Akanthos Capital Management, LLC (Akanthos) is a financial investment advisory firm headquartered in Woodland Hills, California. The firm manages the Akanthos Arbitrage Funds (the Akanthos Funds). The Akanthos Funds focus is towards opportunistic, capital structure, long/short investments. Michael Kao founded Akanthos in 2002 and previously managed an arbitrage group at Canyon Capital Advisors and has degrees from Berkeley and Wharton.