Ian Mackay has joined BlackArch Partners as managing director. He will serve as head of BlackArch’s Financial Sponsors Group focusing on middle market private equity groups and family offices.

Mackay has 20 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, capital raising, real estate leasing, and senior/junior debt financing.

Prior to joining BlackArch, Mackay was a founding member of the Financial Sponsors Group at Raymond James and spent 12 years contributing to the significant growth of the firm. Previously, he spent eight years at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey where he served in a variety of corporate finance and investment banking roles.

BlackArch Partners is a middle-market investment bank offering services to financial sponsors, private companies and diversified corporations.