Andrew Hoine is a Managing Director, Co-Portfolio Manager and Director of Research for Paulson & Co., based in the New York office. He joined Paulson & Co. in 1998. Paulson & Co. is a global event arbitrage hedge fund founded in 1994 with offices in New York, London and Hong Kong. The firm manages assets in five core strategies: the merger funds, the event driven funds, the credit opportunities funds, the special situation funds and the gold funds. In addition to its hedge funds, Paulson & Co. manages real estate private equity funds which focus on various types of distressed real estate recovery opportunities. Mr. Hoine was previously in Investment Banking with J.P. Morgan & Co. focusing on Financial Institutions responsible for the bank's executing and marketing of mergers and acquisition, and debt and equity underwriting. Mr. Hoine received his Bachelor degree, in Economics and Business Administration from Vanderbilt University in May 1996.