Sean Fitzgerald

Mr. Fitzgerald is a Managing Director and Global Co-Head of Equity Capital Solutions in Houlihan Lokey’s Capital Solutions Group. He is responsible for equity origination, which entails providing customized equity capital solutions to the firm’s corporate and financial-sponsor-backed clients. Uses of proceeds include acquisition finance, organic growth capital, balance sheet recapitalization, and secondary shareholder liquidity. Mr. Fitzgerald is based in the firm’s New York office.

Before joining Houlihan Lokey, Mr. Fitzgerald spent more than a decade at Macquarie Capital, where he was a Managing Director and Co-Head of U.S. Private Capital Markets. In this role, he was responsible for originating, structuring, and syndicating a broad range of private capital financings, including pre-IPO growth capital, structured equity, PIPEs, and CMPOs, as well as mezzanine debt and investment-grade private debt placements. Prior to Macquarie, Mr. Fitzgerald spent more than a decade on the Private Capital Markets team at Lehman Brothers/Barclays Capital.

Mr. Fitzgerald holds a B.A. in Psychology from Yale University and an MBA from the Stern School of Business at New York University.