Farallon Capital Management
Farallon Capital Management is a global institutional asset management firm that invests across strategies and asset classes. Founded in 1986, the firm specializes in multi-strategy hedge fund management, focusing on delivering superior risk-adjusted returns through a process of bottom-up fundamental analysis that emphasizes capital preservation. Farallon Capital manages capital for institutions, including college endowments, charitable foundations, pension plans and sovereign wealth funds, and high net worth individuals and family offices.
ABOUT FARALLON CAPITAL
Farallon Capital Management is a global and diversified hedge fund responding to changes in markets and the investment opportunity set.
Their ideas compete for capital based on in-depth, critical assessment of specific risks and rewards.
Headquartered in San Francisco, the firm has a global presence with offices in London, Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and São Paulo.
Farallon Capital has $39 billion in capital under management as of December 2024.
FARALLON CORE STRATEGIES
Their Credit strategy looks for attractive risk-return across all credit markets globally, in both public and private orientation.
Strategic Capital.
Farallon's Strategic Capital investments are typically private market transactions, ranging from equity to debt or exotic securities.
Long/Short Equity.
The firm invests in common stock that they believe is underpriced or overpriced relative to its intrinsic or fundamental value.
Merger Arbitrage.
Focused mainly on corporate takeovers. Each investment seeks to capture the spread between the current and projected values of securities of companies involved in a merger or acquisition.
Pursues generally illiquid investments in real estate-related assets, especially in cases where improvement of the asset, leasing and addition of management expertise can add value.
Generally consists of investments in publicly traded companies involving theoretical arbitrages often resulting from what Farallon sees as inefficiently priced trading markets.