Shawn Munday

Vice President of Global Mergers and Acquisitions, Sonoco

Shawn Munday is Vice President of Global Mergers and Acquisitions at Sonoco. Before joining Sonoco in 2022, he was professor of the practice of finance and executive director of the Institute for Private Capital at UNC Kenan-Flagler. Professor Munday was formerly a managing director in the alternative assets group at Citigroup where he advised and financed alternative asset managers on over $75 billion of transactions including leveraged buyouts, dividend recapitalizations, bolt-on acquisitions, IPOs and divestitures. Prior to Citigroup, he served as a commissioned submarine officer in the U.S. Navy. He received his MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler and a BS in electrical engineering from the United States Naval Academy.

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Performance Analysis and Attribution with Alternative Investments

This white paper provides a summary of existing methods and current research on performance analysis and attribution for complex portfolios that include investments such as hedge funds and private investment funds. We summarize the main challenges of analyzing portfolios with illiquid assets and provide updated analysis for several important asset classes.
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Capital Structure and Leverage in Private Equity Buyouts

A new study designed to shed light on the various kinds of debt now used to finance buyout transactions, and to provide some current insights on the profitability and leverage of such transactions using newly available data. Authors: Greg Brown (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Robert Harris (University of Virginia), and Shawn Munday (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).
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Performance of Private Credit Funds: A First Look

Although private credit funds have rapidly grown into a standalone asset class over the last decade, little is known about the aggregate performance of these funds. To provide a first look at absolute and relative performance, we utilize the Burgiss database of 476 private credit funds with nearly $480 billion in committed capital, including a subset of 155 direct lending funds.
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