Araglan Capital Management

Ari J. Storch is the founder and the sole portfolio manager. Storch previously worked at Deephaven Capital Management, a well-known multi-strategy platform, before launching Araglan as an independent entity in 2004. All investment decisions trace to Storch as the named principal.

Araglan focuses on hard-catalyst event driven situations, primarily merger arbitrage and special situations. The firm targets transactions where a defined corporate action — a regulatory approval, a shareholder vote, a court ruling — determines the investment outcome, rather than relying on a directional market view or valuation multiple expansion.

Araglan operates as a direct hedge fund, managing a single commingled vehicle or managed account structure. It does not allocate as a fund-of-funds; its activity consists solely of purchasing and short-selling securities directly within its event-driven mandate.

Araglan targets publicly announced events. The manager enters positions post-announcement in mergers and acquisitions, or participates in securities created by corporate restructurings such as spinoff distributions and post-bankruptcy equity. The firm does not engage in pre-event, activist, or venture-stage investing.

The firm has not publicly disclosed a sector exclusion policy. However, as an event-driven manager focused on hard catalysts, Araglan typically avoids situations where shareholder activism or a broad thematic thesis constitutes the primary return driver, staying away from deep fundamental, long-only equity strategies.