Shane Sealy Joins the Firm as a
Managing Director in Houston
HOUSTON — February 26, 2020 —
Houlihan Lokey (NYSE:HLI), the global investment bank, announced today that Shane
Sealy has joined the firm as a Managing Director in the Oil & Gas Group.
Mr. Sealy is based in Houston and is responsible for advising upstream companies
on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, divestitures, restructurings, and
capital markets transactions.
Mr. Sealy joins Houlihan Lokey with
more than 16 years of domestic and international oil and gas advisory
experience. Most recently, he was with Intrepid Financial Partners, where he
was a Managing Director responsible for coverage of upstream clients. Prior to
Intrepid, Mr. Sealy was a Managing Director at Evercore, where he established
the firm’s Asia oil and gas advisory business and executed upstream
transactions for clients across the region and in the U.S. He has also held
roles at Scotiabank and Navigant Consulting. Over the course of his career, Mr.
Sealy has advised on more than $75 billion of oil and gas asset acquisition and
divestiture, corporate M&A, restructuring, and capital-raising
transactions.
“Shane exemplifies two key elements
of Houlihan Lokey’s Oil & Gas Group: an outstanding breadth of advisory
expertise in nearly every type of situation or market condition and the ability
to deliver superior results for upstream clients in any region around the world,”
said J.P. Hanson, Head of the Oil & Gas Group. “We are confident that both
our clients and our global platform will benefit tremendously from Shane’s
experience, and we’re thrilled that he has joined the firm.”
“I’m delighted to join one of the
largest energy teams in financial services and help provide our upstream
clients with a full suite of advisory services across all of Houlihan Lokey’s
businesses, including corporate finance, restructuring, and valuation and other
advisory services. The opportunities and challenges in the oil and gas sector
require a unique blend of sector knowledge, execution expertise, and a
genuinely global footprint, and I’m excited to add my experience to that
service offering and deliver the independent, best-in-class advice for which
the firm is known,” said Mr. Sealy.
Mr. Sealy holds a B.B.A. in Finance with
honors from the University of Texas at Austin.
With more than 60 investment bankers located in
six offices around the world, Houlihan Lokey’s Energy Group provides superior
service and achieves outstanding results for its clients in M&A and A&D
advisory, capital raising, and restructuring as well as financial and board
advisory services. The group employs a dedicated subsector-specific model to
cover the entire energy spectrum, with experienced senior-level bankers
dedicated to each sector coverage area across eight energy sectors.