CapitalSource, based here, but with offices in San Francisco, Boston and Philadelphia, opened for business last year with $540 million of committed equity capital and $2.5 billion of funding capabilities. It targets mid-sized corporations that require financing for growth, acquisitions or recapitalizations by offering senior, asset-based and mezzanine financings ranging from $3 million to $40 million.

"As a team of specialists, we can better understand the relevant trends in our target markets and deliver innovative, flexible and timely financial solutions to our customers," says CapitalSource CEO John K. Delaney.

The structured finance group provides credit lines to finance companies and loans to specialty real estate companies. As a lender to finance companies, the lender helps smaller finance companies grow so that they can ultimately access the capital markets.

As a real estate lender, it seeks situations where structural creativity is required such as bridge loans, lot liquidation financing, or completion loans. According to CapitalSource, the finance group generally conducts its real estate lending through a pre-approved operating partner or a real estate-oriented finance company.

Among the other units, the health care finance team includes mortgage debt, mezzanine capital and bridge loans; the capital partners group provides both senior and mezzanine financing to companies that are owned by private equity firms or other strategic investors and will often invest equity capital with its clients; the retail finance group provides secured financing to retailers and will also consider other asset-based lending opportunities that require sophisticated structuring and execution capabilities; and the telecom and media finance group provides targeted financing to companies in the communications industry.