EOS launches hotel credit strategy

NEW YORK CITY — New York City-based EOS Investors has held a first close of approximately $150 million in commitments on its inaugural hotel credit strategy. The strategy will focus on senior whole loans, mezzanine financing and structured debt opportunities in the hospitality sector.

EOS Credit Partners is led by Christopher Jordan, a real estate banking veteran who joined the firm after more than 30 years at Wells Fargo, where he served in a number of senior and executive management roles, most recently as executive vice president and group head of Hospitality Finance and Specialty Real Estate Finance.

Both Jordan and EOS founder and chairman Jonathan Wang spoke with Hotel Investment Today in January for a video interview at the America’s Lodging Investment Summit (ALIS) event in Los Angeles.

Wang said the firm first began looking at the opportunity in 2022, when interest rates started rising.

“We looked around and said, ‘Gosh, the risk return of credit actually feels a lot better than the risk return of equity,’ which is why we've been so slow to invest on the equity side. But we also acknowledged that we didn't have the expertise in-house to do this on our own,” he said.

So in early 2025, Wang and Jordan started discussing possibilities that Wang said, “could actually create something special and really fill a void in the industry.”

Jordan said the “ecosystem shift” in commercial real estate credit created this opportunity.

“The traditional participants and those who have dominated lending historically have clearly pulled back. We think that's a structural thing, not a temporary thing. So we saw the opportunity to fill the void left by some of those traditional lenders,” he said.

Jordan said EOS Credit Strategy will fill a unique void with its skill sets around equity investing and operations, as well as the new credit platform.

“Not many firms have all three of those capabilities. If you can combine those three, it gives you a lot of competitive advantages,” he said. “There's a lot of synergies. We're very excited about being a value-add partner to the industry. We really think we're going to be a great financing partner for many of our peers and many of the people I formally worked with.”

Click below for the full video interview with Wang and Jordan.

While at Wells Fargo, Jordan launched the firm’s hospitality finance unit in 2009 and scaled the business into one of the largest lodging and leisure balance sheet lending platforms in the U.S. He subsequently led the expansion of the platform into a multi-sector, specialty real estate lending business.

EOS has been active in the lodging sector since its founding in 2017 and owns a diversified hotel equity portfolio and operates nearly 60 hotels through EOS Hospitality, which collectively generates approximately $800 million in gross annual property-level revenue.