Scott A. Reilly

Scott has been engaged in mezzanine and structured equity investing for over thirty years, and has participated in over 200 closed investments.
Prior to co-founding Peninsula Capital Partners, he co-founded Northstar Capital, Ltd., and before that participated in the successful development of Churchill Capital, Inc. Mr. Reilly’s entrepreneurial and managerial efforts in connection with founding and growing Peninsula Capital Partners have earned him broad recognition, including being named Ernst & Young’s Financial Services Entrepreneur of the Year for the state of Michigan in 2000, and receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of Corporate Growth of Michigan in 2016.
During Mr. Reilly’s extensive career he has invested over $2 billion of mezzanine and structured equity capital in a broad array of industries and a wide variety of transactions, including leveraged buyouts, independent sponsor transactions, recapitalizations, buy-and-build strategies, growth financings, and equity repurchases.
Mr. Reilly is best known as the architect of Peninsula Capital’s pioneering and unique investment program which focuses on providing mezzanine capital to non- and independently-sponsored transactions, which has become the hallmark of the firm and the foundation of its success.
Mr. Reilly began his career in the corporate finance group of Security Pacific Merchant Bank, completing the bank’s credit and capital markets training program.
Mr. Reilly received a BBA in Economics Summa Cum Laude and Beta Gamma Sigma recognition from the University of North Dakota, and an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.
He is a member of the CFA Institute.
Mr. Reilly’s interests include fitness, reading, writing, fine arts and his family.