Lantern Capital Partners Team

Andy Mitchell is the Founder, CEO and Managing Partner of Lantern Capital Partners. Mr. Mitchell brings over twenty 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. He serves on several boards including, among others, American Zinc Recycling (specialty zinc business), Goodbulk, Ltd (shipping and transportation), Lantern Entertainment (media and entertainment) and Bluejack National (hospitality). Prior to joining Lantern, Mr. Mitchell led Ally Financial’s Global Special Assets Group (SAG) and served as President of the Business Capital Group, where he led the turnaround and management of non-performing portfolios in the United States, Canada, Mexico and the United Kingdom. During Mr. Mitchell’s tenure, these divisions managed more than 300 investments including approximately $5 billion of debt and equity positions. 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 SAG Investment 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 and is a member of the Turnaround Management Association. Mr. Mitchell has a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a double major in finance and accounting from TCU. He lives with his wife Kristin and five children in Dallas, Texas.