matters and their operational needs. She is especially adept at managing complex transactions and coordinating the legal teams that are required to close them effectively so that clients can utilize her as their single point person. She works well with her clients’ management teams and other professional advisors. Additionally, she helps clients solve day-to-day problems and put more routine business agreements in place. Clients have commented that she is “so valuable to us” and that working with her “was the best experience with an attorney we have ever had” and have often remarked on Colleen’s “quick response time”, her ability to meet deadlines, and her effectiveness at explaining complex concepts to non-lawyers.
Colleen started her legal career as a corporate attorney in the Miami, Stockholm, and Helsinki offices of White & Case LLP, a New York.-based global law firm. She then taught full-time at Nova Southeastern University’s Shepard Broad College of Law. At NSU, she taught critical legal skills, helped prepare graduates for the bar exam and prepared student teams for, and judged, competitions related to international arbitration, client counseling and transactional drafting. Prior to co-founding Grady Hunt PLLC, Colleen was a corporate partner at a preeminent Miami boutique law firm founded by former White & Case lawyers where she served as managing partner for two years.
Lauren makes her client’s needs her priority and guides them through every stage of the real estate transaction process, from letter of intent through closing. Lauren regularly advises individual and corporate clients, as well as local municipalities, on a broad-range of real estate and real estate-related transactions, including public-private partnerships, acquisitions, dispositions, financings and leasing. With more than 20 years’ experience across all aspects of developing, purchasing, leasing, financing, managing, and selling real estate, Lauren is adept at identifying issues that matter most to her clients and helping them to make informed, strategic decisions. She has extensive experience navigating complex real estate development issues.
Clients value Lauren’s solution-focused approach and strong work ethic, which ensure that matters are handled thoroughly and efficiently. Clients have described Lauren as their “go-to” attorney, noting that they “want Lauren involved in every aspect of the transaction because she has our best interests at the forefront” and expressing appreciation for “the continuous hard work that got us to closing.”
In addition to her active legal practice, Lauren is committed to educating the next generation of real estate lawyers. She has taught Land Security and Finance, serving both practicing attorneys and LL.M. candidates in Real Property Development, as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Miami School of Law. Lauren is deeply committed to community service. As a member of the Junior League of Miami since 2005, she has served in numerous leadership roles, including Vice President of Development and as a member of the Board of Directors. Lauren is passionate about philanthropy and service. Lauren is involved with the Urban Land Institute (ULI), a nonprofit organization dedicated to responsible land development and sustainable communities, including participation in ULI’s Women’s Leadership Institute.
Lauren began her legal career in the Miami office of White & Case LLP, where she was a real estate and finance attorney. Prior to co-founding Grady Hunt PLLC, Lauren was the head of the real estate practice at a preeminent Miami boutique law firm founded by former White & Case lawyers.
