Andy Mitchell
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Mr. Mitchell brings over 18 years of investment management, financial advisory, capital markets and restructuring experience. His professional investment and advisory experience includes Cerberus Capital Management, Centerbridge Partners, Ally Financial’s Global Special Assets Group, Houlihan Lokey’s and PricewaterhouseCoopers’ restructuring groups.
Prior to joining Lantern, Mr. Mitchell led Ally Financial’s Global Special Assets Group (SAG) and served as President of the Business Capital Group, including non-performing portfolios in the United States, Canada, Mexico and the United Kingdom. The business units managed by SAG represented the legacy operations of GMAC/ResCap that provided a range of debt and equity capital. During Mr. Mitchell’s tenure these divisions managed, restructured and disposed of more than 300 investments including approximately $5 billion of debt and equity assets. As part of Ally’s transformation to a bank holding company, Mr. Mitchell led the creation of the SAG and policies related to the management of special assets and watch-list credits. He also chaired Ally’s Special Assets Group Risk Management Committee and worked with the Federal Reserve and other regulators on related compliance issues.
Mr. Mitchell joined Ally from Cerberus Capital Management where he focused on originating and managing distressed or opportunistic investments across the entire capital structure, including both debt and equity.
He also worked for the financial restructuring group of Houlihan Lokey and PricewaterhouseCoopers as financial and operations advisor (including interim management) to middle market companies both in and out of court.
Mr. Mitchell has led and assisted in numerous major and middle market transactions across a variety of industries including: complex restructurings, recapitalizations, private placements, distressed mergers and acquisitions and valuations of distressed and healthy companies. He has been a speaker on restructuring topics at several conferences and universities.
Mr. Mitchell has a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a double major in finance and accounting from Texas Christian University.