René J. Canezin is the Managing Partner and Founding Partner of Evolution Credit Partners. He has 34
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, René 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, René managed
HMC’s material Natural Resources portfolio of direct private investments while
maintaining his responsibility for the capital markets platform. During this time, René
was named Co-head of the Investment Committee and later formed the HMC Private
Credit team in January 2017 with Michael P. Guarnieri.
Prior to joining HMC, René spent 21 years at Lehman Brothers and Barclays Bank.
René 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, René 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, René 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.
René 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.
René graduated magna cum laude from Boston College with a BS in Finance.