The Special Situations group focuses on opportunities that arise from distinctive and often complex circumstances within companies or markets. These can include corporate restructurings, distressed debt investments, merger arbitrage, recapitalizations, and activist campaigns. Members learn to assess scenarios that require non-traditional analysis, considering factors such as legal constraints, regulatory hurdles, and strategic motives that might affect a company’s financial trajectory. This group offers a rich blend of traditional financial analysis with elements of game theory, behavioral finance, and institutional understanding, teaching students to weigh variables like strategic maneuvers by activist investors, company management decisions, and market reactions. Through investment pitches on distressed companies, students are exposed restructuring strategies, providing them with an understanding of the complex situations often overlooked in standard equity analysis.

Experience from this group can lead to roles in restructuring and special situations investment banking, activist hedge funds, distressed debt funds, arbitrage trading, and consulting positions that involve navigating complex financial or strategic scenarios within companies.