Ex-Guggenheim MD joins Star Mountain as senior advisor

Star Mountain Capital has appointed former Guggenheim Partners managing director C. Shawn Bookin as a senior advisor.

Bookin retired from Guggenheim after a decade spent as a managing director in the firm’s corporate credit group. In this role, he focused on the firm’s credit hedge fund and private credit strategies, as well as broadly syndicated loans and bonds.

Prior to joining Guggenheim, Bookin spent two years in the public sector where he was a senior investment director for the Australian Trade Commission.

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“Having known Shawn for nearly a decade, we are honoured 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,” said Brett Hickey, Star Mountain Capital’s founder and chief executive.

“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.”

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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,” added Bookin.

“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 US economy.”

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