Brigade Capital

Brigade Capital Management, LP, more commonly referred to as Brigade Capital, is a global alternative investment manager specializing in credit investment strategies. The firm employs a multi-strategy, multi-asset class investment approach focused on leveraged balance sheets and manages core strategies across long/short credit, distressed debt, capital structure arbitrage, long/short equities and structured credit.[1] The hedge fund invests primarily in the retail, media, telecommunications, healthcare, finance, utilities and energy sectors with particular expertise in distressed securities, bankruptcy and reorganization.[2]

Brigade Capital Management, LP
TypePrivate
IndustryPrivate Equity, Hedge Fund
Founded2006
HeadquartersNew York City, USA
London, UK
Tokyo, Japan
Sydney, Australia
Key people
Karl Franklin Dasher, CEO
Donald E. Morgan III, CFA
ProductsLeveraged buyout, Distressed securities, Growth capital
Total assets$25 billion
Websitewww.brigadecapital.com

History

Founded in 2006 by Patrick W. Kelly and Donald E. Morgan III, the firm is headquartered in New York City with offices in London, Tokyo and Sydney.[3][4][5] In March 2017, Brigade Capital won Firm of the Year from Absolute Return Awards, an award given to the world’s best-performing hedge funds.[6][7]

In 2017, the hedge fund was allegedly defrauded by Craig Carton of WFAN (AM) along with co-conspirators Michael Wright and Joseph Meli, who reportedly ran a Ponzi scheme falsely claiming access to millions of dollars of concert tickets at face value through non-existent agreements with concert promoters.[6][7]

On August 17, 2020 Citigroup Inc. filed a lawsuit against [8] Brigade Capital Management LP, seeking the return of the hedge-fund manager’s share of nearly $900 million payment that Citi said it paid by mistake to Revlon Inc. lenders. Brigade “has unlawfully attempted to capitalize on the mistaken payment,” Citi said in the complaint, filed in New York federal court. The payments were related to loans made to Revlon by various private lenders.

The lenders to Revlon, Brigade Capital Management and HPS Investment Partners, received the funds from Citigroup. The companies are seeking a court order forcing the return of collateral by Revlon. Citigroup, the administrative agent on the loan, was also named as a defendant in the lawsuit by the firms, although the company was in the process of resigning from the agent role.

Brigade and other lenders have taken the position that they aren’t obligated to return the money, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday.[9] The money is not expected to be returned willingly since the companies are locked in the lawsuit.


References
  1. Keller, Laura (10 January 2017). "Brigade Capital Said to Return 23% in 2016 as Credit Roars Back". Bloomberg. Retrieved 19 October 2017.
  2. Herbst-Bayliss, Svea (22 December 2015). "Hedge fund Brigade's credit fund suffers fresh losses in November". Reuters. Retrieved 19 October 2017.
  3. McDonald, Duff (4 September 2007). "The Running of the Hedgehogs". New York. Retrieved 19 October 2017.
  4. Levy, Rachael (17 March 2017). "'I think it benefits everybody': Hedge fund managers are cheering Trump". Business Insider. Retrieved 19 October 2017.
  5. "'Brigade Capital Management". Retrieved 19 October 2017.
  6. Dickey, Jack (6 September 2015). "WFAN Host Craig Carton Allegedly Defrauded New York-Based Brigade Capital Management". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved 19 October 2017.
  7. Brooks, Dave (11 September 2015). "SEC Scrutinizes $2 Million Wire Transfer Between WFAN's Craig Carton, Hedge Fund and Barclays Center". Billboard. Retrieved 19 October 2017.
  8. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/citi-900-million-blunder-raises-001242255.html
  9. https://www.wsj.com/articles/citi-sues-revlon-lender-brigade-seeks-return-of-mistaken-payment-11597694604?mod=mw_quote_news


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