Sean McVity
Managing Partner
Garnet Capital Advisors, LLC
Sean McVity is a managing partner of Garnet Capital Advisors, LLC, a New-York-based financial-services firm providing in portfolio-sale and capital-raising advisory services in the distressed debt market. Sean manages Garnet’s Corporate Financial Advisory practice, and directs the firm’s international businesses San Juan-based Garnet Las Américas and Warsaw, Poland-based Garnet Polska, sp. z o.o.
Sean started his career on Wall Street at Credit Suisse First Boston in 1986, and entered the loan-trading market in 1990 when he moved to the Citicorp Corporate Loan Trading Desk. In 1991 Sean became a founding member of Meenan, McDevitt & Company, where he was a Managing Director and head of the firm’s Structuring and Sales Group. After MMC’s acquisition by Société Générale in 1998, he became head of SG’s Portfolio Sales Group. As a founding member of the Keefe, Bruyette & Woods loan sales group (2002-04), Sean was responsible for business development and led the development of a successful practice providing investment banking services to the debt-purchasing industry. A leading figure in the loan sales market, Sean has chaired numerous industry conferences, and has been published in the Journal of Lending and Credit Risk Management, Collections & Credit Risk, the Institutional Investor Bank Letter and other publications.