Lauren Traina is an associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She currently practices in the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group.

Her practice focuses on land use and real estate matters, with an emphasis on energy transactions, including project development, acquisitions, financings and restructurings. She has significant expertise in wind power, solar power and other renewable energy technology, and has represented both developers and tax equity investors in connection with these transactions. Lauren also has notable experience in corporate mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, and securities regulation.

Significant Representations:

• Represented First Reserve in connection with its investment in the 120 MW Comanche Solar Facility located in Pueblo County, Colorado, credited as being “the largest solar farm east of the Rocky Mountains.”
• Represented Terna Energy in connection with simultaneous tax equity, construction financing, and joint venture transactions related to its 155 MW wind facility to be constructed in Fluvanna, Texas.
• Represented Berkshire Hathaway Renewables in its acquisition of the 110 MW Alamo 6 Solar Project located in Pecos County, Texas.
• Represented MidAmerican Energy in connection with its tax equity investment in the 230 MW Mariah North Wind Project, including a sale lease-back arrangement for the project’s 27 mile, 345 kV transmission line and related rights-of-way.
• Represented the Carlyle Group in connection with its acquisition of Essential Power’s 1,767 net MW power generation portfolio, including natural gas-fired, petroleum-fired and hydroelectric facilities located in New Hampshire, New Jersey, Maryland, and Massachusetts.
• Represented Energy Future Holdings in its $1.3 billion acquisition of two gas turbine power plants in Northeast Texas with a combined capacity of 2,988 MW.
• Represented Newport Corporation in its $980 million acquisition by MKS Instruments, Inc.
• Represented PneuDraulics, Inc. in its $325 million sale to TransDigm Group Incorporated.

Lauren was recognized as a Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America™ 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 in Real Estate and also, in Land Use and Zoning Law.

She has also has an active pro bono practice, which includes representing Lloyd Properties in connection with the dedication of property in Ventura County, California, consulting on real estate matters in connection with two mergers of the Boys and Girls Clubs in Los Angeles and Orange County, and working for the 2024 Los Angeles Olympic Committee. Lauren also participated in a team that prepared a case file for Lawyers Without Borders, which culminated in a trip to Africa to train Kenyan lawyers on prosecuting elephant poachers.

Lauren earned her law degree in 2014 from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, where she was a submissions editor of the Southern California Law Review  and was elected to the Order of the Coif. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Cinematic Arts from the University of Southern California in 2011, graduating summa cum laude.

Lauren is admitted to practice law in the state of California.