Prior to joining Kite Lake as a Partner in July 2011, Mr Sherman worked in the London office of P Schoenfeld Asset Management (PSAM) from 2007 until June 2011, most recently in the capacity of Co-Head of European Research. At PSAM, Mr Sherman focused primarily on equity and credit risk arbitrage as well as other event driven strategies. Prior to PSAM, Mr Sherman worked for 2 years as a Director at UBS's Fundamental Investment Group, the bank's proprietary trading group. Mr Sherman was a member of a four person team managing a US$700m (a side) long / short equity trading portfolio, with the specific responsibility for portfolio managing a carved out long / short equity book of c US$100m long market value. Prior to that Mr Sherman worked in the Event Arbitrage Group, providing bespoke sell side research and trading strategies and advice to international hedge funds and proprietary trading desks on event driven scenarios, including “standard” risk arbitrage, stub trades, dual listed companies, and catalyst driven fundamental investing. Mr Sherman started his career at UBS in 2000 in the Mergers and Acquisitions team in the investment banking division, working on numerous transactions, defence mandates and capital raising for clients as diverse as the Jardine Matheson Group, EMI, De Beers and Sanofi Aventis. Mr Sherman holds a MSc in International Finance and Accounting from the London School of Economics, and a dual Bachelor of Arts from Emory University in Economics and International Relations.