Rene Canezin

Managing Partner and Founder at Evolution Credit Partners Management

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Rene J. Canezin is a Managing Partner and Founding Partner of the Firm. He has 32 years of experience in building and managing investment businesses in multiple global locations across all asset classes and derivatives. His experience includes private credit investing, structuring and financing transactions both in the U.S. and Asia, product creation and trading of credit derivative products, and portfolio management and trading of high yield, distressed, and leveraged loans.

Prior to founding the Firm in 2018, Rene joined HMC in 2011, where he was responsible for building and managing the absolute return credit portfolio. During his tenure, he took additional leadership roles in overseeing Fixed Income, Commodities, and International Equities portfolios with total risk capital exceeding $3 billion. In 2015, Rene managed HMC's material Natural Resources portfolio of direct private investments while maintaining his responsibility for the capital markets platform. During this time, Rene was named Cohead of the Investment Committee and later formed the HMC Private Credit team in January 2017.

Prior to joining HMC, Rene spent 21 years at Lehman Brothers and Barclays Bank. Rene was Head of U.S. Credit and Global High Yield Trading for Barclays Capital, where he led credit trading teams including High Yield, Leveraged Loans, Distressed, Investment Grade, and Index Trading. In addition to his trading role, Rene formed an independent principal investment team which invested in private and public credit and structured credit products throughout the U.S. and Europe. During his eighteen (18) years at Lehman Brothers, Rene held various responsibilities including regional treasurer for Asia based in Tokyo, Head of Structured Products within Structured Credit Trading, and Head of U.S. High Yield trading and Principal Strategies.

Rene was an early pioneer in the structured credit space having closed well over a hundred structured finance transactions under one of the most prolific repackaging vehicles on Wall Street known as RACERS. Highlights include the formation and trading of the HY RACERS program (predecessor to HY ETFs), establishing terms and trading the first loan credit default swaps, CDS recovery locks, and a patent application for an actively managed credit linked note program.

Rene graduated magna cum laude from Boston College with a BS in Finance.