Lauren Black is a partner with 15 years of experience representing companies and high-net-worth business clients in federal and state cases and arbitrations.
Lauren represents her clients across a wide range of complex litigation matters, including disputes involving business divorces, breaches of contract, business fraud, conversion, violations of fiduciary duties, breach of noncompete covenants, theft of trade secrets, unjust enrichment, and business disparagement.
She litigates these types of contractual, business divorce, and other matters across all manners of industries, including:
- Real estate - breaches of commercial lease agreements, disputes over TIAs, and HOA disputes
- Insurance - MGA agreements and disclosure requirements
- Environmental - cases brought by private parties and state regulatory agencies alleging contamination, representing both middle-market and Fortune 100 companies on the defense side
- Manufacturing and sales - disputes involving MSAs (both sales and supplier agreements), commissions agreements, vendor agreements, and UCC liens, and on behalf of chemical manufacturers, machining companies, retailers, and everything in between
- Healthcare - breaches of consulting agreements and claims involving regulatory violations
- Computer software and technology - disputes involving startups and app developers
- Construction - disputes involving multimillion-dollar projects across a range of industries, whether on the owner, GC, subcontractor, or supplier’s side
- Logistics - disputes involving trucking companies, commercial storage facilities, and companies operating through the Port of Houston
- Hospitality - disputes (for example, a dispute involving Houston-area restauranteurs)
- Private equity - disputes involving credit agreements, LPAs, placement agreements, management agreements, and breaches of reps and warranties
- All aspects of the oil and gas and renewables sector - disputes relating to JOAs and supplier agreements, force majeure events, E&P projects, and gathering and purchase agreements
Lauren has achieved favorable results for her clients across the entire life cycle of disputes, whether by securing early dispute resolution or favorable settlement, or taking a case all the way through impactful presentation at bench trials, jury trials, and arbitrations. She focuses on practical, strategic, and efficient approaches, while remaining unafraid to take a case to trial.
Lauren takes pride in winning decisively, whether through an “eight-figure” jury award on the plaintiff’s side, highly advantageous settlements, or a “nine-figure” take-nothing judgment on the defense side.
