Canyon Partners Expands U.S. Mortgage Platform with Hire of Chad Goodman

Canyon Partners Real Estate has hired Related Fund Management alum Chad Goodman to head lending in the US East and Central regions. The hiring continues the strengthening of the manager's origination and capital markets teams, which includes recent names from origins such as Acore Capital and Mack Real Estate Group. The movement reflects the dizzying growth of private credit in the American real estate sector, driven by the more selective stance of regional banks. The expansion opens up perspectives for Brazilian institutional and private wealth investors interested in North American real estate debt funds with attractive risk-adjusted returns. Investment manager Canyon Partners Real Estate has taken another significant step toward consolidating its presence in the U.S. commercial real estate lending market by hiring Chad Goodman as head of credit for the East and Central regions of the country. Based in New York, the executive brings substantial experience in originating and structuring transitional and high-yield loans, reinforcing the platform's direct origination capacity in strategic real estate markets in the North American territory. Goodman joins Canyon Partners after six years at Related Fund Management, where he worked on structuring credit strategies and opportunistic real estate financings. With previous stints at Westport Capital Partners for almost twelve years and Bear Stearns, the professional has extensive experience in structuring securitized products, real estate securities and private debt throughout multiple market cycles. His arrival aims to intensify the manager's relationship with sponsors and borrowers in the most dynamic regions of the East and Central American coasts. The executive's arrival is part of an orchestrated expansion movement for Canyon Partners Real Estate's senior private credit team. In recent months, the firm has brought on Scott Swisher (formerly of Acore Capital) to lead credit origination in the West Region, as well as Adam Ostrowsky (formerly of Mack Real Estate Group) to focus on capital markets and Scott San Filippo (formerly of Heitman) to focus on bridge debt. The sequence of hires highlights the manager's thesis of building one of the most complete private real estate debt platforms in the United States. The acceleration of appetite for private real estate credit in the US occurs in a scenario of profound transformation of the financial system. With the more cautious stance of North American regional banks — historically the largest providers of financing for the commercial real estate sector — a substantial liquidity gap has opened up. Alternative real estate private equity managers and private credit funds have assumed a central role in providing bridge loans, mezzanine financing and transitional capital for high value-added projects. In an environment of interest rates maintained at high levels by the Federal Reserve, floating rate debt instruments offer extremely attractive nominal returns for institutional investors. The growth of structured credit operations allows managers to capture robust credit spreads while maintaining conservative loan-to-value (LTV) ratios, ensuring substantial asset protection in the event of stress in the underlying real estate market. For Brazilian institutional investors and family offices seeking international diversification in dollars, the advancement of private real estate credit in the USA appears as one of the most balanced alternatives between risk and return. Instead of assuming pure equity risk in physical assets when valuations are repaced, allocation to real estate credit funds managed by consolidated platforms such as Canyon Partners allows for predictable cash flows, anchored in real guarantees from the American market. The movement of senior talent among large US managers reinforces that quality origination capacity will be a game changer in the coming quarters. Tailored debt structuring for commercial, multifamily residential, and logistics projects in dynamic regions — including the Sun Belt and East Coast states — will continue to drive the growth of independent private credit platforms