Principal and General Counsel
CCK Global Partners, LLC.
With more than 14 years of international and domestic policy, legislative and regulatory experience, Lauren has advised CEOs and senior executives of global biomedical technology, high technology, chemical and manufacturing companies, industry organizations, and investors, as well as U.S. government leaders and international NGOs on domestic and international regulatory, policy and market access matters before U.S. Congress, U.S. government, and foreign governments.
Prior to joining CCK Global Partners, Lauren served as counsel at a leading law firm advising biomedical technology and chemical and manufacturing companies on international and domestic legislative, regulatory, and market access matters. Lauren also served as the first policy director for the emerging technology companies at BIO, where she developed capital formation policies and regulatory reforms impacting emerging technology interests. Lauren also created and managed the only multi-industry coalition effort to reform the Sarbanes-Oxley regulation before the SEC. Lauren also served as the e-commerce, trade and IP policy expert for a leading high tech industry organization, and served as counsel to the Deputy Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a special agency of the UN on WIPO treaty development and implementation.
Prior to her work with the industry and NGOs, Lauren served as Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary of Treasury for Domestic Finance and as counsel on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee to Senator Dianne Feinstein of California. Lauren has also served on numerous U.S. Presidential campaigns and most recently served on President Obama’s campaign on three policy committees and on the Presidential transition’s Technology Innovation and Government Reform policy team.
Lauren holds a J.D. from UC Hastings College of Law; M.A. in International Banking and Finance from Columbia University, and B.A. in Political Science from UC Berkeley.
