Shane Sealy has joined Houlihan Lokey as a managing director in the Oil & Gas Group.

Sealy is based in Houston and is responsible for advising upstream companies on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, divestitures, restructurings, and capital markets transactions.

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, he 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.”