February 22, 2008
As traditional lending slows, mezzanine debt gains favor (As featured in Portland Business Journal)
In the movie "The Bucket List," actor Jack Nicholson, playing a health-care tycoon, rants about mezzanine financing shortly before tossing himself out...  (more...)

November 27, 2007
New buds on Rose’s Restaurant chain
(MIKE ROGOWAY - The Oregonian) Rose’s Restaurant and Bakery said Monday that it plans to add up to four restaurants in the Portland area, starting early...  (more...)

November 27, 2007
Money Matters: Equity sharing brings perils, pleasures (As featured in Daily Journal of Commerce column)
Q: Many private businesses are edgy about giving up equity, whether to an individual, a group of investors or a private equity firm. Under what circumstances...  (more...)

November 23, 2007
Windswept Capital Acquired by Aequitas Capital Management
Lake Oswego, Ore. - November 23, 2007 - Aequitas Capital Management, an alternative investment firm providing both debt and equity to companies throughout...  (more...)

November 6, 2007
Aequitas closes $2.8M funding for Syncronex
Aequitas Capital Management has provided $2.825 million in funding to Syncronex, Inc. to acquire the assets of its largest competitor, the Print Media...  (more...)

October 31, 2007
Oregon Boutique Seeks Capital (As featured in Institutional Investor magazine)
Ore.-based Aequitas Capital Management is seeking to raise an additional $100 million for its series of private equity and debt funds. The firm, which...  (more...)

October 31, 2007
Oregon Boutique Seeks Capital (As featured in Foundation and Endowment Money Management magazine)
Ore.-based Aequitas Capital Management is seeking to raise an additional $100 million for its series of private equity and debt funds. The firm, which manages...  (more...)

October 25, 2007
Glacier Bay Acquired by Aequitas Capital and Management Team
Glacier Bay Catamarans, LLC has announced that it has acquired the operations of Glacier Bay Inc. and will continue to build catamarans under the Glacier...  (more...)

October 24, 2007
RESOLUTE ANNOUNCES FIRST PREFERRED INVESTMENT ROUND OF $7.6M
Aequitas Capital Backs Resolute with Majority Investment Resolute Solutions Corporation, a technology consulting firm that leverages its expertise...  (more...)

October 16, 2007
Aequitas Capital Management Hires Managing Director of Infrastructure
Aequitas Capital Management has added Dennis Bishop as Managing Director in their Sustainable Infrastructure practice. Bishop joins Aequitas Capital...  (more...)

October 12, 2007
Restaurant Developers Turn to Imaginative Designs (As featured in Portland Business Journal)
Though better known for locally sourced menus than extravagant decors, several newly developed Portland restaurants are embracing the concept of dining-as-entertainment. And...  (more...)

September 28, 2007
Hungry Investors: Alternatives top the menu of investment choices (As featured in The Buisness Journal- Portland)
Individual investors are hungry, and they've got an appetite for the strong returns associated with investment alternatives to traditional stock...  (more...)

September 18, 2007
Money Matters: The Creative Role of Alternative Financing (As featured in Daily Journal of Commerce column)
Question: I am the CEO and part owner of a well-capitalized and profitable company. I am interested in growing the business, possibly by acquiring...  (more...)

September 10, 2007
Aequitas Capital Management hires executive vice president to oversee infrastructure financing practice
After a year leading the formation of Greenlight Greater Portland and facilitating the transition to a newly recruited full-time president and CEO, MacRitchie...  (more...)

August 28, 2007
Money Matters: Investing in Private Equity? (As featured in Daily Journal of Commerce column)
Bob Jesenik Money Matters Q: I’ll be retiring in about 10 years and am considering investing about 10 percent of my retirement funds in so-called...  (more...)

July 24, 2007
Money Matters: Mezzanine financing could take business higher (As featured in The Daily Journal of Commerce column)
The structure can work if you have a track record of success Q: I’m a business owner and need capital to expand to the next level. We have a solid...  (more...)

June 28, 2007
Middle Child Syndrome (As featured in Worth Online)
New tactics that help mid-market companies thrive. You’ve heard of the middle-child syndrome: The family focus often goes to the older overachiever...  (more...)

June 25, 2007
Aequitas Capital Management Funds Paramount Graphics
Portland, Ore. - Alternative investment firm Aequitas Capital Management, Inc., announced today that its Aequitas Catalyst Fund has acquired locally...  (more...)

June 19, 2007
Aequitas Capital Management Partners in Strategic Expansion for Safe Renewables Corporation
Lake Oswego, Ore. - Aequitas Capital Management has partnered with Breakwater Investments in the commercial financing of Safe Renewables Corporation...  (more...)

June 1, 2007
New Energy on Renewable Energy (As featured in Oregon Business Magazine)
Substitute renewable energy for computers, and 20 years later, it’s happening again -- in a big way. The renewable energy market has never been as hot...  (more...)

May 18, 2007
Late Patients Automatically Given No-Interest Credit Cards (As featured in Collections and Credit World)
A private equity company is partnering with hospitals to automatically enroll late-paying patients in a no-interest credit card program. Portland, Ore.-based...  (more...)

May 15, 2007
Aequitas Capital Management Invests $1.175 M in N.W. Hayden Enterprises
Portland, Ore. - May 15, 2007 - Alternative investment firm Aequitas Capital Management, Inc., announced today that it has led a new investment round of...  (more...)

May 4, 2007
Aequitas Capital Management Announces its First Canadian Transactions
Portland, Ore. - May 4, 2007 - Alternative investment firm Aequitas Capital Management, Inc., through its wholly owned Canadian finance subsidiary Aequitas...  (more...)

May 1, 2007
Aequitas Capital Management Provides Funds to Capital Growth Systems, Inc.
Alternative investment firm Aequitas Capital Management, Inc., announced today that it has invested $2,000,000 into Capital Growth Systems, Inc (CGSI),...  (more...)

April 12, 2007
Aequitas Capital Management Invests in Telanetix
Portland, Ore. - Alternative investment firm Aequitas Capital Management, Inc., announces two investments with Telanetix, Inc., a publicly traded, San...  (more...)

April 11, 2007
Fiserv Provides Processing Services to Aequitas Capital’s Carepayment Program
Lake Mary, Fla. April 11, 2007 - Fiserv Credit Processing Services, a business unit of Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), announced today that Aequitas Capital...  (more...)

April 9, 2007
Delta County Memorial Hospital announces new interest-free, extended-term financing program available to all patients
Faced with rising health care costs and increasing patient financial responsibility, a new 0.00% financing program at Delta County Memorial Hospital provides...  (more...)

April 2, 2007
Stuck in the Middle (Market) With You (As featured in Commerce magazine)
In today’s business, top fortune 500 companies are the darlings of Wall Street and start-ups catch the attention of venture capitalists and angel investors,...  (more...)

March 27, 2007
Carondelet Offers a New Payment Plan (As featured in Kansas City Star)
HEALTH NOTES Carondelet offers a new payment plan In another linkup of the health care and financial service worlds, Carondelet Health is offering...  (more...)

March 26, 2007
Small-Cap With Big Promise (As featured in Barrons Online)
Looking for another reason to short the airline industry over the long haul? Thanks to the generosity of the federal bankruptcy code and relentless...  (more...)

March 19, 2007
Carondelet Health Announces New Interest-Free, Extended-Term Financing Program Available to All Patients (As featured in Carondelet Health)
Kansas City, Missouri - To provide patients with more payment options and help ease concerns about how to cover the ever-increasing number of...  (more...)

March 1, 2007
Alternative Energy Projects Heat Up at Aequitas Capital Management
Portland, Ore - Portland-based alternative investment firm Aequitas Capital Management, Inc. completed a four-month wind energy project transaction...  (more...)

February 26, 2007
Aequitas announces the hiring of two new managers for Healthcare Division
Portland, Ore - Aequitas Capital Management is pleased to announce the hiring of Trent Bangerter and Scott Long as Business Development Managers...  (more...)

February 20, 2007
Patricia Brown joins Aequitas Capital as Project Controller
Patricia Brown joins Aequitas Capital Management as Project Controller. Prior to Aequitas, she was with Standard Insurance from 1992 - 2004, most recently...  (more...)

February 18, 2007
Portland company promotes a zero-interest medical card
A Portland company is promoting a medical credit card with an unlikely promise: zero interest and finance charges -- ever. The CarePayment card marketed...  (more...)