Equity Capital Management
Equity Capital Management, LLC (ECM) is a private equity real estate investment firm specializing in the corporate sale leaseback and net lease markets.
History
The firm is based in Chicago with offices and affiliates in New York, St. Louis, and Bern (Switzerland). The founders of Equity Capital Management have made over $1 billion in net lease investments since 1989. Affiliates of Transwestern Investment Company have historically committed significant capital to ECM’s Funds. Transwestern has made over 425 property investments totaling in excess of $8.6 billion through a series of institutional real estate funds.
Investment Focus
ECM invests primarily in the following areas: sale leasebacks and net lease investment to corporations with investment grade credit. Corporations have included AT&T Inc. ,Fiserv, Walgreens, DuPont , Deutsche Telekom.
Investment Funds
ECM invests through a series of private limited liability companies and REIT’s and its investors include a wide variety of pension funds, money managers, non-for profits, high net worth, and other institutional investors:
- ECM Income & Growth Fund III
- ECM Diversified Income & Growth Fund
- ECM Income & Growth Fund
- ECM International Real Estate Fund
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Further reading
- • Sale-Leaseback Sticker Shock. Wall Street Journal, July 15, 2009
- • Low Profile Firm Aiming to Raise $250 million. Chicago Real Estate Daily, May 29, 2008
- • Equity Capital Management Seeks Sale Leasebacks. Real Estate Finance and Investment, April 27, 2009
- • iStar Fund to Target Sale-Leasebacks. Real Estate Alert, June 10, 2009
- • Cash-Hungry Companies Turn to Leaseback Deals. The New York Times, January 28, 2009
- • Low-profile firm aiming to raise $250 million. Chicago Real Estate Daily, May 29, 2008
- • Investors Say Appeal of SLB Stronger Than Ever. Net Lease Forum, March 18, 2008
- • Setting Sail - Capital Gains. St. Louis Business Journal, January 27, 2006
- • Koman, Pruett creating $150 million property fund. St. Louis Business Journal, September 12, 2003
External links
- Equity Capital Management (company website)