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M. Steven Liff is a senior managing director with Sun Capital Partners Inc. He is a member of the firm’s investment committee and heads the North American transaction team, overseeing offices in Boca Raton, Florida; Los Angeles; and New York. Before joining Sun Capital in 2000, he was with NationsBank and Bank of America Commercial […]

Steven Migliero is co-CEO of Crystal Financial. Previously he was a senior managing director responsible for leading the firm’s originations team in sourcing and structuring new investments. Migliero has more than 20 years of experience working with middle-market companies and private equity sponsors as a cash flow and asset-based lender. Before joining Crystal, he was […]

Casey Swercheck is a director of Capitala Investment Advisors in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He joined the firm in 2013. Previously, he worked for Hamilton Lane Advisors, where he focused on the investment activities of the Florida Growth Fund and was a member of that firm’s fund investment team. Swercheck holds a bachelor’s degree in finance […]

Randall Fontes is a director of Capitala Investment Advisors in Atlanta. He joined the firm in 2013. Previously, Fontes was co-founder of a finance company formed in partnership with a $55 billion asset manager focused on middle-market debt and equity investments. Before that, he was a director with Cortview Securities LLC and a principal with Atalaya Capital […]

Peter Sherman is chief risk officer of Capitala Group and serves on the firm’s investment committee of select strategies. He oversees the assessment and management of risk within the firm’s credit and equity portfolios. Before joining the firm full-time this year, Sherman served in a regular consultative and advisory role for the investment committee and […]

David A. Agay is managing member of the McDonald Hopkins’ Chicago office and a member of the firm’s Board of Directors, and he leads the Business Restructuring Services Group in Chicago. He represents public and private companies, strategic and financial investors, directors, officers, lenders, committees, and shareholders in a variety of distress and nondistress engagements. […]

Shara C. Cornell is an associate in McDonald Hopkins’ Business Restructuring Services Department in Chicago. She has six years of experience representing secured and unsecured creditors in restructuring and bankruptcy proceedings, including large Chapter 11s. Cornell served as staff law clerk and law clerk to the Hon. LaShonda A. Hunt and Chief Judge Bruce W. […]

Jonathan D. Marshall is counsel in Choate’s Finance & Restructuring group, where he advises financial institutions in a range of complex financial transactions, with a concentration on corporate restructurings and loan workouts. He specializes in advising lenders, troubled companies, and other strategic parties in both in- and out-of-court restructurings. Marshall has advocated for lenders and […]

Kevin Griffin is CEO and CIO of MGG Investment Group, which he founded in 2014. During his 18-year career, he has originated and invested more than $3 billion across the capital structure of middle market businesses, including distressed and Section 363 bankruptcy purchases, with a focus on capital preservation and protecting rights in bankruptcy. Griffin […]

The Hon. Edward T. Wahl was appointed Hennepin County District Judge, Minnesota, in 2012 and elected in 2014. He served on the committee that drafted the current Minnesota statute on receiverships. Wahl was previously a partner with Faegre Baker Daniels and before that with Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP. He holds a law degree from […]