About Gallantree · New York
A New York credit manager building the alternative to the agencies.
Gallantree is the institutional originate-to-distribute platform for the US asset classes beyond the agency mandate — commercial real estate, middle-market corporate credit, and non-agency ABS. Headquartered in New York, with engineering roots in Brisbane. Powered by data, built for institutions.
Why Gallantree
A platform-native firm, built for the next chapter of US structured credit.
US structured credit is the largest and deepest market in the world, yet much of its infrastructure still runs on legacy systems, siloed vendors, and spreadsheet-driven workflows. Rated, transparent, platform-native programs that unify origination, structuring, trustee operations, and investor reporting under one operating model remain the exception, not the standard.
Gallantree was founded to change that. Headquartered in New York — with engineering roots in Brisbane — we combine the credit infrastructure, the technology platform, and the rated, reportable programs that connect originators to pension funds, insurance balance sheets, and global credit allocators. Institutional-grade, end to end, with no legacy systems and no conflicts inherited from a financial services parent.
Artisan, not industrial
Boutique precision over big-bank volume. Every program is crafted with institutional rigor and bespoke attention to structure.
Technology as an edge
Proprietary systems built in-house — not off-the-shelf. Our platform is a competitive moat, not a cost center.
Long-term alignment
Structured for outcomes, not transactions. We retain risk, invest alongside our partners, and build for decades.
Rated and transparent
Every program is rated, trustee-administered, and reported monthly to global CLO and CMBS disclosure standards. No opacity, no surprises, no special treatment for insiders.
"We're bringing an artisan's financial services experience to the US — powered by data, built for institutions."
New York · with roots in Brisbane
Headquartered in New York. Engineered in-house.
Gallantree is a New York firm. The business, the credit process, the capital markets, and every rated program are run from 1 Rockefeller Plaza, in the middle of the market we serve.
Our engineering platform was born in Brisbane, Australia, and a small technology team continues to build from that base. It is the quiet origin story behind the platform that powers every Gallantree program — not the front door of the firm, but part of why the infrastructure is different.
New York headquarters
We are headquartered on the 38th floor of 1 Rockefeller Plaza, in the middle of Midtown Manhattan, steps from the allocators, arrangers, rating agencies, and trustees that the structured credit market runs on. This is where the firm is run and where every program is originated, structured, and distributed.
Engineering roots in Brisbane
Gallantree began as an engineering thesis in Brisbane, Australia. The platform that powers every program — loan management, structuring, trustee operations, and investor reporting — was designed and built there, and a small engineering team continues to build from that base. It is our quiet origin story, not the front door of the firm.
Independent by design
Building outside the corridors of a legacy financial services parent is a deliberate choice. It lets us recruit from a different talent pool, operate without the herd mentality of the same handful of shops, and focus on credit quality and platform discipline rather than on volume through a broken pipe.
Our Just Cause
Enabling industry-specific capital for a global economy.
Our just cause is to enable industry-specific capital across the industries that drive the real economy — the US asset classes the agencies do not serve, distributed to global institutional capital. We support the growth of non-bank origination, give institutional allocators direct access to rated non-agency structured programs, and give managers the platform to compete on their terms. The full memo lays out the market we are building into, the six pillars of our strategy, and the company we intend to be at $5bn FUM.
Read the memoOur Story
From founding thesis to market infrastructure
Phase 1 · 2021 – 2023
Validation
Market mapping of US structured credit. Thesis validation with originators, trustees, rating agencies, and institutional allocators. Foundational IP built by a small engineering team in Brisbane; operating model defined.
Phase 2 · 2023 – 2024
Development
Proprietary platform built in-house across loan management, structuring, trustee operations, and investor reporting. Regulatory foundations laid and first program structures and capital partners locked in ahead of the US launch.
Phase 3 · 2025 – 2027
Launch
First Gallantree rated programs brought to market and the New York office opened at 1 Rockefeller Plaza. CRE CLO and Corporate Credit CLO issuance, with institutional allocations from US pension funds, insurance balance sheets, and global credit investors. Platform deployed to external clients.
Phase 4 · 2027 onwards
Growth and future
Scale across asset classes, including non-agency ABS and RMBS. Gallantree becomes the core institutional originate-to-distribute platform for US non-agency structured credit — connecting originators with global institutional capital through rated, transparent, platform-native programs run from New York.
At Gallantree, we are building US structured credit infrastructure the way institutional investors deserve it to be built: rated, transparent, and platform-native. We run the firm from New York and serve the asset classes the agencies do not — commercial real estate, middle-market corporate credit, and non-agency ABS — combining deep credit expertise with a platform engineered from the ground up. We invest alongside our partners through the life of every program. The goal is straightforward: to set a new standard for what non-agency structured credit can look like.
Brett Hales
Founder and Chief Executive
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We're a small, high-calibre team based in New York, building the institutional originate-to-distribute platform for the US asset classes beyond the agency mandate. If that sounds like your kind of challenge, we'd love to hear from you.
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