Top L/S in London and Hong Kong (e.g., Lone Pine, Viking, Coatue, Maverick, Darsana, etc.)
Wondering what top names are in London. Gossip is fine. Hard to find names of places unlike in PE where there's practically lists of thousands of firms ranked by the collective imaginations of hardo college students everywhere.
In MM land - there is Citadel, Millennium, Balyasny, P72, Schonfeld, Lighthouse, Bell Rock , MAN GLG, Marble Bar and probably a few others I've forgot or that are starting to roll out in Europe (e.g. Brookfield).
In SM land - TCI, Egerton, AKO, Pelham, Helikon, Kintbury, Marshall Wace, Gladstone, Pelham, Lancaster, Theleme, Crake, Kuvari, Odey, Sandbar, Thunderbird, Immersion, and many others managing $0.5bn-2.0bn who don't wish to be very public.
There are also a number of firms that many would think of as LO such as Blackrock, Pictet, Threadneedle, Lazard and JPM which run sizeable L/S products. Blackrock's EU L/S equity HF if you include the UK desk is quite significant when viewed vs. Egerton/AKO where a lot of the assets are in fact LO.
One thing which is a bit different to the US is that the two years in IBD and then switch to being a HF analyst, ex the pods, is not as common. Hiring tends to be longer term in nature with most of these firms looking for low turnover of employees and building partnership cultures - the outcome of this is limited seats become available (ex the pods) on an annual basis and many are filled through networks (reduces HH costs) so job adverts don't make it to LinkedIn or headhunters.