Southpaw Asset Management
2 Greenwich Office Park Ste 1, Greenwich, CT, 06831, United States
Overview
Southpaw is an Event Driven investment management firm focused on deep-value distressed and special situations opportunities. They employ an opportunistic, value oriented investment style that pursues all parts of the capital structure on both the long and short side. Howard Golden and Kevin Wyman co-founded Southpaw Asset Management LP in April 2005. The founders are supported by an institutional infrastructure comprised of seven investment professionals and a seasoned back office team. The two founders have a combined 30 years of extensive restructuring, commercial transaction, creditor committee and trading experience. Immediately prior to forming Southpaw in 2005, Mr. Golden and Mr. Wyman served as Managing Directors of Ramius Capital Group, LLC. During their five-year tenure at Ramius, they headed the RCG Carpathia Master Fund, Ltd. and related assets (the “Carpathia Funds“). The Carpathia Funds employed a Credit Opportunities / Distressed strategy with total assets under management in excess of $650 million.
- Total investments
- 1
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 0
Sector focus
- Asset Management
- Financial Services
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- Rant
Participated · Equity · Jun 2014
Rant Media Network is a creator and distributor of online sports, lifestyle and entertainment content. It owns and operates a network of opinionated sites including RantSports, RantLifestyle and RantChic. Across its sites the company leverages a network of more than 400 paid writers based in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Led by CEO Brett Rosin and based in Irvine, CA, the company serves male and female enthusiasts with targeted content. Rant Media Network closed $4m in financing in the most recent round and has now raised a total of $7.3m. The company intends to use the proceeds to further accelerate growth and expand its network.
Team
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