Christopher Plunkett

Water Island Capital specializes in event-driven investing and executes its capabilities within a merger arbitrage framework and a special situations framework. The firm employs a fundamental research process, conducting bottom-up analysis of each event opportunity by assessing the strategic rationale, risk/reward, trading dynamics, shareholder registry, regulatory requirements, industry trends and other idiosyncratic factors that are instrumental in the successful outcome of each corporate event.

Marathon focuses on investing in the global credit and fixed income markets. Credit selection is based on their bottom-up fundamental research, capital structure and situational expertise. They pursue a highly integrated, research-intensive approach utilizing synergies across their platform.

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