Meet The Team

Peter has over 20 years of institutional private credit and private equity experience, having led or co-led strategies for prominent investment firms.

Prior to founding Banyan Ridge, Peter was a Managing Director at a Miami-based investment firm with over $10 billion AUM, where he ran the Private Credit and Special Opportunities strategies. In this capacity, he focused on sourcing, structuring, executing and managing complex and unique direct lending and private equity opportunities that were frequently uncorrelated to market conditions and that were structured to generate significantly outsized returns relative to the overall risk profile. Prior to joining the Miami firm in 2018, Peter was a Director for Arena Investors, a global investment firm headquartered in NYC with over $4 billion AUM, focused on illiquid credit and special situations. In this role, he led numerous non-sponsored and sponsored direct lending investments across various industries and geographies. Prior to Arena, Peter was a Vice President in the credit fund at Comvest Partners, a private investment firm with over $15 billion AUM. Peter also worked for a middle market private equity firm and York Street Capital Partners, an investment firm focused on private debt and equity investments. Earlier in his career, he was an investment banker in the Leveraged Finance group at Morgan Stanley in New York.

Peter graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in International Relations with a Cluster in Business Studies from the Wharton School.

Stephen has over 15 years of litigation finance, private credit and public credit market experience.

Throughout his career, Stephen has led bespoke, off-balance sheet transactions designed to unlock value in esoteric corporate legal claims (often originating from distressed situations, intellectual property or anti-competitive industry behavior). Prior to founding Banyan Ridge, Stephen was a Director and Head of Structuring at Brickell Key Asset Management, a Miami-based investment fund with approximately $400 million AUM. Previously, Stephen was an analyst in the Securities Division at Goldman Sachs & Co. where he focused on U.S. and European Microstructure and related principal investments.

Stephen is a graduate of Harvard Law School, the University of Oxford (MA Oxon) and Georgetown University (Magna Cum Laude). He is a member of both the New York and Washington D.C. Bar Associations.

Daniel has over six years of litigation finance experience with a focus on law firm lending, single case financings and wrapped portfolio transactions. Prior to Banyan Ridge, Daniel was the Director of Underwriting for a South-Florida based litigation finance firm, with a special focus on single-event and multidistrict litigation (MDL) claims. In this capacity, he focused on sourcing, underwriting and structuring credit facilities for law firms across the U.S. Daniel has deployed over $250 million through various credit facilities ranging in focus from commercial matters and antitrust claims to intellectual property claims, with a focus on equity-like returns.

Daniel is a graduate of the University of Miami (B.B.A. in Finance) and the University of Miami School of Law (Magna Cum Laude). At the University of Miami School of Law, he was an editor for the University of Miami Law Review, a member of the Order of the Coif and placed in the top three of various national bankruptcy moot court competitions. He is a member of the Florida Bar.

Sampson is a Vice President at Banyan Ridge and focuses on investment underwriting, origination, execution and post-closing initiatives. Prior to joining Banyan Ridge, Sampson worked at Deerpath Capital Management and a Miami-based investment firm, where he focused on underwriting and executing investments across the capital structure in both private equity and private credit. He began his career as a coverage banker at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey in New York.

Sampson holds a B.A. in Economics from Cornell University.