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Brian Higgins

Brian Higgins

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Brian

Brian Higgins is Co-Founder, Managing Partner, and Co-Portfolio Manager of King Street, a distressed-debt-focused hedge fund. He also serves as the Chair of its Management Committee, Global Investment Committee, and Real Estate Investment Committee as well as a Member of the Risk Committee and the Operating Committee. Prior to this, Higgins worked at First Boston in the Special Situations Fund and the Distressed Securities Group.

  • Higgins began his career in 1987 with First Boston’s Merchant Banking Group. 
  • He started King Street in 1995 with fellow billionaire Francis Biondi, whom he met on First Boston's high-yield desk in the late 1980s.