King Street Capital Management

King Street Capital Management

Founding Date
1995

King Street Capital Management is a privately owned global alternative asset manager overseeing more than $29 billion in assets across public and private markets. Known for its disciplined investment approach, King Street combines deep fundamental research, tactical trading expertise, and extensive global sourcing networks to uncover mispriced opportunities across asset classes, geographies, and the full capital structure. The firm’s investment platform spans several core strategies, including multi-strategy credit, drawdown vehicles focused on distressed, special situations, and event-driven opportunities, and a leading CLO management platform. King Street’s investment philosophy centers on delivering attractive risk-adjusted returns while maintaining a strong emphasis on capital preservation, downside protection, and opportunistic value creation.

ABOUT KING STREET


KING STREET STRATEGIES

  • Multi-Strategy Credit – Launched in 1995, King Street’s flagship multi-strategy credit platform manages roughly $9 billion across the capital structure. The strategy invests in public and private credit, special situations, stressed and distressed issuers, restructurings, and event-driven opportunities, leveraging the firm’s deep fundamental research.

  • Global Drawdown Strategy – Designed for longer-duration investments, this drawdown vehicle targets distressed, dislocation-driven, and complex restructuring opportunities including bankruptcies, claim-related investments, and structured credit situations emerging across global markets.

  • Tactical & Opportunistic Credit –This flexible global strategy invests across public and private credit markets—including investment-grade bonds, high-yield credit, syndicated loans, structured credit, asset-based lending, and rescue financings—taking advantage of rapidly evolving market conditions.

  • Real Estate Special Situations – Since launching its real estate platform in 2010, King Street has deployed more than $5.5 billion across 100+ direct real estate transactions globally. Investments span both equity and debt and include opportunities across the U.S. and Europe in sectors undergoing structural or cyclical change.

  • CLOs/CBOs Strategy – Through its Rockford Tower platform, King Street manages over $10 billion in structured credit vehicles. Since 2017, the firm has issued 18 U.S. CLOs, seven European CLOs, and one CBO, reinforcing its position as a leading manager in the CLO and structured credit market.