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BRIAN STARK
Stark Investments.

Arbitrage Focus with Convertible Arbitrage Core Finding Inefficiencies Outside the U.S.

In the suburbs of Milwaukee, one can find Stark Investments—an 85-person firm managing about $1.7 billion. Stark Investments, which focuses on convertible arbitrage, risk arbitrage, private placements, and capital structure arbitrage (in that order), has a track record going back to 1987. The firm started as Stark Partners.

Interestingly, the firm has it roots in New York City and then Greenwich, Connecticut, but Stark eventually moved it to Mequon, Wisconsin, in August 1993. Whitefish Bay, a suburb of Mequon, is where Brian Stark grew up. Mike Roth, who met Stark at Harvard Law School and who be-