KNIGHTHEAD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC other names

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Adviser Profile

As of Date:

05/02/2024

Adviser Type:

- Large advisory firm


Number of Employees:

49 36.11%

of those in investment advisory functions:

23 15.00%


Registration:

SEC, Approved, 2/27/2012

AUM:

16,132,238,634 20.45%

of that, discretionary:

15,791,247,564 20.87%

Private Fund GAV:

10,275,246,124 1.59%

Avg Account Size:

384,100,920 17.58%


SMA’s:

YES

Private Funds:

10

Contact Info

212 xxxxxxx

Websites :
Client Types:

+

Advisory Activities:

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Compensation Arrangments:

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Reported AUM

Discretionary
Non-discretionary
15B 13B 11B 8B 6B 4B 2B
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023

Recent News

$300,000,000 Tom Brady Has a Personal Motive Behind New Investment Venture With ...
08/07/2023

Brady is embracing the role of minority owner of Birmingham FC, partnering with Knighthead Capital Management, founded by hedge fund manager Tom ...

essentiallysports.com

EFL approves hedge fund boss's Birmingham City takeover - HedgeCo
06/08/2023

(Hedgeweek) US hedge fund manager Tom Wagner, the co-founder of Knighthead Capital Management, which oversees about $9 billion and focuses on ...

hedgeco.net

New York hedge fund acquires stake in Birmingham City FC after 'complex' talks
05/09/2023

Thomas Wagner's multi-billion dollar hedge fund Knighthead Capital Management has acquired a significant stake in the English football club ...

fnlondon.com

Birmingham City takeover: US hedge fund chief 'close' to deal with plans to build new stadium
04/21/2023

Birmingham City have been in the midst of a bitter and long takeover and it has emerged that bidders from Knighthead Capital Management are ...

irishmirror.ie

Hertz Selects Investors to Sponsor Planned Chapter 11 Exit
04/04/2021

The proposal was selected by the company over a rival bid from Knighthead Capital Management LLC and Certares Management LLC in a competitive process, according to papers filed Saturday in the U.S ...

Wall Street Journal


Private Funds Structure

Fund Type Count GAV
Hedge Fund 2 $1,301,806,520
Private Equity Fund 7 $8,964,487,567
Real Estate Fund 1 $8,952,037

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Brochure Summary

Overview

Knighthead Capital Management, LLC (“Knighthead”) is a Delaware limited liability company that was founded in 2008. Ara Cohen and Thomas Wagner (collectively, the “Principals”) are the principal owners of Knighthead and the portfolio managers primarily responsible for all investment decisions. Knighthead is based in New York and also has offices in Connecticut and Florida. This Brochure also relates to each of Knighthead’s relying advisers: Knighthead Realty Capital Management, LLC, Knighthead Insurance Capital Management, LP, Knighthead Capital Management SMA, LLC and Knighthead Opportunities Capital Management, LLC. Knighthead or its Principals, either directly or indirectly, control: (i) Knighthead GP, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Knighthead GP”), which serves as the general partner of the Domestic Fund and the Master Fund, as each is defined below; (ii) Knighthead DOF GP, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“KDOF GP”) which serves as the general partner of KDOF, KDOF Domestic, KDOF Intermediate and KDOF Offshore, as each is defined below; (iii) Knighthead Realty Capital Management, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Knighthead Realty”), which serves as the investment manager for Knighthead Special Situations Real Estate Fund II, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership, ( the “Real Estate Fund II”); (iv) Knighthead SSREF GP-II, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“SSREF GP-II”), which serves as the general partner for Real Estate Fund II; (v) Knighthead GP-II, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, which serves as the sole member of SSREF GP-II; (vi) Knighthead SSRE REIT II, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“SSRE REIT II”); (vii) Knighthead Capital Management SMA, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Knighthead SMA”), a sub-advisor to BIOV1 Segregated Portfolio, as defined below; (viii) Knighthead (NY) GP, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, which serves as the general partner of Knighthead (NY) Fund, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (“Knighthead NY Fund”); (ix) Knighthead Insurance Capital Management, LP, a Delaware limited partnership (“Knighthead Insurance”), the investment advisor to Knighthead Annuity and Knighthead Holdings, each as defined below, and the outsourced chief investment manager to Knighthead Holdings; (x) Knighthead IM GP, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and affiliate of Knighthead Insurance; (xi) Knighthead Insurance GP, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, (“Knighthead Insurance GP”); (xii) Knighthead CK Opportunities GP, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company; (xiii) Knighthead CK Amarillo GP, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company; (xiv) Together with Certares (as defined below), an unaffiliated registered investment advisor: (a) CK Opportunities GP, LLC; (b) CK Amarillo GP, LLC; and (c) Knights Watch CK GP, LLC; (xv) Knighthead Opportunities Capital Management, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Knighthead Opportunities” and collectively with Knighthead, Knighthead Realty, Knighthead SMA and Knighthead Insurance, the “Adviser”), the joint investment advisor with Certares to CK Opportunities Domestic Fund, LP, CK Opportunities Offshore Fund, LP, CK Opportunities Fund I, LP, CK Opportunities Fund II, LP, CK Lending Opportunities, LLC, CKB Opp OS, LP and CKB Opp US, LLC (collectivelythe “CK Opportunities Funds”); (xvi) Knighthead Annuity and Knighthead Holdings, as defined below; (xvii) Knights Watch GP, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, which serves as the general partner of Knight King, as defined below; and (xviii) Knighthead Managed Opportunities GP, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, which serves as the general partner of KHMO, as defined below; Knighthead provides investment advisory services to: (A) (i) Knighthead Master Fund, L.P., a Cayman Islands exempted limited partnership (the “Master Fund”), (ii) Knighthead Domestic Fund, L.P. a Delaware limited partnership (the “Domestic Fund”), which is a feeder fund in the Master Fund, and (iii) Knighthead Offshore Fund, Ltd., a Cayman Islands exempted company (the “Offshore Fund”, and collectively with the Master Fund and the Domestic Fund, the “Knighthead Master Feeder Funds”), which is also a feeder fund in the Master Fund; (B) (i) Knighthead Distressed Opportunities Fund, LP, a Cayman Islands exempted limited partnership (“KDOF Fund”); (ii) Knighthead (U.S.) Distressed Opportunities Fund, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (“KDOF Domestic Fund”); (iii) Knighthead Intermediate Distressed Opportunities Fund, LP, a Cayman Islands exempted limited partnership (“KDOF Intermediate Fund”); (iv) Knighthead (Cayman) Distressed Opportunities Fund, L.P., a Cayman Islands exempted limited partnership (collectively with KDOF Fund, KDOF Domestic Fund and KDOF Intermediate Fund, the “Knighthead Distressed Opportunities Funds”); (C) Knighthead Insurance Holdings, Ltd., a Cayman Islands exempted company (formerly Knighthead Insurance Fund I, Ltd.; “KIH”); and (D) Knighthead Managed Opportunities, L.P., a Cayman Islands limited partnership (“KHMO”). In addition, Knighthead currently (A) advises Knighthead NY Fund, Jazz Reinsurance Company, a company organized in Utah (“Jazz Reinsurance”), SILAC Insurance Company, a company organized in Utah (“SILAC”), Trinity Life Insurance Company, a company organized in Oklahoma (“Trinity”) Transoceanic Life Insurance Company, a company organized in Puerto Rico (“TOLIC”), Pacific Guardian and Life Insurance Company, a company organized in Hawaii (“PGL”) and Plateau Insurance Company, a company organized under the laws of Tennessee (collectively with Jazz Reinsurance, SILAC,Trinity, TOLIC and PGL, as well as the Rated Feeders (as defined below), the “Managed Account Clients”); and (B) sub-advises Knighthead Annuity & Life Assurance Company, a life assurance company domiciled in the Cayman Islands (“Knighthead Annuity”), and Knighthead Holdings Ltd, a Cayman Islands exempted company (“Knighthead Holdings”) (Knighthead NY Fund, the Managed Account Clients, Knighthead Annuity, Knighthead Holdings, KIH, KHMO, the Knighthead Master Feeder Funds and the Knighthead Distressed Opportunities Funds, collectively, the “Funds” and each individually, a “Fund”). The Adviser has sole responsibility for all investment decisions on behalf of the Funds and Real Estate Fund II (each a “Knighthead Fund” and collectively, the “Knighthead Funds”). Further, Knighthead Insurance serves as outsourced chief investment manager to Knighthead Holdings whereby Knighthead Insurance (a) assesses the investment risks and liquidity needs of Knighthead Holdings; (b) advises Knighthead Holdings on all aspects of its asset allocation, investment strategy and risk profile; (c) provides investment management services; and (d) assists in other duties typical of an outsourced chief investment manager. Knighthead has also worked with several
Managed Account Clients to restructure the assets that Knighthead manages for them. The restructuring has included establishing feeder funds, including Knighthead Credit JSU Feeder Fund LLC, KHJSU SPV LP LLC, Knighthead Credit SU Feeder Fund LLC, KHSU SPV LP LLC, Knighthead Credit TPR Feeder Fund LLC and KHTPR SPV LP LLC, each a rated feeder fund (the “Rated Feeders”). Knighthead will continue to work with existing and new Managed Account Clients in structuring their investment assets that are managed by Knighthead. In December 2019, Knight King LP, a Cayman Islands exempted limited partnership (“Knight King”), was formed as a co-investment vehicle for one investor to co-invest in certain opportunities alongside the Knighthead Funds if there is excess capacity or where an investment is not suitable for the Knighthead Funds, subject in all cases to such investor approving investments. Knight King committed to its first investment in 2023. In 2020, Knighthead Opportunities entered into a joint venture with Certares Opportunities LLC (“Certares”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Certares Management LLC, an SEC registered investment adviser, to co-manage the CK Opportunities Funds. In 2021, Knighthead and Certares formed (i) CK Amarillo, LP (“CK Amarillo”) to hold shares of a specific investment; and (ii) Knight King CK LP (“Knight King CK”) as a co-investment vehicle for one investor to co-invest in certain opportunities alongside the CK Opportunities’ Funds if there is excess capacity or where an investment is not suitable for the CK Opportunities Funds, subject in all cases to such investor approving investments. In addition to the foregoing, Knighthead provides advisory services to third-party managed vehicles: (i) BSOF Master Fund, L.P., BSOF Parallel Master Fund, L.P., BSOF Parallel Moat Fund L.P., and BSOF Master Fund II L.P., each a Cayman Islands exempted limited partnership (collectively, the “BSOF Funds”), and (ii) WWJr. Enterprises Inc., a Delaware Corporation, (“WWJr”), while Knighthead SMA provides advisory services to J.P. Morgan Omni SPC, Ltd., a Cayman Islands segregated portfolio company acting on behalf of and for the account of BIOV1 Segregated Portfolio (the “BIOV1 Segregated Portfolio” and together with the BSOF Funds and WWJr, the “Subadvised Funds”), whereby the Adviser provides the Subadvised Funds with the opportunity to co-invest in certain Knighthead Master Feeder Funds’ or Knighthead Distressed Opportunities Funds’ investments in which there is excess capacity or where an investment idea is not suitable for the Knighthead Master Feeder Funds or the Knighthead Distressed Opportunities Funds but may be suitable for the Subadvised Funds. Knight King CK is provided with the opportunity to co-invest in certain CK Opportunities Funds’ investments in which there is excess capacity. Knight King is provided with the opportunity to invest in certain investments of the Knighthead Funds in which there is excess capacity. The Subadvised Funds, Knight King CK and Knight King must approve a co-investment opportunity before the Adviser may make such an investment on behalf of the Subadvised Funds (each approved co-investment opportunity, an “Approved Investment”). While the Adviser does not have discretion over the Subadvised Funds, Knight King CK or Knight King generally, it has the ability to direct the investment into an Approved Investment and execute trading thereof on behalf of the Subadvised Funds, Knight King CK and Knight King (the “Subadvised Entities”). The Rated Feeders, while discretionary, are directed investments to Knighthead Master Feeder Funds. The primary investment objective of the Funds is to generate attractive risk adjusted returns while emphasizing the preservation of capital. No assurance can be made that this investment objective will be achieved and investment results may vary substantially. Knighthead primarily invests its Funds’ assets in the debt securities or loans of leveraged or financially distressed companies and in companies with undervalued equity securities. Many of these distressed companies will undergo debt restructurings or reorganizations under federal bankruptcy law, while others may restructure outside of bankruptcy. The Funds may also invest in equity and other securities that Knighthead believes are trading at substantial discounts to their underlying value, particularly if there are catalysts which may eliminate these discounts. Real Estate Fund II and the Managed Account Clients’ primary investment objectives are to originate short-term U.S. real estate secured loans and to make or acquire other loans or other real estate related investments in connection with real estate development or other special situations. The CK Opportunities Funds’ primary investment objectives were to invest in opportunities in the travel and hospitality sectors, including, but not limited to, opportunities arising from market dislocations caused by COVID-19. CK Amarillo’s primary investment objective is to invest in the shares of Hertz Global Holdings, Inc. The Adviser tailors its investment advice in accordance with the investment objective and strategy of the Knighthead Funds, the CK Opportunities Funds and CK Amarillo, as applicable.. The Adviser does not tailor its advisory services to the needs of any particular investor in the Knighthead Funds, the CK Opportunities Funds or CK Amarillo. Investment advice is not tailored for the Subadvised Entities as those clients are presented only with co-investment opportunities based on its investment objectives. The Adviser does not currently provide investment advisory services to clients apart from the Knighthead Funds, the CK Opportunities Funds, CK Amarillo, the Subadvised Entities and the Rated Feeders (together, the “Clients” and each individually, a “Client”), although it and/or its affiliates may do so in the future. The Adviser manages the assets of the Knighthead Funds, CK Amarillo and the CK Opportunities Funds, the latter with Certares, on a discretionary basis. Knighthead manages the assets of the Subadvised Funds, Knight King CK (with Certares) and Knight King on a non- discretionary basis. The Rated Feeders, while discretionary, are directed investments to Knighthead Master Feeder Funds. While the Adviser does not have discretion over the Subadvised Entities generally, it has the ability to direct the investment into an Approved Investment and any trading thereof on behalf of the Subadvised Entities. As of December 31, 2023, the Adviser’s discretionary regulatory assets under management were approximately $16 billion and the Adviser’s non-discretionary regulatory assets under management were approximately $340 million. For a further discussion of these and related items, see Item 7 (Types of Clients), Item 8 (Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss) and Item 10 (Other Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations).