Michael J. Smith

CenterGate Capital LP (CenterGate Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2014 by Stenning Schueppert. The firm is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Five Points Capital, LLC.(Five Points Capital) is a private equity and subordinated debt investment firm founded in 1997. The firm headquartered in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The firm is a subsidiary of BB&T Corp. (NYSE: BBT).

Lazard Group LLC provides financial advisory, asset management, and other financial services. The firm offers services related to mergers and acquisitions, strategic advisory, middle market advisory, capital markets and capital structure advisory, sovereign advisory, restructuring, and private fund advisory. The company was founded in 1840 and is headquartered in New York, NY.