Lori Forlano JD

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Biography

Ms. Lori Forlano serves as Managing Director, General Counsel & Chief Administrative Officer at Lightyear Capital. She manages the Finance, Legal, and Operations team at Lightyear and is responsible for the day-to-day operations of Lightyear and the management of its investment funds, including business and legal issues, financial reporting, portfolio company monitoring, investor relations, and internal issues. Prior to joining Lightyear in 2005, Ms. Forlano worked at Context Capital Management, a convertible arbitrage hedge fund where she was a Managing Director of Business and Legal Affairs. Previously, Ms. Forlano was an attorney for private equity and hedge funds at Morgan Stanley. Prior to working at Morgan Stanley, Ms. Forlano was an Associate in the mergers and acquisitions department at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. Ms. Forlano holds a B.A. in English Language and Literature/Letters from Dartmouth College, Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude, a master's degree from Columbia University, and a J.D. from New York University School of Law, where she was a member of the Law Review.