Lily provides strategic advisory expertise to law firm leaders and has driven optimization initiatives for several AmLaw 50 firms. Her experience spans strategy, operations, positioning, marketing, and business development. Lily also provides strategic communications support to companies across a broad range of industries involved in special situations, including chapter 11 filings, liability management exercises, litigation, and leadership transitions.

Prior to joining C Street, Lily worked at Hunt Scanlon Media, where she served as Managing Editor. She wrote and spearheaded Hunt Scanlon’s line of key industry studies and managed 250+ human capital clients. Her earlier professional experience includes Partnership Manager for pet food company Spot & Tango, and consulting for two venture-backed startups, IFIVEO and Lev.

Lily holds a BA Cum Laude in English modified with Russian Literature with a minor in Anthropology from Dartmouth College.

Recent Publications

Communicating LMEs: Impacts of the Serta Decision for Future Transactions

In a unanimous decision issued on December 31, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed the bankruptcy court’s ruling on the permissibility of Serta Simmons’ 2020 liability management exercise (LME), stating that the uptier transaction did not constitute an “open market purchase” and therefore was a violation of the company’s credit agreement. This decision forced companies, sponsors, and lenders to […]

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