Alternative Investments

Mullan Schwartz has one of the few dedicated search teams that focuses on Asia’s rapidly expanding alternative investment industry which is centered in Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo and Sydney. This market has seen explosive growth over the last two years and has been handicapped largely by talent constraints within the investment community, with the required regional or product specific experience in relative short supply. Mullan Schwartz’ practice teams focus primarily on hedge funds and private equity funds covering a range of traded and corporate strategies. We are continuously building close relations with some of the region’s most dynamic fund managers and maintaining strategic contacts with principals of firms in both the United States and Europe who have opened or are planning to open operations in Asia.

We are able to provide to our clients not only the best available talent in Asian financial markets but also the appropriate individuals in Europe and the United States who are willing to relocate to Asia. Our search teams are organized on product specific areas to include senior management(CEO, CIO, CAO and COO),portfolio management/trading, analysis/research, asset gathering/capital raising, senior infrastructure, risk management, technology, tax and legal.

We also process a strong research driven regional knowledge base which allows our clients to take advantage of our capital markets practice which can help identify senior sell-side talent looking to move to the buy-side where they can contribute to the build out of successful new platforms; this option has been particularly attractive to our hedge fund clients.

Another area of our business is strategic introductions. Through our extensive industry-wide network we help move trading teams or analysts from investment banks to newly or already established platforms or introduce fund managers to opportunities to either acquire or merge with already established platforms.