Brownstein Elevates Alicia Priego and Lauren Schwartz

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck is pleased to announce two additional elevations effective Jan. 1, 2025. Alicia Priego was elevated to policy director, and Lauren Schwartz was elevated to shareholder. 

Priego combines her experience working in the California State Legislature and in-house with energy companies to advise clients on policy issues. She serves as a trusted consultant to clients ranging from Fortune 500 corporations to nonprofit organizations. Her work includes helping clients navigate emerging opportunities such as voluntary carbon markets, community choice aggregation and how to provide clean energy for residents and businesses at competitive rates. 

With significant experience navigating complex debt finance matters, Schwartz provides trusted representation to a wide range of clients. Her work covers the full scope of middle market commercial debt transactions. This includes acquisition financing, first lien/second lien structures, asset-based credit facilities and debtor-in-possession arrangements. In her lending practice, she represents traditional banks and direct lenders in their capacities as the sole lender, lead agent or syndicate lender. On the borrower side, she has experience working with equity sponsors and businesses at every stage of their development.

At  Brownstein, clients receive access to the top legal minds in the industry, powerful policy knowledge and best-in-class business acumen to solve businesses’ toughest challenges. Brownstein is a law and lobbying firm that has been making moves for more than 50 years to stay at the vanguard of its industry. The firm is at the heart of many of the most important cases, the most significant deals and the country’s most pivotal legislation. At Brownstein—we’re all in.