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Top Senior Lenders in Chicago - Axial

There are 9 Top Senior Lenders in Chicago featured on Axial's lower middle market Directory. This Directory is populated with data from Axial's digital deal marketing and deal sourcing platform. Interested in connecting with other Top Senior Lenders in Chicago like these? Click here to join Axial. Let Axial help you identify your next M&A opportunity.

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Whitehorse Capital Management, LLC Actively Sourcing Deals

Senior Lender
  • Actively Sourcing Deals
  • 10 Total Closed Deals
Whitehorse Capital Management is the $12BN direct lending arm of H.I.G. Capital. Whitehorse provides debt financing to performing middle market companies in the U.S. and Canada. Our firm has a broad investment mandate to provide senior, subordinated, and unitranche debt for refinancings, growth capital, acquisitions, buyouts, and balance sheet recapitalizations. Whitehorse can underwrite up to $250MM per transaction and is industry agnostic in nature.
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Jun 2023
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May 2023
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Apr 2023
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Feb 2023
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Garrington Capital Actively Sourcing Deals

Senior Lender
  • Actively Sourcing Deals
  • This member has no reported closed transactions.

Garrington Capital provides alternative financing solutions to entrepreneurs and emerging businesses, allowing you to quickly access funding, without the need for traditional bank financing.With over $6.3 Billion deployed across North America since inception1, combined active loans totalling over $450 million and 325 financing facilities in 39 states and provinces2, we are one of North America’s fastest growing capital providers.

LQD Business Finance

Senior Lender
  • 20 Total Closed Deals
LQD Business Finance is a direct lender that provides structured, transparent, and affordable business loans of $250K-$5M with it's proprietary underwriting and risk management software, LQD Matrix. While capitalizing on the inadequacies of existing lenders, we are able to design a business loan product that exceeds the limitations of the current small business lending market, and are able to deliver the only structured loan available to small businesses through a quick and convenient process. Additionally, because of our ability to lend higher principal amounts with lower rates and longer…
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Feb 2018
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Feb 2018
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Jan 2018
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Dec 2017
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Cencor Capital, LLC

Senior Lender
  • 19 Total Closed Deals
Originally established in 1992, Rosemont, IL (Chicago) based Cencor Capital, LLC is an independent leasing company. Our principal focus is to provide equipment-based financing to US private and public companies acquiring a variety of revenue generating capital equipment including: IT / data center infrastructure, telecommunications, enterprise software, medical, imaging, lab & testing, material handling, ff&e, manufacturing and construction, etc. Transaction size is $500K to $15M and may include both new and ‘in-place’ equipment. A wide variety of traditional financing, capital leases,…
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Apr 2018
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Monroe Capital LLC

Senior Lender
  • 7 Total Closed Deals
Monroe Capital is a private credit asset management firm specializing in direct lending and opportunistic private credit investing. Since 2004, the firm has provided private credit solutions to borrowers in the U.S. and Canada. Monroe’s middle market lending platform provides senior and junior debt financing to businesses, special situation borrowers, and private equity sponsors. Investment types include unitranche financings; cash flow, asset based and enterprise value based loans; and equity co-investments. Monroe is committed to being a value-added and user-friendly partner to business…
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Dec 2014
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Mar 2014
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Gibraltar Business Capital

Senior Lender
  • 1 Total Closed Deal
Based in Chicago, Gibraltar Business Capital is a subsidiary of Gibraltar Capital Holdings, a long-standing, well-capitalized national small-business lender serving companies in the lower middle market. We handle loan structures ranging from traditional, non-bank asset based lending supported by accounts receivable and inventory, to factoring lines of credit using accounts receivable, to Chapter 11 financing or post-bankruptcy funding. Our market-leading small-business loan solutions, backed by long-term investments from Southern California’s CCCC Growth Fund and Dallas-based Satori…
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Mar 2016
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NXT Capital

Senior Lender

    This member has no reported closed transactions.

As a structured finance leader with more than $6 billion in funding capacity, NXT Capital Equipment Finance specializes in providing significant financings (up to $40MM) to help companies with elevated leverage profiles acquire the mission critical equipment they need to grow. NXT Capital is an independent commercial finance company created by the former leaders of Merrill Lynch Capital and Heller Financial.

Byline Bank

Senior Lender

    This member has no reported closed transactions.

Byline Bank is a full-service commercial bank with nearly $6.5 billion in assets, serving small businesses, mid-market companies, and consumers.Operating over 50 branch locations throughout the Chicago and Milwaukee metro areas, Byline’s been a community partner in its neighborhoods for over 100 years.In addition to being the #2 SBA lender in the nation, Byline offers a competitive range of commercial lending products backed by experts with decades of experience in the industry.

UBS O'Connor LLC

Senior Lender

    This member has no reported closed transactions.

O'Connor is dedicated to absolute return investment management and manages USD 5.7 billion (as of 1 September 2015) in non-traditional strategies through its Global Long/Short Equities, Credit Long/Short, Merger Arbitrage and Convertible Securities programs. O'Connor has a global trading platform with offices located in Chicago, London, New York, Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo.

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