Aequum Capital Launches Specialty Lending Platform Founded by Five Seasoned Finance Executives

Chicago, IL February 1, 2022

ae●quum \’ai-kwum (Latin): what is right, fair, or equitable.                                

Specialty finance and commercial lending veterans John Stanfield, Orasio Becerra, Michael Keenan, John Ross, and Rick Kaufmann are pleased to announce the launch of Aequum Capital, a tech-enabled, national commercial lender based in Chicago. Aequum Capital provides $1 to $10 million Asset-Based (ABL) and Cash Flow loans to companies across most industries that seek financing outside of traditional banking for short-term special situations or long-term growth. Aequum Capital takes a consultative lending approach that includes improving clients’ Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) policies to enhance their business operations and provide a clear path to traditional bank financing.

Backed by a global alternative investment firm with approximately $21 billion in assets under management, Aequum Capital is well capitalized and together with Aequum’s management team and proprietary lending platform, is optimally positioned to address the underserved gap in the small business lending market.

With over 120 years of combined experience in financing and scaling entrepreneurial companies, Aequum Capital's founding principals’ professional careers span across banking institutions, family offices, and specialty finance companies. In aggregate, they have successfully closed more than $5 billion of debt transactions across 300 commercial borrowers.

The principals, who have worked together for decades, offered the following joint statement: “Together, we founded Aequum Capital under three guiding principles: First, to provide a needed solution to an underserved segment of the market through our long-standing relationships and knowledge of the industry; second, to create a firm with a culture of execution to navigate borrower timelines while maintaining our core credit focus; third and most importantly, to combine our collective skill set in underwriting, credit, risk, sales, finance, technology, and software development to produce lending solutions in an accurate, timely, and efficient manner.”

For more information please contact:

Orasio Becerra, Co-President, Aequum Capital

orasiobecerra@aequumcapital.com

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