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Top 25 Distressed debt hedge funds based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 99 distressed debt hedge funds headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 2,854 professional contacts across them, including 1,253 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers distressed debt hedge funds headquartered in the United Kingdom, 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.
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The 25 largest distressed debt hedge funds based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 469 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We identify the hidden value in companies that are often in challenging or complex situations, but have a strong core offering.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 333 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BC Partners is an international investment firm that offers select, focused investment strategies designed to complement each other and create synergies that benefit our investors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 328 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AURELIUS is a global alternative investor, distinguished and widely recognised for its operational approach.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 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. | |||||
| 5 | 172 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 2005, CVC Credit is the dedicated credit arm of CVC.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 148 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Alcentra is a global asset management firm focussed on sub-investment grade corporate credit.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 98 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Arini Capital Management is a specialized alternative asset manager with a diverse credit investment offering across public and private credit, supported by a highly sophisticated…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 98 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cain International ('Cain') is a privately held investment firm focused on real estate and business opportunities that shape the fabric of global gateway cities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 85 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cross Ocean Partners focuses on credit investments in a broad range of asset classes, including corporate loans and bonds, hard assets, commercial real estate, liquidations and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “LCM Partners is one of Europe's leading alternatives investment management firms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Veld is an asset-backed focused private investment firm, with strategies targeting both credit (highly diversified portfolios of predominantly amortising consumer and SME debt) as…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Alchemy Partners, together with Alchemy Special Opportunities LLP, specialises in investing in distressed and undervalued or underperforming businesses and other special…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “WRM Group, founded in 2009, specialises in Special Situations, Distressed Private Equity and Real Estate.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2006, AgFe is a fully independent advisory and asset management firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Forum Partners is a global real estate investment management firm with five offices across Europe, Asia and North America.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Shiprock Capital Management Limited is a London based investment management firm focussed on investing in Global Distressed and Special Situations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The GWM Group is an independent financial asset management group.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Kite Lake Capital is an asset management firm based in London.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ironshield Capital Management LLP is a special situations investment manager focusing on stressed and distressed event driven credit situations in Europe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Unlocking Complexity - Lodbrok Capital LLP is an alternative investment manager which invests across the capital structure.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2019, Acer Tree specialises in European investment opportunities across the liquid credit universe in investment grade, high yield, leveraged loans, special situations…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 2015, Copper Street Capital LLP (“Copper Street”) is an alternative investment firm focused on capturing thematic value-driven opportunities within the financial…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Prosperise Capital is a global asset manager with unparalleled expertise in corporate credit, fixed income, and distressed debt.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Mercantile Group is a growing and successful private investment company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 12 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: distressed debt 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 distressed debt hedge funds.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of distressed debt hedge funds, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name distressed debt 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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Distressed debt hedge funds based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 99 companies.
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 distressed debt 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.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “distressed debt 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 distressed debt 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 distressed debt hedge funds, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- 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, 1,253 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
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Distressed debt hedge funds by metro
- Distressed debt hedge funds in London80
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 distressed debt 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 distressed debt hedge funds are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 99 distressed debt hedge funds headquartered in the United Kingdom 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?
Privet Capital LLP, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most distressed debt hedge funds?
London leads with 80 headquartered companies, followed by Leeds (2) and Altrincham (1).
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 1,253 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 99 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.
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