Our Location

Investors

// Chicago Address

Granite Creek Partners
222 W Adams Street, Suite 1980
Chicago, IL 60606

// China Address

NO. 121 YongHua Street
Shi Qiao Road, Xia Cheng Qu
Hangzhou, China 310022

// Phone

(312) 895 4500

// Fax

(312) 895 4509

Our Business » Specialty Finance

Granite Creek seeks unique opportunities to provide capital for situations that require specialty financings. We look across a broad spectrum of niche markets to find segments that are underserved or ignored by commercial banks or other institutional investors. Our goal is to identify and penetrate unconventional credits and equity investments to earn superior risk-adjusted returns.

Targeted investments of these specialty finance opportunities are:

Investment Size:
  • $1 to $10 million (and larger through use of co-investment partners)
Investment Types:
  • Bridge Loans
  • Debtor in Possession Loans
  • Distressed Acquisitions
  • Operational Turnarounds
  • Structured Financings
Securities:
  • First Lien Secured Loans
  • “First Out” Participations
  • Convertible Debt
  • Growth and Control Equity
Deal Characteristics:
  • Niche markets
  • Good collateral base
  • Scalable operations
  • Well-developed back office
  • Experienced management
Industries:
  • General
Transaction Types:
  • Small Business finance
  • Cash Flow lending
  • Sub Prime finance
  • Other alternative lending products

In 2011, Granite Creek partnered with an experienced and entrepreneurial management team to found a unique specialty finance company to fill a void that exists in the real estate marketplace.

Renovo Financial, L.L.C.

  • Renovo is a specialty finance company that makes short-term mortgage loans to bank-quality rehabbers acquiring and rehabilitating distressed properties
  • Renovo’s objective is to provide attractive risk-adjusted returns by providing capital to a large, but underserved niche, while taking commensurately lower risk due to a strong collateral package supporting each loan.
  • The Principals of Renovo bring extensive local and national experience in residential and commercial real estate lending, rehab construction, and the management of specialty finance companies.
  • Renovo seeks to become the #1 national, centralized, rehab lending company in America, by being the most important, long-term, stable source of financing for rehab investors
  • The business model for Renovo is built on streamlined procedures to efficiently source opportunities, assess credits, monitor projects and exit successfully from transactions.

For additional information, please visit Renovo’s website.