Lauren A. Beetle

Lauren A. Beetle

Administrative and Personnel Partner

Lauren Beetle represents investors, developers, business owners, and operating companies in high-value real estate, finance, and corporate transactions. As Administrative and Personnel Partner, she also oversees firm operations and personnel matters. She is a practical strategist with deep experience navigating commercial real estate law, financing, ownership structures, regulatory elements, and business priorities to carry complex transactions across the finish line.

“My job is to map out a path for clients so there aren’t surprises in a transaction — with a view that focuses on how today’s decisions will serve a client’s long-term interests.”

Areas of Practice

Education

Rutgers University School of Law-Camden, J.D., with high honors, 2003

Douglass College, Rutgers University, B.A., summa cum laude, 2000

Admissions

New Jersey

Pennsylvania

Lauren Beetle represents investors, developers, business owners, and operating companies in high-value real estate, finance, and corporate transactions. As Administrative and Personnel Partner, she also oversees firm operations and personnel matters. She is a practical strategist with deep experience navigating commercial real estate law, financing, ownership structures, regulatory elements, and business priorities to carry complex transactions across the finish line.

Lauren’s real estate and finance practice includes handling multi-asset portfolio sales and acquisitions, sophisticated multifamily transactions, and representing borrowers in a variety of financings. She works frequently with private equity groups, national multifamily property owners, and regional shopping center owners and developers on acquisitions, dispositions, and refinancings that exceed tens of millions of dollars. Her experience includes negotiating loan documents, including Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac debt, managing complex due diligence projects, coordinating refinancings on short timetables, and structuring 1031-driven sales and purchases. She is skilled at harmonizing the demands of lenders, investors, and business owners so that transactions keep momentum and progress to closing timely.

Her corporate and commercial practice aligns closely with her real estate work. Lauren represents buyers and sellers in asset and equity transactions, drafts and negotiates joint venture and operating agreements, and advises companies on ownership and governance structures. She also has experience representing businesses in asset-based lending. Liquor licensing and regulation remains a niche area of her practice in New Jersey. Her work during college with the New Jersey Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control and years of advising developers and hospitality clients allow her to help clients navigate these regulatory requirements strategically.

The complexity of Lauren’s practice reflects the interconnected, multilayered nature of the transactions she handles. She has a talent for seeing how the pieces of a puzzle connect — and where they could collide — so that deals close timely and efficiently. Clients value her problem-solving skills and draw on her deep transactional experience.

Lauren’s leadership within Hyland Levin Shapiro reflects the same steady judgment. In her role as Administrative and Personnel Partner, she manages multiple administrative functions, including firm policy development and staffing and personnel matters. She works closely with attorneys and professional staff to strengthen the systems that support client service. Lauren has a clear sense of what is equitable, what is sustainable, and what ultimately benefits the clients and people of Hyland Levin Shapiro. That same instinct for balance carries into her life outside the firm, where she cherishes time with her family and exploring the outdoors.

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Representative Matters

Handled a $315 million refinancing of six apartment buildings located in the mid-Atlantic region with Freddie Mac debt on a 30-day timetable

Handled financing of four apartment buildings located in Florida, Virginia and Massachusetts involving $266 million of new debt and a loan assumption

Represented a multi-family investor in the acquisition of a $90 million apartment property in New Jersey

Represented a real estate owner in 1031-related sales of ten single-tenant properties located in Pennsylvania and New Jersey to a large investment firm buyer and the purchase of seven replacement investment properties located in Florida, North Carolina, Texas and Massachusetts

Represented operating company in connection with $90 million credit facility secured by pledged collateral and parent guaranty

Serve as outside US real estate counsel to an international food manufacturer in connection with its real estate, leasing and construction needs

Represented a national franchise restaurant chain in connection with the transfer and disposition of liquor licenses in New Jersey

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Community Involvement

Girl Scouts of Central and Southern New Jersey, Former Vice-Chair, Executive Committee and Board Member

Habitat for Humanity of Burlington County and Greater Trenton-Princeton, Former Board Member

Head of School Advisory Board, Moorestown Friends School, Former Member

Honors & Recognitions

New Jersey Outstanding Woman of the Year in Law, Burlington County, 2018

New Jersey Law Journal “New Leaders of the Bar,” 2013

New Jersey Rising Stars, 2013

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Publications

“When Will the Rent be Paid?  A Commercial Landlord’s Perspective,” Co-author, Hyland Levin Shapiro LLP Client Alert, May 2020

“What You Need to Know About the Paycheck Protection Program as of April 3, 2020,” Co-author, Hyland Levin Shapiro LLP Client Alert, April 2020

“COVID-19 3-31-2020 Update – The CARES Act and Commercial Real Estate,” Co-author, Hyland Levin Shapiro LLP Client Alert, March 2020

“Beyond the Lease: Practice Points for Landlord’s Counsel,” Co-author, New Jersey Law Journal, June 1, 2015

“Positive Changes are Brewing for New Jersey’s Beer Industry,” SJ Chamber of Commerce Newsletter, October 2012

“Ask an Expert: Keys to Performing Due Diligence for Distressed Real Estate,” SNJ Business People, Vol. 3, Issue 4, April, 2009

“Landlord Issues in a Complex Economy,” Co-author, The Legal Intelligencer, March 2, 2009

“Tackling Environmental Issues in Real Estate Agreements,” Co-author, New Jersey Law Journal, July 21, 2008

“Negotiating a Service Contract,” New Jersey Law Journal, June 29, 2007

“Restaurants as Tenants: Guidelines for Navigating Liquor License Issues,” New Jersey Law Journal, November 6, 2006

“A New Twist on Municipal Redevelopment Powers: The Benefits and Flaws of New Jersey’s Abandoned Properties Rehabilitation Act,” New Jersey Law Journal, January 3, 2005

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Speaking Engagements

“The Nuts and Bolts of Retail Leases – Exclusive Use Provisions,” American Bar Association, Real Property, Trusts & Estates Section, Retail Leasing Committee, November 20, 2008

“Financial Incentives for Redevelopment,” New Jersey Redevelopment Authority Redevelopment Training Institute, October 2, 2008

“Real Estate Issues in Acquisition Transactions in New Jersey,” Lorman Education Services, September 13, 2006

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