Eric Mandelblatt

The event-driven hedge fund firm swooned early in the year but has recovered, thanks in part to several stocks involved in major deals.
The New York–based event-driven firm reopened a fund launched last year in an offering that was heavily oversubscribed.
Eric Mandelblatt and Gaurav Kapadia’s long-short equity firm has debuted a concentrated best ideas fund that the firm expects will reach $1.5 billion in assets.