Firms
SEC data October 1, 2026
Sign inYou’re seeing a preview. Members get every firm, every advisor and every filing.
Sign in or start freeFirms
SEC data October 1, 2026
Sign inYou’re seeing a preview. Members get every firm, every advisor and every filing.
Sign in or start freePrivate fund adviser · Greenwich, CT
SEC-registered investment adviser · CRD 109979 · SEC 801-50707
At a glance
Contrarian Capital Management LLC is an SEC-registered investment adviser based in Greenwich, Connecticut, with $4.8 billion in regulatory assets under management as of its Form ADV filed March 27, 2026. Its largest client group by assets is pooled investment vehicles. By Form ADV it is a private fund adviser, ranked 1,016th of 4,686 private fund advisers and 2,163rd of 17,210 SEC-registered advisers by assets.
Main office 203-862-8200contrariancapital.comLinkedInAs filed on Form ADV
| Client type | Clients | Regulatory AUM | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pooled investment vehicles | 23 | $4.1B | 86% |
| Corporations or other businesses | 1 | $671M | 14% |
Contrarian Capital Management LLC reports 14 private funds with $4.1B in gross assets: hedge funds, private equity funds, real estate funds (Form ADV Item 7.B).
Contrarian Capital Management LLC answers yes to 3 disclosure items in Item 11 of Form ADV (criminal, regulatory or civil matters involving the firm or its advisory affiliates). Read the details on the SEC’s adviser search ↗
AtlasMembers
Ten years of SEC filings, its owners and contacts, and how it stacks up against its peers. Atlas members see all of it.
Free while Atlas launches: create a free account and confirm your email. Every figure comes from SEC filings.
Contrarian Capital Management LLC reports $4.8 billion in regulatory assets under management across 24 accounts, 100% of it on a discretionary basis, on its Form ADV filed March 27, 2026.
Contrarian Capital Management LLC is a private fund adviser by its Form ADV answers. Private funds are at least half of its business by assets.
By assets, its largest client types are pooled investment vehicles ($4.1 billion, 23 clients); corporations or other businesses ($671 million, 1 clients).
Yes. It reports 14 private funds with $4.1 billion in gross assets, including hedge funds, private equity funds, real estate funds.
Contrarian Capital Management LLC answers yes to 3 disclosure items in Item 11 of Form ADV, which covers criminal, regulatory and civil matters involving the firm or its advisory affiliates. The details are on the SEC’s adviser search.
Every figure is Contrarian Capital Management LLC’s own answer on its latest Form ADV, from the SEC’s registered-adviser list as of October 1, 2026: regulatory assets and accounts (Item 5.F), clients by type (5.D), employees (5.A and 5.B), compensation (5.E) and services (5.G). Custodians come from Schedule D 5.K(3) of its latest filing (2026-03-27), which lists those holding 10% or more of separately managed account assets and the amount at each. “Hybrid” means some employees are also registered representatives of a broker-dealer (Item 5.B(2)); affiliated broker-dealers are the related persons it lists in Item 7.A and Schedule D. Firm type comes from its own answers: broker-dealer firms are registered broker-dealers themselves (Item 6.A); private fund advisers manage mostly private funds (Item 7.B, 5.D); wealth managers manage at least half their assets for individuals (5.D). Ranks compare it by regulatory assets with every SEC-registered adviser and with firms of its type. Figures are as of the firm’s last annual update, so they can lag recent deals and market moves. Regulatory AUM counts assets the firm continuously supervises and can differ from what a firm markets.
Not an endorsement or a recommendation. Before hiring any adviser, read its Form ADV Part 2A brochure and check its record on the SEC’s adviser search. How to check a financial advisor →