Summary

Belgravia Capital is an investment bank headquartered in Orange County, California which services client's world wide. The firm provides lending for performing and non-performing commercial real estate debt purchases as well as a variety of advisory services. Belgravia is an investment company specializing in commercial loan origination, acquisition and trading arbitrage.

History

Belgravia Capital was founded in 1984 by RJ Brandes as a commercial lender and quickly became an early leader in the emerging field of commercial mortgage securitization. In 1991, Belgravia Capital originated the first CMBS pool (Daiwa MHP 1991-1) in a partnership with Heller Financial and Daiwa Securities. By the mid 90's, Belgravia had established itself as the primary provider of capital to the Self Storage and Mobile Home Park industries and had become one of the few off-Wall Street firms actively originating and securitizing CMBS product. At the same time Belgravia's Securities division had become an early pioneer in the structuring of debt for pre-IPO REITs. Belgravia continued to evolve as a pioneer in the commercial real estate arena, ultimately become the 6th largest CMBS lender in the US. Belgravia was an early mezzanine lender with its Belgravia/ Westbrook Mezzanine fund which was established in 1998. In 2002, Belgravia Capital entered the alternative energy arena and most recently in 2007 Belgravia Capital established itself a leader in commercial real estate.

Core Business

As the FDIC continues to seize various lending agencies throughout the US, Belgravia Capital has established itself as a intrumental player in the distressed loan market. Belgravia Capital is currently trading performing and non-performing securitized pools of commercial real estate securities as well as whole loans. Belgravia Capital's expertise in the debt market has evolved into a commercial loan acquisition platform that provides financing options for loan purchases and for borrowers in distress.

Partnering

Belgravia Capital has established many key partnerships to assist its clients in the current market.

The Belgravia-Gemini Fund is a venture between Belgravia Capital and Gemini Parterns. Genmini Partenrs is located in Los Angeles, California and operates as a boutique investment bank providing corporate finance and M&A services to middle market companies.

Belgravia Capital has partnered with Kosmont Companies in an effort to improve public and private developments that are in distressed situations. Kosmont Companies is a development services firm that specializes in municipal planning and re-development projects.