About
Lauren is an associate in our antitrust, competition, and trade practice based in New York.
Lauren represents clients on a broad range of antitrust issues, including mergers and acquisitions and civil antitrust litigation. She also helps prepare clients for key engagement with antitrust regulators and for testimony in high-stakes antitrust litigation in federal court.
Prior to joining Freshfields, Lauren was the Editor-in-Chief for the Notre Dame Journal of Legislation, was an Oralist for the Moot Court Board’s Phillip C. Jessup International Law Team, and was the Academic Chair of the Hispanic Law Students Association.
Additional Information
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise in its litigation against the DOJ’s attempt to block HPE’s $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks.
- Google as a trial team member in United States, et al. v. Google LLC (E.D. Va.), Texas, et al. v. Google LLC (E.D. Tex.); and In re Google Advertising Antitrust Litigation (S.D.N.Y.), litigation brought by the Department of Justice, more than 30 state attorneys general, and various class action plaintiffs, alleging violations of Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act in connection with Google’s ad tech business.
- Advised Cargill in the $4.53bn take-private of Nasdaq-listed Sanderson Farms and the concurrent combination of Sanderson Farms with privately-held Wayne Farms.
- Zymergen on its $300 million sale to Ginkgo Bioworks—the first-ever sale of a publicly-listed public benefit corporation
Lauren Vanderslice
Associate
New York Office
3 World Trade Center
175 Greenwich Street, 51st Floor
New York 10007