Investment Strategies

Our expertise in sourcing, rigorous evaluation, structuring and risk management helps investors access differentiated return streams.

Overview Private Market Strategies Publicly Traded Strategies

Overview

Chicago Atlantic’s investing platform seeks to capitalize investment opportunities that are time-sensitive, complex, or in dislocated markets, where we believe risk is fundamentally mispriced.

Chicago Atlantic has grown to a team of over 85 investment and central functions professionals.

Chicago Atlantic Advisers, LLC is an SEC-registered investment adviser.

Disciplined Investment Process

  • We diligently scrutinize opportunities where few willing capital providers with requisite expertise are present, providing an opportunity to capture excess returns.
  • Our team of over 30 investment professionals has the ability to navigate complexity to extract incremental value.
  • We look for a real “Reason to Exist” in our investment targets, be it geographical or market dominance, low cost producers, long-run demand for services or products, or fill a presently underserved niche.
  • We supplement our structural downside protection by securing contractual cash flows or assets like receivables, real estate, or equipment.

Diversified Business Development Platform

  • Chicago Atlantic maintains principal offices in Chicago, Miami, New York and London with additional team members based in Texas, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and California.
  • Reputation for reliable, efficient, and predictable execution.
  • Long-standing relationships with investment banks, joint venture partners, and other intermediaries.

Investment Vehicles

  • Our investments are available to investors through a series of private funds, a publicly traded commercial mortgage REIT (Nasdaq: REFI) and a publicly traded BDC (Nasdaq: LIEN).
  • We are proud of maintaining over 950 active investor relationships across institutions, registered investment advisers, private banks, and family offices.

Private Market Strategies

Opportunistic Credit & Equity

Opportunistic Credit & Equity

Utilizes our expertise in esoteric industries, growth finance, and asset-based lending while taking advantage of market dislocations to deliver consistent cash income with the potential for equity upside, low volatility, and liquidity.

Publicly Traded Strategies

Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance

Learn about our publicly traded cannabis mortgage REIT, Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance, Inc. (Nasdaq: REFI)

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Chicago Atlantic BDC, Inc. Chicago Atlantic BDC, Inc.

Learn about our publicly traded cannabis BDC, Chicago Atlantic BDC, Inc.
(Nasdaq: LIEN)

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