Middle Market · Family-Owned Businesses
Cactus Capital Partners advises family-owned, founder-led, and owner-operated businesses on debt structuring, capital transactions, and strategic financings. We bring institutional discipline to markets where it has historically been scarce – connecting mandated capital with qualified borrowers and executing to close.
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Cactus Capital Partners is a Chicago-based capital markets advisory firm focused on the middle and lower-middle market. We specialize in debt structuring, transaction advisory, cross-border structuring, and trade finance – working primarily with family-owned, founder-led, and owner-operated businesses.
Many of our clients are navigating a significant capital transaction for the first time – a first institutional credit facility, growth financing, or a structured deal they have never done before. These decisions carry weight that goes beyond the numbers. We work as a trusted advisory partner through the full process, not as a transactional intermediary.
Our principals bring direct experience across asset-backed lending, structured credit, trade finance, and equity capital transactions – with operational depth in agribusiness, food and beverage, real estate, and industrial businesses. We apply institutional transaction standards from first review through close, regardless of borrower size or market.
What We Do
Working capital facilities, asset-backed lending, term debt, and bridge financing. We structure transactions that fit the asset and the borrower, and lead lender selection, documentation, and negotiation through close.
Advisory across capital transaction and M&A processes – buy-side, sell-side, and growth financings. We prepare investment and credit materials, coordinate due diligence, and support execution from mandate through close on both debt and equity transactions.
Multi-jurisdictional transactions require fluency in multiple regulatory environments. We design structures that work across borders – from investment vehicles to local credit facilities and intercompany capital deployment.
We structure and arrange trade finance facilities for importers, exporters, and cross-border operators. This includes pre-export financing, supply chain finance, accounts receivable programs, and letter of credit-backed structures.
Get in Touch
Whether you are a family business, owner-operator, or sponsor exploring a financing mandate or capital transaction, we are available for initial conversations on a confidential basis.
We work with family-owned and founder-led businesses at various stages across the middle and lower-middle market. If the opportunity is real and the counterparty is credible, we want to hear from you.