Lauren Roberta Caplan

Lauren has been providing legal and strategic counsel to mission-driven organizations, companies, and funders for over twenty years, helping build the structure, capacity, and resources to tackle the toughest challenges. From her early days leading a nonprofit dedicated to breaking the link between poverty and poor health for children and families, and then working in the U.S. Senate, Lauren has been drawn to the solutions that emerge when you look across sectors and bring unlikely partners to the table. That instinct has shaped her entire career.

As in-house counsel at a wide range of mission-driven organizations from Yale University and Commonfund, to clean energy start-ups and hybrid social enterprises, Lauren has navigated tricky governance challenges, complex capital structures, and shifting regulatory environments firsthand. Her deep experience in investment management — structuring and advising on alternative investment vehicles, working alongside fund managers and institutional investors — allows her to advise on creative capital structures that mission-driven organizations increasingly rely on. That's the experience she brings to every engagement: practical, grounded counsel that works in the real world.

​​​​​​​​Thought Leadership

Lauren writes and speaks on impact finance and risk management, teaches at Yale School of Management on innovating within uncertain regulatory climates, and serves on the Board of Common Ground in New Haven, CT.

Education

JD, Georgetown University Law Center

AB, Harvard College

Admissions

Connecticut

New York