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Jackson Peak Capital
Bill Jackson spun out of Farallon Capital to found Jackson Peak Capital, a San Francisco hedge fund focused on credit and special situations.
Jackson Peak Capital
Jackson Peak Capital was founded by William (Bill) Jackson, who departed Farallon Capital Management — the $40-billion multi-strategy firm founded by Tom Steyer — after over a decade as a managing director and senior investor. At Farallon, Jackson was a key architect of the firm's credit and event-driven strategies, experience that now forms the core of his independent platform. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco. Jackson Peak pursues an opportunistic, multi-asset investment strategy concentrated in credit, special situations, and distressed debt. The portfolio spans corporate credit — including leveraged loans and high-yield bonds — alongside structured credit, private debt, and event-driven equity positions. The firm engages in both primary issuance and secondary market trades, typically navigating bankruptcy processes, recapitalizations, and post-reorganization equity. Investments have included positions in the energy, real estate, and consumer sectors, reflecting a mandate that deploys capital wherever dislocation produces asymmetric risk-reward profiles. The firm operates with a global mandate but historically has concentrated activity in North American and Western European markets. The firm maintains a streamlined operating model with a lean investment team built around Jackson's direct portfolio management. Rather than layering analyst coverage across dozens of sub-sectors, Jackson Peak deploys capital via a concentrated book of high-conviction positions informed by Jackson's own sourcing network developed over two decades in the hedge fund industry. The firm does not publicly disclose its total assets under management or headcount. Jackson Peak's structural identity lies in its direct lineage to one of the oldest and most durable multi-strategy platforms. The firm operates as a direct extension of the Farallon credit culture rather than a generic hedge fund launch — a concentrated, founder-led vehicle that draws proprietary deal flow from relationships forged inside the institutional credit and distressed ecosystem. This positions Jackson Peak less as a start-up and more as a boutique continuation of a proven institutional investment framework.
General information
Firm type
Asset Manager
Year founded
—
AUM
Undisclosed
Location
Region
North America
Country
United States
City
San Francisco
Corporate office
San Francisco, CA, United States
Principals
William (Bill) T. Jackson
Founder & Chief Investment Officer
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
Who runs investment decisions at Jackson Peak Capital?
William (Bill) Jackson, the founder and Chief Investment Officer, has sole and final authority over all portfolio allocation and security selection. Jackson built the firm's investment process around his own credit and event-driven expertise, developed over more than ten years as a managing director at Farallon Capital Management (public record). He does not delegate core portfolio decisions to an investment committee or subordinate PMs.
What is Jackson Peak's relationship to Farallon Capital?
Jackson Peak Capital is an independent firm with no formal affiliation to Farallon Capital Management. However, the connection is foundational: Bill Jackson was a senior managing director at Farallon for over a decade, and Jackson Peak's multi-strategy credit and special-situations approach is a direct professional descendant of the Farallon model. The relationship is one of intellectual and operational lineage rather than shared ownership or infrastructure.
How does Jackson Peak differ from other multi-strategy credit funds?
The firm runs a concentrated, founder-anchored book rather than the multi-manager platform model common in larger multi-strategy firms. Bill Jackson personally sources and sizes every position, operating without the siloed sector-pod architecture that defines firms like Citadel or Millennium. This gives Jackson Peak a narrower but higher-conviction portfolio, with the flexibility to move into distressed, structured credit, or event-driven equity without internal mandate conflicts.
What types of credit instruments does Jackson Peak trade?
Jackson Peak trades across the credit spectrum. The firm participates in leveraged loans, high-yield bonds, distressed debt, structured credit, and post-reorganization equity. Positions are sourced from both primary syndication desks and secondary market trading, with a historical tilt toward complex situations — bankruptcies, recapitalizations, and liability-management exercises — where the firm's restructuring expertise provides an analytical edge.
Does Jackson Peak manage outside capital or only partner wealth?
Based on Jackson Peak's structure as a registered investment adviser and Bill Jackson's departure from a firm that managed substantial outside institutional capital, the firm is understood to manage third-party capital alongside any internal partner commitments. Specific fund structure and investor composition are not publicly disclosed, consistent with the firm's preference for operating outside the press.
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