Lauren N. Schwimmer

Lauren N. Schwimmer is a member of Flaster Greenberg’s Business & Corporate Law and Real Estate Departments and its Aviation Industry Group. As part of the Business & Corporate Law Department, she routinely helps individuals with the formation of business entities, drafting governance documents and structuring of buy-sell and other arrangements among shareholders, members or other principals. Lauren provides comprehensive counsel to her clients throughout all stages of their business lifecycle, helping them navigate a wide range of legal challenges. She also has extensive experience in reviewing and negotiating agreements with vendors, customers, and suppliers as well as employment agreements. One of her greatest passions is serving as outside counsel for an entity and supporting organizations in their growth.

Lauren also has extensive transactional experience including the purchase and sale of businesses and in connection with the acquisition, financing, and sale of commercial real estate. As a member of the Real Estate Department, she regularly represents landlords and tenants in the negotiation and drafting of commercial leases. Before joining the firm, Lauren also gained experience in commercial and general civil litigation, banking law, and bankruptcy. This diverse background enables her to offer a unique perspective when reviewing agreements.

Lauren earned her law degree from the University of Pennsylvania. While at the University of Pennsylvania she earned a Certificate in Business and Public Policy from the Wharton School and was a senior editor of the Journal of Law and Social Change. 

• Represented several medical practices in sales to major healthcare systems, including the negotiation of employment agreements and asset purchase agreements.
• Represented the sellers of a specialized medical practices in connection with sales to private equity firms, including representing the principals of sellers in having a continuing ownership interest in and an employment agreement with the buyer. 
• Represented an airport located in upstate New York in a $61 million terminal modernization and renovation project. 
• Part of a team of multidisciplinary attorneys in the representation of a provider of Medicare benefit solutions in connection with its recapitalization project with a private equity firm. The complex transaction entailed significant M&A, asset protection, estate and income tax planning.
• Represented a regional provider of telecommunications services in the purchase of the assets of another telecom provider in order to increase our client’s geographic footprint. The transaction was the culmination of a multi-year process and involved extensive negotiations, regulatory approvals, and complex due diligence review.
• Represented a software company and its owner in an asset sale. This transaction required numerous consents as well as the termination of certain existing agreements necessitating complex negotiations between the company and its clients, vendors and creditors before the assets could be sold.
• Represented a newly formed wholesale agent/broker of pharmaceuticals entity in purchasing a brokerage agreement allowing it to become the exclusive broker of certain hemp derived cannabinoid active pharmaceutical ingredients.
• Represented the purchaser of the assets of a sandwich meat manufacturing and distribution business, including associated real estate purchase, multi-tiered bank financing, agreements with investors, employment agreements with key employees, rollover equity, and multiple escrows.
• Represented a closely held manufacturing and HVAC company and its principals in the sale of the stock of the company to a private equity-backed strategic partner. The transaction involved pre-closing restructuring utilizing the so-called F reorganization/S corporation inversion technique. There was also equity rollover in the parent of the buyer, employment agreements, and a lease of the related real estate to the buyer.
• Represented a supplier of marketing, promotional and organizational products in the sale of its assets to a larger marketing company in a strategic acquisition, including the continued employment of the principal. 
• Represented an importer and wholesale distributor of fine wines and craft beers in the purchase of the assets of another wholesale distributor.
• Represented a buyer in purchasing the assets of a failed business, including all remaining inventory, customer lists and manufacturing contract.

• Named a Pennsylvania “Rising Star” in the area of Business & Corporate Law, 2014 – 2024, by Thomson Reuters, publishers of Pennsylvania Super Lawyers magazine

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• Philadelphia Bar Association
• Exit Planning Exchange (XPX) - Philadelphia Chapter 
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