Executive Team
Susan Hagerty Le May, Founder and Chairman
J. Mark Munoz, Senior Advisor
Dr. M. Ismaiel, Senior Advisor
Dan Steinway, Legal Counsel
Susan Hagerty Le May
Ms. Hagerty Le May’s professional career has spanned over thirty years and includes over twenty five years of financial services, including most categories of alternative investments. She leads investment evaluation and business development in the Gulf Cooperation Countries “GCC”. Susan worked in the Houston office of Lehman Brothers before joining the International Group at Lehman in New York, where she developed both a Latin American practice and subsequently, a GCC practice. She has assumed responsibility for developing new business with sovereign wealth funds, family offices, pension funds, royal families, endowments, merchant families and investment banks. Additionally, she has focused on buy-out and expansion capital transactions. She assumed responsibility for asset allocation planning, market research, manager searches, and due diligence. She is uniquely positioned to leverage resources of organizations seeking to enhance their branding and market share in strategic markets.
In conjunction with the private equity firms which she has represented, Susan together with those firms has supported and raised over one Billion USD in highly diversified private equity funds and direct transactions. These sectors have ranged from Indian Infrastructure Funds to Pan Asian Private Equity Real Estate Funds. She has become one of the most seasoned private equity placement agents with an emerging markets focus. Hagerty Le May has been a delegate at several senior level international summits, including the World Economic Forum (Davos) and the United Nations Development Program, where she has been a frequent speaker.
As Chairman of International Alliance Associates, Limited, an alternative investment placement agency and boutique, cross border market entry consulting firm, she provides the entrepreneurial focus and vision to progress the overall corporate agenda. She oversees market research, manager searches and due diligence. She plays a pivotal role in the investment selection process and determining the firm’s overall strategy. She also oversees investor relations and back office functions.
International Alliance is one of the pioneer alternative investment placement agents in the GCC. Ms. Hagerty Le May has over ten years of experience in growth and capital investment in emerging markets. She also has extensive experience representing multinational companies with challenging market entry dilemmas, into several emerging markets. Susan has published extensively on topics ranging from hedge funds to “Debt for Equity Swaps” in emerging markets.
She has also assumed responsibility for deal origination and placement. She has led the firm’s fundraising in healthcare services, infrastructure development, greenfield projects, media, manufacturing, and renewable energy. Of the twenty five years’ professional experience in the financial services sector, ten have been in private equity, seventeen in hedge funds, real estate and other alternative and traditional investments and eight have been in structuring and managing client portfolios. Having assimilated culturally, and advised clients in Germany, Spain, Latin America and Member Nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council, she is a polyglot familiar with numerous cultures. Her experience in foreign regulatory, investment issues, local economies and politics makes her an important conduit to successful business development in challenging markets. Ms. Hagerty Le May has spent over half of her life working and living in emerging markets.
J. Mark Munoz
J. Mark Munoz is a professor of International Business at the Millikin University in Illinois and former Visiting Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is a recipient of several awards, including three best research paper awards, a literary award, and Teaching Excellence Award. Aside from top-tier journal publications and book chapters, he has authored, co-authored and edited seven books: Land of My Birth, Winning Across Borders, In Transition, A Salesman in Asia, Handbook on Business Plan Creation, International Social Entrepreneurship and Contemporary Microenterprises : Concepts and Cases. He serves in seven international corporate and editorial boards. He is also the Chairman/CEO of international management consulting firm, Munoz and Associates International.
Dr. M. Ismaiel
Dr. M. Ismaiel is a prominent Middle Eastern academic and scholar and is steeped in geopolitical and cultural affairs. Dr. Ismaiel’s business development and relationship management, along with familiarity with the GCC Marketplace and managerial acumen provide a competitive edge to IAA throughout the Middle East. Dr. Ismail is Business Development Director for IAA and was previously the Director of the CEO Club of the United Arab Emirates.
Dan Steinway
Dan Steinway advises major corporate entities and trade organizations on all facets of civil and criminal environmental law. He provides representation in all aspects of environmental and health and safety (EH&S) litigation arising under federal and state statutes and common law causes of action. As part of his EH&S litigation practice, Mr. Steinway has managed the defense of multiparty litigations involving environmental and industrial hygiene issues and represented corporate defendants in a wide range of civil and criminal environmental and health and safety enforcement actions brought by both federal and state governmental agencies.
Alongside his EH&S litigation work, Mr. Steinway is actively involved in providing legislative/regulatory counseling to corporate clients, trade associations, business and professional organizations and various governmental entities on EH&S matters arising under international, federal, state and local laws and regulations. These matters include a broad range of federal and international legislative/statutory issues and directives relating to general environmental and occupational safety and hygiene, including but not limited to water pollution, solid and hazardous wastes, toxic substances and chemical use, management and handling, pesticides, renewable energy, biotechnology, endangered species, occupational standards and general EH&S management.
Mr. Steinway has been particularly active lately in a number of key federal energy/environmental legislative issues pending before the U.S. Congress, including issues relating to key aspects of climate change legislative proposals as well as substantial energy policy matters.
Finally, Mr. Steinway advises business entities on a broad range of EH&S matters arising in corporate transactions. His practice covers all aspects of the federal, state and local laws that may affect various types of corporate transactions including mergers, acquisitions and divestitures and the purchase and sale of real estate and industrial/commercial plant sites.
Mr. Steinway joined Baker Botts after serving as the chairman of the environmental practice group at Kelley Drye & Warren LLP for over ten years. He lectures at numerous conventions and seminars across the country and has authored many articles and chapters of legal treatises on EH&S matters. He is the monthly editor of the “Outside Perspective” environmental column for Corporate Counsel magazine and a contributing Washington editor for Pollution Engineering.