Isaac Corre

Founder & CEO, Governors Lane · 1 appearance on the record.

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Isaac Corre spent nearly a decade practicing commercial litigation before becoming a founding partner and Senior Managing Director at Eton Park Capital Management. In 2015, he established Governors Lane, a New York-based investment firm focused on event-driven equity and credit opportunities.

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3 predictions · 4 assertions · 7 opinions · 13 insights · 3 disclosures · 1 what if · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved, and 3 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Isaac argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Corre: Biden Administration Has Mostly Failed in Merger Antitrust Challenges

“Generally speaking, the administration has not been successful in those challenges.”

Isaac Corre Oct 16, 2023 ▶ 18:04 Isaac Corre – Event-Driven Investing at Governors Lane (EP.344)

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Isaac Corre on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

What they said31 Episodes1

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Insight

Corre: Merger arbitrage requires a 90%+ hit rate unlike general investing

“The great thing about this business, and the hardest thing about this business, is a lot of folks who are in our industry, there are people who got nineties and plus on every single one of their tests. And in investing, fifties, 55, 60 is pretty good. Now in a…”

Isaac Corre Oct 16, 2023 ▶ 42:29 Isaac Corre – Event-Driven Investing at Governors Lane (EP.344)

Disclosure

Corre: Governors Lane Bought Luckin Coffee in Single to Low-Double Digits

“We bought a decent size position when the stock was trading low double digits, high single digits, and we did a lot of the work I was describing, a lot with the alternative data, some surveys, we spoke to franchisees in China about it, and we've sold a decent …”

Isaac Corre Oct 16, 2023 ▶ 44:31 Isaac Corre – Event-Driven Investing at Governors Lane (EP.344)

Insight

Corre: The hedge fund graveyard is filled with firms that grew too big

“I want to grow responsibly, recognize the fact that the graveyard Of hedge funds is filled with hedge funds that did what we did and got too big and to grow with discipline in a way that allows us to continue to maintain the culture that has contributed to our…”

Isaac Corre Oct 16, 2023 ▶ 45:21 Isaac Corre – Event-Driven Investing at Governors Lane (EP.344)

Insight

Corre: Multiples Are Merely Cash Flow Proxies, Not Standalone Buy/Sell Signals

“I think people fetishize multiples. And so often you hear people tell you, oh, the multiple is so low, we should be long, or the multiple is so high, we should be short. And multiples are a very reasonable proxy for the market's estimate of the net present val…”

Isaac Corre Oct 16, 2023 ▶ 47:06 Isaac Corre – Event-Driven Investing at Governors Lane (EP.344)

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Corre: Financial Markets Were Very Bad at Pricing Legal Risk in the Late 1990s

“And what I found was, this is in the late nineties, so things have changed a little bit. The market was really, really bad at pricing legal risk.”

Isaac Corre Oct 16, 2023 ▶ 6:38 Isaac Corre – Event-Driven Investing at Governors Lane (EP.344)

Disclosure

Corre: Eton Park Shorted Credit Indices and Subprime Debt Early On

“At the time, we didn't have a dedicated credit effort, despite what I just mentioned to you, because the house view was that credit was so unattractive as an asset class. And we were, from almost day one, shorting pretty much every index. We eventually got inv…”

Isaac Corre Oct 16, 2023 ▶ 10:31 Isaac Corre – Event-Driven Investing at Governors Lane (EP.344)

What-if

Corre: Arbitrageurs should have maximized exposure to 2009 Pfizer and Merck deals

“This was true in 2009 when Pfizer was buying Wyeth and Merck was buying Shearing Plow. Both were trading at really, really attractive spreads, but you had to say, look, they're both pharma deals. If there's going to be an issue, there could be an issue with bo…”

Isaac Corre Oct 16, 2023 ▶ 20:58 Isaac Corre – Event-Driven Investing at Governors Lane (EP.344)

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Isaac Corre – Event-Driven Investing at Governors Lane (EP.344)	Oct 16, 2023	36m

Isaac Corre

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