Shealyn M. McGuire, Esq.

Shealyn McGuire has more than 17 years of financial services industry experience.  Her engagements as both a management consultant and a compliance consultant have included working with private/trust banking firms, insurance/retirement firms, mutual fund companies, registered investment advisors (RIAs), and hedge fund firms.  Her focus within these firms has been on asset management, product development, compliance, operations, marketing and sales.  Shealyn is also a subject matter expert on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) compliance, and works with general counsel and compliance professionals to create and enhance their existing international compliance infrastructures.

Most recently as a compliance consultant with Navigant Consulting, Shealyn: (i) reviewed and determined the effectiveness of the compliance program of a Fortune 50 sub-advisor to a hedge fund of funds; (ii) evaluated the integration potential for a regional Southwestern bank SMA platform and a mutual fund wrap platform acquisition; (iii) managed and performed a 38(a)-1 compliance review for the insurance division (life insurance, annuities and group insurance) of a Fortune 50 financial services company; (iv) assessed state banking compliance efforts of a California-chartered bank; (v) advised a large hedge fund with respect to its overall compliance program; (vi) performed a high level review of a Fortune 50 service provider compliance program; (vii) tested the effectiveness of the AML program of an Investment Bank/Broker Dealer; (viii) performed a high level review of a boutique Investment Bank/Broker Dealer compliance program; (ix) Advised Fortune 50 Retirement Services firm with respect to various marketing review compliance and process challenges; and (x) worked along side the General Counsel and Anti-Corruption Leader of a Fortune 50 multi-national financial services firm to review, made recommendations for and helped implement/enhance their global Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) Compliance program.

Prior to joining Navigant, Shealyn worked as an independent consultant with Financial Research Corporation (FRC), as co-author of the 175-page FRC study, "Entering the World of Hedge Funds:  Opportunities and Obstacles in Targeting the Affluent" published July, 2002.  She also co-authored the FRC whitepaper, "Principal Protection: Assets Moving Down-Market" released in September, 2002.   She coordinated and wrote the manual for the hedge fund industry’s first Anti-Money Laundering (AML) conference for HedgeWorld in 2004.  Shealyn was also engaged as a consultant by one of the country’s largest insurance firms to evaluate the potential of manufacturing institutional-level principal protected and other alternative products.

In 2004, Shealyn worked with a start-up hedge fund firm in New Jersey building two 3(c)(7) domestic funds of funds, advising on the company’s compliance program, and assisting with operations and administration. Shealyn served as Secretary of the company’s Investment Committee, working directly with the CIO/portfolio manager to perform due diligence on underlying hedge funds.

Before her work in hedge funds, Shealyn was a Consultant for Cerulli Associates, Inc., a Boston-based consulting firm that designs and implements products and strategies for financial industry manufacturing and distribution channels.  While at Cerulli Associates, she was the sole author of the 273-page report, “Trends among U.S. High Net Worth Providers”, a qualitative and quantitative study of the various financial distribution channels focusing on high net worth target markets.  Prior to Cerulli, she was a Vice President and Trust Officer with Congress Trust, a contract attorney for Mellon Private Asset Management, and held business development positions at Liberty Financial and State Street Bank.

She has been asked to speak on these topics in both the U.S. and Canada for financial institutions looking to enter the HNW and Hedge Fund markets.  In December, 2002, she was the moderator of a panel on Principal Protection/Registered Hedge Funds at FRC's annual conference, “Market Trends.”  In January, 2003, Shealyn served as the Chairperson of Financial Research Associates’ Principal Protection conference in Boston, MA.  In June, 2003, she served as FRA’s Chairperson of the Registered Hedge Fund and Structured Products conference in New York.  She was asked to return as Chairperson of FRA’s December, 2003 conference in New York covering Hedge Funds and Structured Products, as well as Co-Chair various other FRA conferences in 2004 covering Investment Advisors and Compliance.

A graduate of both the University of Notre Dame, and Suffolk University Law School, Shealyn has been quoted extensively in the financial media including: the Wall Street Journal; the Financial Times; the Boston Globe; the Boston Herald; the Providence Journal; the Los Angeles Times; Investment News; American Banker; HedgeWorld; OnWall Street; Wall Street Letter; the Daily Deal; Financial Planning; Investment News; CBS MarketWatch; Private Asset Management; Ticker Magazine; and FundFire, and well as various Reuters, Knight Ridder and Dow Jones publications.