Former Guggenheim Managing Director Bookin Joins Star Mountain Capital as Senior Advisor

Star Mountain Capital, a specialized investment manager, hired C. Shawn Bookin as senior advisor. Bookin has approximately 35 years of institutional investing experience spanning private credit, distressed debt, leveraged finance, private and public equity and investment banking, as well as in government service as a senior investment director for the Australian Trade Commission._x000D_
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“Having known Shawn for nearly a decade, we are honored to have him now join the team as an aligned senior advisor who brings complementary experiences, resources and relationships to assist with Star Mountain’s value-added investment strategies,” Brett Hickey, founder and CEO of Star Mountain Capital, said. “With his decades of credit investing experience at leading firms like Guggenheim, Shawn will be a tremendous resource to our team, investors and portfolio companies.”_x000D_
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“Over the many years I have followed Star Mountain’s growth and success, I am now looking forward to supporting the firm’s differentiated investment strategies providing institutional resources and capital to the large and fragmented lower middle-market,” Bookin said. “Star Mountain’s value-added investment strategies provide a unique opportunity for Star Mountain’s investors to get access to this large, fragmented and inefficient asset class that makes up nearly half of the U.S. economy.”_x000D_
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Bookin retired from Guggenheim Partners after a decade as a managing director in the corporate credit group based in New York City and Los Angeles. In his role, Bookin focused on the firm’s credit hedge fund and private credit strategies, as well as broadly syndicated loans and bonds._x000D_
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Prior to joining Guggenheim Partners, Bookin spent two years in the public sector, where he served as a senior investment director for the Australian Trade Commission, working for the federal government of Australia._x000D_
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Bookin was also formerly a managing director and co-portfolio manager at TCW Group for 12 years based in Los Angeles, where he helped manage the distressed investing group and also invested in private credit and high yield bonds._x000D_
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Earlier in his career, Bookin was an equity research analyst at Goldman Sachs and a vice president at Chanin Capital Partners, where he advised distressed companies and institutional investors on financial restructurings. He began his career in 1987 as an investment banker at Drexel Burnham Lambert in Los Angeles, focusing on M&A, LBOs and high yield financings._x000D_
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Bookin received a bachelor of arts in economics with honors from Harvard University, where he played on the Varsity Volleyball Team, and a master of applied finance degree from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.