New office build in San Francisco for Farallon Capital Management
Farallon Capital Management was founded in 1986 and is based in San Francisco. It is an employee owned hedge fund sponsor. The firm primarily offers its services to institutions, typically endowments and foundations, high net worth individuals, other joint investment vehicles, as well as not-for-profit organisations.
It invests in the public equity, fixed income, and alternative investment markets across the globe. For the companies’ equity securities, it invests in value stocks. For its fixed income securities, the firm invests in companies experiencing financial distress or whose credit is poor but expected to improve, including companies experiencing a liquidity predicament, evasion on their debt obligations or filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
The firm usually invests in real estate, confidential equity, and private debt markets for its alternative investments. It employs a merger arbitrage and a special situation investing approach to make its investments. The firm primarily invests in companies undergoing or expected to undergo a merger, restructuring, recapitalisation and litigation event. It uses a combination of internal and external research to make its investments.
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