Atalaya Capital Management is a privately held, SEC-registered, alternative investment advisory firm established in 2006 and headquartered in New York City. The firm focuses on making opportunistic credit and special situations investments, primarily via three principal strategies in corporate, real estate, and specialty finance. The firm seeks to serve clients in the media, consumer, energy, health, retail, and technology sectors. Atalaya manages capital deployed primarily in private equity format funds, for a client base of predominantly institutional investors including endowments, foundations, family offices, and public and corporate pension plans.