Canyon Partners

About The Fund

Canyon Partners is an investment firm headquartered in Los Angeles, California, founded in 1990, specializing in credit-oriented investments. They are known as value-oriented specialists with global reach, focusing on performing and non-performing corporate securities, structured or asset-backed securities, and real estate investment. Their real estate activities are comprehensive, providing debt and equity capital to real estate owners, operators, developers, corporations, and entrepreneurs. They strive to achieve superior, risk-adjusted returns, significantly exceeding debt and equity market indices with substantially lower volatility. Canyon Partners utilizes a deep value, credit intensive approach across corporate situations, structured credit, and direct real estate lending and investing for over 30 years. Their strategies include capital solutions and multi-strategy credit to weather various market conditions, distressed opportunities to capture stressed and special situations, and real estate investment across value and opportunistic strategies. They also partake in structured credit/CLOs, involving residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities, collateralized loan obligations, and other asset-backed securities. Committed to sustainable investing, they have an Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) strategy to integrate long-lasting credit experience with analysis, engagement, and thematic investing. Moreover, Canyon Partners offers liquid credit strategies, leveraging their expertise up and down the capital structure and across both corporate and structured credit. They aim to cultivate long-term partnerships with investors through alignment, collaboration, and investment rigor, embodying their values of learning, insight, judgment, collaboration, and engagement. The leadership at Canyon is seasoned, with Co-Founders, Co-Chairmen, and Co-CEOs Josh Friedman and Mitch Julis leading a global team of more than 200 professionals, including 70+ investment professionals and 140+ business and operations professionals.