Considering Collateral

New York Private Finance is all but unique in our willingness to take illiquid assets as collateral for our loans. To facilitate these structures, we seek to craft a diversified pool of collateral assets. The primary reason is to minimize risk to our clients.  Diversification is a classic mechanism to accomplish this goal, and we …

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Why Not Franchisees?

Recently, New York Private Finance received an inquiry from a middle-market entrepreneur who was evaluating the prospect of acquiring several fast-food franchises. Having come across our website and recognized that we were willing to take illiquid assets as collateral for personal debt, he wondered if we could lend him money, secured by his ownership interests …

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Brooklyn Bridge during golden hour

Are You an Executive Producer?

Are You an Executive Producer? The team at New York Private Finance loves film, but none of us had been involved in film production until quite recently. As a result, we only came to properly understand the meaning of the term, “executive producer“, in the past few months. For those not involved in film, an …

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Maturity

New York Private Finance structures loan facilities with tenors of three to six years. Why do we do this? The primary reason is to ensure that our clients have plenty of time to execute on a strategic vision without feeling the burden of near-term principal repayments. This is especially important in recent years, as bank …

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When IPOs Stall: A Smarter Venture Capital Liquidity Solution

When IPOs Stall: A Smarter Venture Capital Liquidity Solution

Since the burgeoning growth of the initial public offering markets in the 1980’and ’90’s, the conventional mechanism for venture capitalists to exit their investments in emerging private technology companies has been the public market.  Since the tech bubble burst in the early 2000’s followed by the financial crisis in 2008, however, the tech IPO alternative …

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