Knighthead Capital Management

Knighthead Capital Management

Founding Date
2008

Knighthead Capital Management is a diversified asset management platform specializing in fundamental analysis, operational and turnarounds, and risk management. Knighthead's long-term objective is to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns for its clients while emphasizing the preservation of capital. The firm focuses on long-short investments and specializes in event driven, distressed credit and special situation opportunities across a broad array of industries.

ABOUT KNIGHTHEAD

  • Knighthead is a specialized credit-focused, event-driven investment manager with strong roots in distressed credit and structured credit strategies.

  • Knighthead is known for capital preservation and using rigorous risk management in complex transaction scenarios.

  • The firm manages assets across a variety of investment vehicles including insurance asset management, real estate lending, and closed and open-ended vehicles.

  • The firm specializes in credit-driven, event-driven, and distressed investing, performing deep fundamental analysis on turnaround and special situation opportunities.


KNIGHTHEAD STRATEGIES

  • Insurance Asset Management. 

Knighthead’s expertise in managing insurance assets has matured organically, allowing them to tailor appropriate investment programs for both the direct and reinsurance business portfolios.

  • Closed-End Vehicles. 

The firm's closed-end vehicle platform is designed to give LP’s an opportunity to invest in special opportunities, market-wide dislocation, sector-wide dislocation, idiosyncratic opportunities, or increase exposure to high conviction long-only positions held in other vehicles.

  • Real Estate Lending. 

Knighthead Funding, LLC, together with its affiliates and funding entities  is a real estate finance company that specializes in originating and servicing commercial mortgage loans across the country.

  • Evergreen Vehicles. 

Knighthead Evergreen Vehicles focus on long-short credit investments specializing in event driven, distressed credit and other special situations across a broad array of industries.