BlueBay expands special situations team with two new hires

James Rous and Giovanni Galvani

BlueBay Asset Management has made two developed market special situations hires, appointing James Rous as an institutional portfolio manager and Giovanni Galvani as an analyst.

The hires come as the company sees "an increasing opportunity to invest in stressed and distressed credit" following the wake of the pandemic, announcing that it will launch a new special situations investment strategy "in the coming months". Both Rous and Galvani will be based in London and report to Adam Phillips, who joined BlueBay last year as head of developed markets within its global leveraged finance team. Before joining BlueBay, Rous was head of marketing and investor relations at Caius Capital for four years. Prior to this, he held senior roles at Fortress Investment Group, ...