GCI Strategic Capital
GCI’s Strategic Capital team provides flexible capital through innovative structures to assist mid-sized businesses with navigating strategic or operational challenges.
Our loan facilities are tailored to enable borrowers to achieve a particular outcome or milestone. Our flexible capital structures are not typically available from traditional banks or lenders.
Target Clients
Target Clients
GCI’s Strategic Capital team will consider borrowers in any industry, with the exception of the construction and development sectors. Borrowers typically require loan facilities with a shorter term (1 – 3 years) with an ability to demonstrate a clear plan or pathway to repayment.
Facility Overview
Facility Overview
Typically, our funding solutions are:
- Senior debt facilities
- Secured by some type of assets
- $5 million to $50 million
- Between 1 and 3 years
For more detail on innovative and flexible funding structures, start a conversation with our Strategic Capital team.
Funding Criteria
Funding Criteria
Strategic Capital
Our lending criteria is flexible and loan terms can be tailored to individual borrower situations and requirements.
When looking at your unique opportunity, our team will look for:
- An experienced and capable management team
- Headquartered in Australia or New Zealand
- Robust systems and processes
- Strong collateral
- Passionate management and shareholders with “skin in the game”
Providing more than just funding
We think like business owners, not bankers. Our specialist teams will work with you to deal with complexity, and provide you with what we believe is “Value Added Credit” that GCI has become known and respected for.
Our Value Added Credit approach includes
Insights
Our specialist expertise and analytical frameworks allow us to deal with complexity and fairly value standard and non-standard assets.Advice
Our collective experience and expertise allows us to provide clients with recommendations to reduce risk and optimise growth plans.Speed
Our nimble team and efficient processes mean we can provide a clear path to funding or a quick and clear no.Network
We provide access to our extensive domestic and international networks to support our client’s business and growth.Flexibility
We provide flexible funding structures to meet individual requirements, with the ability and pragmatism to evolve as circumstances change.Launched in September 2020, GCI’s Strategic Capital team are pleased to announce settlement of their first transaction on a 7-hectare property in Laverton North, Victoria. View the case study here.