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Lauren V. Reeves

Counsel
Raleigh | 919.835.4532
Fax | 919.834.4564

Lauren Reeves provides creative solutions tailored to her clients' commercial real estate goals. She advises on real estate leasing, purchasing, selling, financing, title issues, and closing. Her clients range from individuals to small businesses to large corporate entities. She invests the time to understand each of her clients' goals and personalities.

Lauren has extensive experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating leases, including for the national footprints of corporate clients. She represents both landlords and tenants for retail, industrial, office, restaurant, medical, dental, and veterinary leases and subleases.

She also routinely represents buyers, sellers, lenders, investors, landlords, and tenants in commercial development and redevelopment transactions. This experience includes the acquisition and disposition of retail, warehouse, shopping center, and office properties across the country.

Lauren serves on the board of directors for Triangle Commercial Real Estate Women (TCREW). Recently, Lauren served as chair of its University CREW (UCREW) committee, fostering relationships with local colleges and universities to promote mentorship and scholarship opportunities. She continues to be an active member of that committee, serving as board liaison.

Lauren began her legal career with a hybrid of transaction and litigation work but quickly realized she wanted to focus on transactions because of their collaborative nature. She has an affinity for working creatively with parties toward a common goal while zealously advocating for her clients.

Lauren is a Raleigh native who lives with her husband, two young sons, and two cats named after Harry Potter characters. Outside of work, you will find her spending time with her family and friends, laughing, and enjoying the Raleigh community.

Representative Experience

Leasing Experience

  • Represented landlords and tenants in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating leases, lease extensions, terminations, amendments, assignments, and subordination agreements.
  • Drafted and negotiated retail, warehouse, and office leases, lease amendments, sale/leaseback agreements, reciprocal easement agreements, access easement agreements, subleases, and purchase and sale contracts.
  • Represented anchor and second-tier anchor tenants in negotiating leases across the United States, including build to suit, reverse build to suit, and ground leasing structures.
  • Represented both landlords and tenants for retail, industrial, office, restaurant, medical, dental, and veterinary leases and subleases.
  • Represented publicly traded clinical laboratory tenant in negotiating leases, amendments, and subleases for over 100 commercial lab sites.

Acquisition & Disposition Experience

  • Handled a wide variety of commercial real estate needs, including the acquisition, sale, leasing, and financing of retail, warehouse, shopping center, and office space.
  • Represented real estate investor in purchase and leasing needs for over 30 locations across the United States.
  • Handled multimillion-dollar acquisition of biogas site.
  • Represented purchasers in acquisitions for various restaurants.
  • Represented investors in acquisition and disposition transactions with Internal Revenue Code Section 1031 exchanges and reverse 1031 exchanges.

Other Real Estate Experience

  • Acted as trustee in over 500 real estate foreclosures.
  • Searched and certified title for local, regional, and national title insurance companies.

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Honors & Awards

  • The Best Lawyers in America in Real Estate Law, 2019-2025

Memberships

  • Triangle Commercial Real Estate Women (TCREW), Board of Directors, 2022-current; UCREW Committee, Chair, 2021-2022; UCREW Board Liaison, 2022-current
  • Wake County Bar Association, Board of Directors, 2014-2017; United States Supreme Court Swearing-In Ceremony Committee, Past Chair
  • Tenth Judicial District Bar, Board of Directors, 2014-2017; Swearing-In Committee, Past Co-Chair