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Benedicte Gravrand, Geneva: Richard Hurowitz, Octavian Advisors’s co-founder, talked to Opalesque about the company’ specialist knowledge base and how it benefits from today’s market conditions.
About Octavian Advisors, LP
A couple of years ago, Richard Hurowitz and Gregory Racz launched Octavian Advisors, LP in New York, together with private investment firm Reservoir Capital Group as partners. Reservoir committed $100 million to Octavian from investment funds Reservoir managed. Octavian exclusively managed the assets of Reservoir and related entities initially. The fund since opened to outside investment – but it is now closed after being oversubscribed last summer. It currently manages over $1.1 billion.
Octavian employs a global special situations strategy, investing primarily outside the U.S. in event-driven, risk arbitrage, and distressed opportunities, as well as in structured, proprietary, and private instruments and transactions.
Before co-founding Octavian, Mr. Hurowitz was a partner and managing principal of Halcyon Asset Management LLC and Mr. Racz was an attorney at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where he advised on M&A matters. Kevin Griffin, a former managing director at Fortress Investment Group, joined Octavian Advisors in July 2007 and earlier this month, Arif Gangat joined as managing director from Southpaw Asset Management and Oscar Mockridge joined as dir...................... To view our full article Click here
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