Lauren Rich is a Managing Director and Co-Head of Strategic Partnerships and serves on Wafra’s Management Committee. Ms. Rich helps lead Wafra’s strategic partnership investment mandates in both next generation and established asset management businesses. While at Wafra, Ms. Rich has completed several direct minority investments in alternative asset management firms, GP financings, secondary private equity investments as well as investments within closed end funds.

Previously, Ms. Rich was an Associate with Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York, where she advised clients on a broad range of financing transactions.

Ms. Rich earned a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and a JD from New York University School of Law.