Robert Neal

Mr. Neal has 33 years experience in senior roles with hedge funds and leading global corporate finance firms. He has extensive experience as both a principal investor and advisor in leveraged finance, high yield, private and public equity. He has long-standing relationships and expertise in the energy, industrial and materials sectors. Mr. Neal founded Skellig Capital LLC in February 2007. Skellig Capital is a global long/short equity hedge fund based in New York. Primary industry concentrations include industrials, energy, mining, metals and logistics. Prior to founding Skellig Capital, Mr. Neal was responsible for industrial sector research with a concentration on ferrous and industrial metals at Passport Capital, LLC. Prior to joining Passport Capital, Mr. Neal had a 14 year corporate finance career with firms including Merrill Lynch, Barclays de Zoete Wedd and Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, where Mr. Neal was the global head of private equity coverage. Mr. Neal’s corporate finance expertise concentrated on leveraged finance, high yield, restructuring and mergers & acquisitions. In his corporate finance work Mr. Neal focused for many years on the private equity community in the United States and Western Europe, providing acquisition and financial structuring advice for numerous transactions, principally in the industrial sector. Mr. Neal received a BA from Duke University in 1988.