Chris Allman
Partner – Capital Markets
CIM Group

Chris Allman is a Principal/Partner and Head of Capital Markets at the CIM Group. Over the course of his career Mr. Allman has sourced and closed, as both a lender and borrower, more than 900 individual financing transactions spanning real assets, entity level, and C&I collateral, totaling more than $115 billion in loan commitments. He serves on CIM’s Investment and Credit Committees. In addition, he is a member of the Board of Directors for Commercial Lending REIT (NTR: CMFT, CLR), and a member of the Valuation Committee for the Real Assets and Credit Fund (“RACR”). Prior to joining CIM in 2013, Mr. Allman was a Vice President at Thayer Lodging Group/Brookfield Hotels, Vice President in Capmark’s Hospitality Industry Division and an Investment Performance Analyst at Cambridge Associates. He earned Bachelor of Science degrees in Finance and Environmental Science from Virginia Tech, a Master’s degree from Georgetown University, and a Master of Business Administration degree from S.C. Johnson School of Business at Cornell University.

Private Equity professional focused on Debt Capital Markets across the commercial real estate, infra, and credit sectors. My aim is not only to secure superior debt executions for CIM Group’s investors, and related companies, but also to drive company growth by: 1) leveraging Capital Markets relationships to generate proprietary deal flow for the Firm’s various investment vehicles; and 2) raising equity capital for the Firm via the wealth management and investment arms of our banking and LifeCo partners. Examples include:

Capital Markets: Originated, negotiated, and closed over 925 individual asset and corporate/entity level financings, as either a lender or borrower, totaling more than $115 billion in loan commitments. In addition, I’ve successfully restructured a combined $15 billion in asset and corporate/entity level debt. Significant experience directly originating and executing, as both a lender and borrower, the following capital structure solutions: traditional balance sheet executions (bank, life co., private/alternative credit), structured finance solutions – A/B, A/Mezz/ straight mezz, pref, etc., CMBS, agency (Fannie, Freddie, HUD), CLOs, ABS, warehouse and repo facilities for credit platforms, NAV facilities, unsecured term loans and revolvers across real estate, credit, infra, and operating companies, debt private placements, capital call/sublines/equity bridge loans, public and private bond issuance (IG & high yield), loan syndications, ratings (drove ratings process for 6-entities that secured IG ratings (published and unpublished) from one or more of Moody’s, S&P, Fitch, Kroll, and DBRS.

Investment Opportunities/Proprietary Deal Flow: While at CIM, I’ve leveraged long-standing relationships at some of the largest financial institutions to generate closed Investments for the Firm exceeding $6.5 billion for various investment strategies including Credit, Infrastructure, and Opportunistic Real Estate Equity. These Investments have included co-originated loans, whole and syndicated loan purchases & participations, and Discounted Note & Distressed Debt Purchases.

Equity Capital Formation: Over the last three years, I’ve expanded my focus at CIM to include equity capital formation via the private wealth management channels of our banking partners. Since I assumed responsibility for this initiative, CIM has launched investment products focused on UHNW, QP’s, and Accredited Investors with 11 distinct banking institutions resulting in more than $1.5 billion in closed equity capital commitments for the Firm’s various investment vehicles.