F Clayton Miller

Bio

Mr. Miller has over 20 years of private equity investing and legal experience, investing in, managing, structuring and executing both public and private M&A and capital market transactions throughout the United States and internationally. Prior to forming Stone Arch Capital, Mr. Miller was the Managing Partner of Minneapolis, Minnesota based Churchill Equity Partners ("CEP"), the private equity arm of Churchill Capital, Inc. While at CEP, he invested in a broad range of industries in traditional leveraged buyout and platform buy-and-build transactions in the middle market and was responsible for managing over $400 million of committed capital. Prior to joining CEP, Mr. Miller spent several years with SCF Partners, a Houston, Texas based private equity firm focused on the energy services market. While at SCF Partners, Mr. Miller participated in numerous similar transactions in the energy services industry throughout North America. Prior to his tenure at SCF Partners, Mr. Miller was a corporate M&A attorney with Shearman & Sterling, structuring , executing and advising on a broad range of acquisitions, divestitures and capital raising transactions in New York and London. Mr. Miller currently serves on the Board of Directors at FirstCity Financial Corporation, a publicly traded distressed asset management company. He is a frequent speaker on private equity and related topics and active in community volunteer activities. Mr. Miller is a graduate of the University of Michigan (B.A.), Northwestern University School of Law (J.D., cum laude), and Harvard University (M.B.A., with honors). He is licensed to practice law in New York.