Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Event-driven hedge funds worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,054 event-driven hedge funds worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 12,256 professional contacts across them, including 6,573 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and New York the largest hub.
This list covers event-driven hedge funds worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026. Country and city lists for event-driven hedge funds follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest event-driven hedge funds worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 1,716 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Oaktree is a leader among global investment managers specializing in alternative investments, with $223 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2025.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 937 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1988, Schonfeld is a multi-strategy, multi-manager hedge fund with an investing footprint that spans five continents.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 722 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Verition Fund Management LLC (“Verition”) is a multi-strategy, multi-manager hedge fund founded in 2008.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 381 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We dynamically pursue opportunities, creating value in everything we do.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 310 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Magnetar Capital is a leading alternative asset manager with offices in Evanston, Ill, New York and London.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 241 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “King Street Capital Management, L.P.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 221 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1990, Canyon employs a deep value, credit intensive approach across public and private corporate credit, structured credit, and direct real estate lending and investing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 192 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cheyne Capital is a London-based alternative investment fund manager which was founded in by Jonathan Lourie (CEO & CIO) and Stuart Fiertz (President) after working together at…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 150 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For over 30 years, Weiss Asset Management has developed proprietary value-based investment strategies designed to deliver high risk-adjusted returns to our investors, who include…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 149 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Lone Star is a leading investment firm with its principal office in London, UK advising funds that invest globally in private equity, credit and real estate.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 131 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Kennedy Lewis Investment Management is an opportunistic credit manager focusing on event-driven situations in which a catalyst may unlock investment value.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 102 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “CIAM is an investment management firm that uses equity-based investment strategies to generate returns from its global approach to corporate events, focused on special situations…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 100 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Holocene Advisors, LP (“Holocene”) is an investment management firm that pursues a sector-diversified long/short equity strategy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 99 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Corbets Capital is a unique combination of top investment talent, world class infrastructure, and a collaborative culture.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 96 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since launching in 2018, Ashler Capital has rapidly scaled to become a cornerstone equities business at the firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “GP Investments is a leading alternative investment firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 79 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Taconic Capital is an alternative investment manager that specializes in finding opportunity in market complexity, dislocation and inefficiency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 68 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Polus Capital Management (“Polus”) is an investment management firm specialising in alternative credit strategies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 68 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Bardin Hill is an institutional investment firm with core competencies in public and private credit, collateralized loan obligations, and event-driven strategies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 66 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Columbia Pacific Advisors, LLC (CPA) and its affiliates manage a variety of alternative investment strategies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 66 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Oxy Capital is a leading alternative asset management firm, with offices in Portugal and Italy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “More than a market neutral pioneer, we invest in people, partnerships, and a purposeful future.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Corbin Capital Partners is a majority women-owned independent alternative asset management firm that specializes in multi-strategy hedge fund and opportunistic credit investing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Interval Partners, LP (“Interval”) is an alternative investment firm focused on generating uncorrelated alpha through diversified standalone investment strategies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: event-driven hedge funds. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names event-driven hedge funds.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of event-driven hedge funds, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name event-driven hedge funds. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Event-driven hedge funds worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among event-driven hedge funds, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for event-driven hedge funds are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “event-driven hedge funds”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names event-driven hedge funds), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among event-driven hedge funds, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 6,573 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Event-driven hedge funds by location
3 lists · largest firstEvery Event-driven hedge funds list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names event-driven hedge funds, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many event-driven hedge funds are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,054 event-driven hedge funds worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Oaktree Capital Management, L.P, headquartered in Los Angeles, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most event-driven hedge funds?
The United States leads with 514 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (61) and Canada (26). Every event-driven hedge funds list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most event-driven hedge funds?
New York leads with 162 headquartered companies, followed by London (54) and Dallas (21).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 6,573 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,054 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.