GRA specializes in providing professional debt advisory and merchant banking services for small/medium size business enterprises (SME’s) and U.S. based companies with foreign ownership. Our focus is on companies in need of capital who are experiencing financial discomfort or distress arising from either rapid growth or weak financial performance and companies who are in nontraditional markets.

Our team of professionals bring years of seasoned experience from the financial and business services industries. We serve as a direct lender, co-lender, and lead financial arranger.

Our company is headquartered in Redwood City, California and provides services to clients throughout the world.

With a seasoned team of successful professionals, GRA Capital has a proven track record of providing merchant banking and debt advisory services to help its clients achieve their capital needs. We offer our clients a broad range of services including debt placement and financial restructuring advisory, cross-border transactions advisory and private placements. Our primary focus is on:

  • Companies in need of capital who are experiencing financial discomfort or distress arising from either rapid growth or weak financial performance and
  • Companies seeking capital who are in nontraditional markets

Our experience provides us with the insight into which capital sources are currently providing capital in specific industries, and how to position and match our client needs to the capital sources.

Recapitalization and Growth Capital

Every business at one time faces issues especially in the current business world. When unexpected growth or troubles arise, many companies feel unsure as to where to turn to for sound financial and managerial advice. During these times of uncertainly or economic hardship whether internal or external, access to traditional capital resources might become strained. GRA can provide a credible alternative and often the life line for your company while weathering these economic storms. Through the depth of our experienced team of professionals, we have the resources to solve a number of financial challenges from simple to complex economic circumstances and craft an appropriate financial solution that allows our client the time to correct the issues.

We have extensive expertise in sourcing, structuring and managing non-bankable credit facilities. We can place a wide variety of investment and capital vehicles including:

  • Senior debt (asset-based loans, revolving lines of credit and cash-flow based loans)
  • Senior Stretch – ( High % LTV Asset Based & Terms Loans)
  • Mezzanine/sub-debt – Uni-Traunche, Junior Capital
  • Bridge financing and special situation loans

Our lender/investor network offers deep and diverse resources for solutions even with the most seemingly complicated and hopeless of circumstances.