Lauren Pryor is a partner in Mayer Brown’s Washington DC office and a member of the Financial Services, Regulatory & Enforcement practice. She focuses her practice on counseling clients in corporate and business transactional matters primarily in the financial services industry. Lauren also focuses on general corporate transactional matters including advising publicly held and private companies involved in mergers, acquisitions and divestitures and transfers of assets, including mortgage servicing rights and whole loan sales. Lauren has counseled clients in complex stock and asset-based transactions, joint ventures, financings, entity formation and business planning across industry sectors, including mortgage companies, loan servicers, banks, hedge funds, biopharma and technology firms. She has experience negotiating and drafting mortgage servicing rights purchase and sale agreements, including flow purchase and sale agreements. Lauren has prepared proxy statements and other securities compliance materials and legal documents relating to various acquisitions and financing transactions involving public companies.