Sean Lacerte McKenna
Sean Lacerte McKenna is Head of New Business Development and Special Projects at ATLAS SP. Sean is responsible for overseeing the firm’s governance, compliance, operations and technology, as well as ensuring coordination across the platform to meet our investment and client needs. He serves as a member of the ATLAS SP Executive Committee.
Prior to ATLAS SP, Sean focused on business and product development, funding and hedging initiatives in the Securitized Products Group at Credit Suisse Before this, he served as Partner, General Counsel and COO at C12 Capital Management LP, the formation of which Sean led as a $14bn credit and macro fund carve-out from Barclays Bank in 2009. He has held various positions across trading, structuring and origination at Barclays, Lehman Brothers, and Deutsche Bank. At Barclays, Sean was a senior member of the mortgage trading desk that purchased over $55bn in assets from the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy estate. Sean began his career as a corporate, derivatives, securitization and restructuring lawyer at New York law firms Skadden Arps and Weil Gotshal.
Sean received his BA in Social Studies, magna cum laude, from Harvard College and his JD from University of Virginia School of Law.