Credit and Special Situations

Providing creative capital solutions across non-traditional corporate lending, specialty finance and special situations

For over 20 years, Siguler Guff has met the complex capital needs of management teams, sponsors, advisors and other investment managers throughout the private credit ecosystem. The Credit and Special Situations platform offers several differentiated investment strategies to our clients, and has a long history of delivering consistent, less correlated risk-adjusted returns across market cycles. Through a disciplined but dynamic approach, we target absolute return opportunities through investments across specialty finance, corporate lending, dislocated market trades, and other special situation opportunities.

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$8B

invested

400+

transactions

20+ YRS

average experience of senior team

Investment Criteria

Products

Corporate Lending and Capital Solutions
- Secured and junior loans
- Mezzanine
- Preferred and common equity
Specialty Finance
- Structured finance
- Real asset lending, including real estate
- Regulatory capital relief
- Litigation finance
- Trade & receivables finance
- Royalty finance
Dislocated Opportunities
- Secondary purchases of corporate credit, structured credit, and LP interests

Transaction Types

Direct corporate loans and investments
Buyouts, growth-related capital, refinancings and recapitalizations
Bridge / rescue financings
Specialty financing
Opportunistic secondary purchases

Investment Focus

Primarily focused on companies with $10-$50 million of EBITDA
Private equity sponsors, independent sponsors, and privately held or public businesses
Negotiated, highly structured financings for complex situations
Niche assets with low correlation to broader capital markets
Misunderstood & mispriced publicly and privately traded securities
Capability of investments of over $100 million

Investment Criteria

Downside protection through structure, asset coverage and cash flow
Fundamentally sound businesses
Demonstrable upside through improved operations, business growth, or market recovery
Experienced, aligned management teams and investment partners