Investment Strategies
We invest in industries and companies where the demand for capital outpaces traditional supply, creating opportunities where risk is often mispriced. Our strategies prioritize capital preservation while seeking to generate consistent, attractive income.
Private Market Strategies
Opportunistic and Niche Direct Credit
- A strategy focused on liquidity solutions, growth and technology finance, loans to esoteric industries and specialty asset-based loans.
Cannabis-Focused Private Credit
- A strategy focused on senior secured credit solutions, primarily to state-licensed cannabis operators in the U.S.
Emerging Markets Private Credit
- A strategy that will focus on secured lending to government-linked and strategically important companies and projects in Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and Developing Europe.
Private Equity
- A strategy built on equity investments in overlooked or mispriced business opportunities.
Publicly Traded Investment Strategies
Chicago Atlantic BDC, Inc. (LIEN)
- The first publicly-listed BDC focused on the U.S. cannabis industry, primarily investing in direct loans to privately held middle-market cannabis companies.
Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance, Inc. (REFI)
- A commercial mortgage REIT that utilizes our real estate, credit and cannabis expertise.
