Bio

Lauren Bellerjeau is a corporate partner in the Austin office of Morrison Foerster. Lauren has served as a trusted advisor to boards of directors and executive management teams in the negotiation of their companies’ most significant combination, commercial and corporate governance transactions. Her extensive private practice experience includes representing both buy-side and sell-side clients on complex and transformative U.S. and cross-border combination and commercial transactions in a variety of industries, with a particular focus on technology, real estate investment trusts, government contracting and defense, life sciences, and manufacturing. She has also regularly counseled REITs and other companies with significant real estate holdings or real estate management businesses on complex restructuring and roll-up transactions, particularly in contemplation of initial public offerings, large equity investments, or strategic transactions. Lauren also has valuable in-house experience, having recently served as Senior Vice President, Assistant General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer at onsemi, a leader in intelligent power and sensing technologies recognized as a Fortune 500® company and included in the S&P 500® index. While at Morrison Foerster, Lauren has been recognized by leading legal publications and directories, including The Legal 500 US for Real Estate Investment Trusts and M&A: Large Deals ($1bn+), as an Emerging M&A Leader – Legal by M&A Advisor and as a Rising Star – M&A by Law360.