A $2.4M bridge, closed in three weeks.
When a long-established Canadian manufacturer lost its bank line at the worst possible moment, we lent against the plant and equipment it already owned — and kept the business moving.
A profitable, established manufacturer with real estate and machinery on its balance sheet — squeezed on liquidity when its bank stepped back during a broader tightening. The assets were there. The clock was the problem.
A wall that had nothing to do with the business.
The company had run profitably for three decades. Then, during a broader credit tightening, its bank reduced the operating line it had relied on for years. Payroll, suppliers, and a committed production run were all due within the month.
It owned its plant and its equipment outright — but conventional lenders move on their own calendar, and this could not wait.
Where a committee saw uncertainty, we saw collateral.
Real, saleable, and unencumbered. The question was never whether the company was creditworthy — only how fast capital could be put against assets that were already there.
We valued the assets ourselves
The building, the land, and a floor of well-maintained machinery — assessed directly, not through a drawn-out third-party process.
We structured the facility
A fixed-rate, fixed-term bridge of $2.4M, secured against the real estate and equipment — clear terms, no surprises.
We moved at principal speed
First call to funded in three weeks. One principal, one decision — no committee, no theatre.
Capital against assets it already owned — in weeks, not months.
The company met payroll, paid its suppliers, and completed the production run. Fourteen months later — stable, and back in favour with conventional credit — it refinanced the bridge with a bank on ordinary terms and moved on.
That is what asset-based lending is for: a real answer, quickly, when the assets are real and the timing matters.
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