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Operating from both coasts, ELF offers delayed draw term loans and forward flow purchase programs ranging in size from $50 – $150 million to emerging and established specialty finance companies with strong junior capital sponsorship. ELF targets ABF investments in granular pools of short-to-intermediate duration asset classes in the consumer and commercial finance sectors. Targeted consumer asset classes include unsecured installment and revolving loans (direct-to-consumer and point-of-sale), secured vehicle finance, home improvement loans, rent-to-own/lease-to-own, debt consolidation loans, and student lending (in-school vocational, refi). Targeted commercial asset classes include small balance SMB lending (both direct-to-business and embedded point-of-sale), merchant cash advance, small-ticket equipment finance, corporate charge card, earned wage access, and supply chain / trade finance. In addition, ELF provides streamlined “first-out” financing to other like-minded private credit investors in the specialty finance sector. ELF utilizes a combination of cutting-edge technologies and rigorous collateral-level analysis to generate differentiated investment insights and creative solutions to its counterparties’ credit portfolio financing needs.

We deploy senior debt capital secured by loans, receivables, or leases to select consumer and commercial specialty finance companies that possess strong management teams and a prudent credit risk culture.

EXPERIENCED TEAM

Deep domain expertise in non-bank specialty finance sector across both transaction structuring and credit risk management

CREATIVE SOLUTIONS

Use of innovative technology and rigorous collateral-level analysis to generate differentiated investment insights and creative ABF financing and purchase solutions

STRONG AND STABLE INSTITUTIONAL FUNDING

Substantial financial backing from affiliates of Goldman Sachs & Co. and Oaktree Capital Management