Venus Capital was established in Boston in 1994 and regards itself as North America’s first India-focused hedge fund. The firm was registered with the SEC in 2000 and manages the assets of a variety of private clients, principally family offices, funds of funds, pension funds and endowments. Vik Mehrotra is the firm’s founder and chief executive and is also portfolio manager to the flagship Venus Relative Fund. Dylan Tinker is Venus Capital’s second portfolio manager and trading strategist, who assists across all funds. The other members of the management team include trading strategist Tajinder Singh, an ex-Fortis prop trader, and

Simmons & Simmons’ hedge fund practice has been advising hedge fund sponsors and managers since the early 1990s when the alternatives industry started to flourish across Europe. It has the largest hedge fund team in London of any law firm, comprising a core team of 14 partners and 40 other legal staff. In addition, specialised lawyers outside the core team in London, including in the main economies across Europe, are available to advise on an array of issues pertinent to hedge funds. Simmons & Simmons combines in-depth experience with expertise in specialist areas that enables the firm to advise on

Sidley Austin has a premier global practice in advising investment funds and advisers. Sidley’s lawyers serve virtually every type of investment fund and investment manager as well as other market participants. More than 120 corporate, securities and derivatives lawyers serve investment fund, investment management and derivatives work worldwide. Sidley’s principal strengths are its deep and sophisticated knowledge as well as breadth and geographical reach. The firm serves its clients in every substantive investment management and fund discipline. “In supporting our hedge fund manager clients, we are able to utilise our knowledge across practice areas such as tax, employment and market

Sabre Fund Management is one of London’s best-known hedge fund managers, having first risen to prominence as a CTA in 1982. Its core business is quantitative strategies, becoming the first European hedge fund to use style investing as a means for generating alpha. The philosophy behind style investing is that investment managers pursue value, growth and momentum strategies for stock-picking. Sabre uses sophisticated quant models that are able to detect and then capitalise on the dominant themes in the market at any given time by screening arrays of data and forming predictive style models. Sabre’s management team includes Melissa Hill

PVE Capital is a European-based hedge fund manager and adviser established in June 2009 by Gennaro Pucci, Joe Vittoria and Christian Evans. Launched in October 2009, the Matrix PVE Global Credit Fund uses a macro approach to trading credit markets. Founding partner and chief investment officer Pucci has a successful five-year track record managing credit funds and is the fund’s portfolio manager. Key service providers include Credit Suisse as broker, Quintillion as administrator and Daiwa Europe Securities as custodian. The Dublin-domiciled fund, which employs a standard 2 and 20 fee structure, returned 21.95 per cent in 2010 and has seen

Prime Fund Solutions has been a pioneer of fund servicing and financing to the alternative asset management industry since it was first established in 1969. The firm prides itself on its client-focused operating model and counts its industry-leading infrastructure and highly experienced staff as key differentiators in a competitive market. In Europe, the firm has offices in London, Geneva, Luxembourg, Amsterdam, Dublin, Galway and the Isle of Man. Global hedge fund managers, funds of funds, private equity funds and sovereign wealth funds are all clients of Prime Fund Solutions. “In Europe we serve funds of various sizescovering a variety of

London-based PR firm Peregrine Communications is currently Europe’s largest hedge fund PR agency based on the number of clients and their combined assets under management. Established in 2003 by Anthony Payne, Peregrine delivers communication results to companies on a local or global platform, and has built up an award-winning reputation based on proven strategies and excellent client service. Payne has more than 20 years’ industry experience and has been involved in a vast array of financial PR strategies, such as advising the first mainland Chinese company on listing its shares on the NYSE. Payne has focused more on asset management