About the Firm

The D. E. Shaw group is a global investment and technology development firm with more than 1,500 employees, approximately $21 billion in investment and committed capital as of July 1, 2010, and offices in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

The central focus of the D. E. Shaw group is the pursuit of potentially attractive investment opportunities, and in some cases, the active creation of new ones. Such opportunities form the basis for a number of funds and other investment vehicles, and for the firm's management of assets on behalf of institutional clients.

Investments include both publicly traded and privately held financial instruments, certain physical commodities and commercial rights, and in some cases, entire companies. The firm also provides individually tailored debt and equity financing to both healthy and financially distressed companies, makes venture capital investments in early- and later-stage ventures, and organizes and develops new technology-oriented ventures of its own.