Clearfield Capital Management

Clearfield Capital Management (Clearfield) is a special-situations hedge fund manager founded in January 2015 by Phil Hilal. Combining the benefits of event-driven, fundamental long/short, and activist strategies to identify companies with opportunities for transformative, non-recurring change, Clearfield seeks to generate outsized risk-adjusted returns using constructive engagement with management and boards to catalyze the performance of its investments. Clearfield focuses on high-conviction, catalyst-rich ideas, where it has proprietary analytical insights. It focuses on four sectors where the team has extensive experience: business services, consumer TMT, industrials, and consumer staples. In addition, Clearfield selectively offers co-invest opportunities in high-conviction ideas, where these positions are already fully sized in the fund. With nearly 70 years of combined experience – including 20 years collectively at Clearfield, and additional overlap at prior firms – across hedge funds, private equity, restructuring, management consulting, and investment banking, the investment team is uniquely positioned to execute Clearfield’s investment strategy.