Marc J. Lane

Lane is one of the drafters of the Illinois legislation to allow low-profit limited liability companies, which took effect January 1, 2010.

Lane undertook an eight-year research project to determine how investment choices can be utilized to communicate clients' values, along with their money, to heirs. In 2003, Lane developed a new socially responsible investing approach, termed Advocacy Investing. In 2005, he published a book on the subject entitled Profitable Socially Responsible Investing? An Institutional Investor's Guide. Lane's investment strategy generated a result that beat the Russell 3000 benchmark by an annual return of 2.53% over the eight years ending December 31, 2003.

A book on corporate governance, Representing Corporate Officers and Directors, was published in 1987, and revised in 2005 and in 2010. His Advising Entrepreneurs: Dynamic Strategies for Financial Growth was published by Wiley in 2001.

Lane graduated from Northwestern University School of Law in 1971 and subsequently founded The Law Offices of Marc J. Lane. In 1985, he established his own NASD-licensed (now the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)-licensed) broker-dealer. By the year 2002, Marc J. Lane Wealth Group included The Law Offices of Marc J. Lane, an investment advisory, a broker-dealer and a merchant banking affiliate.

Marc J. Lane (born 1946) is an American attorney and businessman. He is also a founding partner of the Chicago chapter of the Social Enterprise Alliance, a network of philanthropy-minded investors. Lane was involved in creation of the legislation to allow low-profit limited liability companies in Illinois.