Lucy Forlastro

Lucy Forlastro is an Associate on Accordion’s Internal Finance & Strategy team with more than one year of experience in investment banking, particularly with a background in company valuation, financial modeling, capital markets, and strategic advisory.

Prior to joining Accordion, Lucy was an Investment Banking Analyst in the Communications, Media & Entertainment group at RBC Capital Markets in New York. In this role, she supported M&A and financing transactions and worked closely with senior bankers and clients to develop financial analyses and strategic marketing materials. Her experience included discounted cash flow, leveraged buyout, precedent transaction, comparable company, and sum-of-the-parts analyses, as well as customized client presentations addressing market trends, capital markets conditions, capital allocation, and other strategic considerations. Her transaction experience included supporting a lead-left inaugural leveraged financing for a private equity-backed engineering software and information services company, consisting of a $725 million Term Loan B and a $95 million revolving credit facility.

At RBC, Lucy worked across the information services, SaaS, advertising technology, digital media, traditional media, and communications infrastructure sectors. Prior to RBC, she gained experience across both investing and corporate finance through the Girls Who Invest Summer Intensive Program, which included coursework at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania followed by a venture capital internship at StepStone Group, and through an FP&A internship at Kellogg Company.

Lucy earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Central Michigan University, graduating with double majors in Finance and Accounting. She was named the College of Business Administration’s 2025 Student of the Year, an honor awarded annually to the top graduating senior, and received the university’s 2025 President’s Award for Undergraduate Research and Creative Accomplishments. Lucy was also a Centralis Scholar, receiving Central Michigan University’s highest academic merit scholarship.