Basalt Capital Partners
Debt & Structured Finance
Basalt's Debt & Structured Finance platform delivers traditional and innovative real estate financing solutions across the full capital stack — from senior loans to preferred equity.
Platform Overview
Basalt Capital Partners ("Basalt") is an integrated commercial real estate platform focused on structured finance, investment execution, and design-build general contracting. Basalt was built to deliver a more coordinated approach to complex real estate assignments by aligning capital formation, underwriting, and project execution within a single operating platform.
The firm's model is designed for sponsors, developers, and owners who require both sophisticated financial structuring and practical execution capability. By combining capital markets expertise with design-build general contracting services, Basalt helps clients bridge the gap between how a project is capitalized and how it is ultimately delivered.
This integrated approach is particularly valuable in projects where construction feasibility, budget discipline, schedule certainty, and lender reporting are critical to successful execution. Rather than treating financing and construction as separate processes, Basalt approaches each engagement with an emphasis on alignment, accountability, and real-time decision-making across the full project lifecycle.
Finance
Capital Stack Solutions
Basalt structures and advises on debt and equity solutions across the capital stack for commercial real estate transactions and projects, tailored to asset type, business plan, and sponsor objectives.
The firm's structured finance process is grounded in disciplined underwriting, transaction analysis, and lender positioning — identifying the most appropriate capital sources for each assignment and structuring financing responsive to project economics, risk allocation, and execution timing.
Senior Loan Financing
- Construction and bridge financing
- Acquisition and permanent debt placement
- Agency and CMBS execution
- Lender negotiation and closing coordination
Mezzanine Loan Financing
- Subordinate and mezzanine debt structuring
- Intercreditor negotiation and documentation
- Leverage optimization across the capital stack
- Risk-adjusted return analysis
Preferred Equity Solutions
- Preferred equity structuring and placement
- Joint venture and co-investment arrangements
- Recapitalization and repositioning capital
- Waterfall and distribution modeling
Capabilities
Core Capabilities
Structured Finance
Basalt structures and advises on debt and equity solutions across the capital stack for commercial real estate transactions and projects. The firm supports acquisition financing, construction financing, bridge loans, recapitalizations, and other bespoke capital solutions tailored to asset type, business plan, and sponsor objectives.
Basalt's structured finance process is grounded in disciplined underwriting, transaction analysis, and lender positioning. The firm works to identify the most appropriate capital sources for each assignment and to structure financing that is responsive to project economics, risk allocation, and execution timing.
- Debt placement for construction, bridge, acquisition, and permanent financing
- Equity structuring and capital raising support for joint ventures, preferred equity, and recapitalizations
- Transaction underwriting, financial analysis, and capital stack optimization
- Coordination of diligence, lender communication, and closing execution
Design-Build General Contracting
Basalt's design-build general contracting platform provides clients with a single point of responsibility across design coordination, budgeting, procurement, and construction execution. This model supports earlier visibility into project scope, cost, and schedule, while improving coordination between predevelopment planning and field execution.
For lenders and capital partners, this capability provides greater confidence in the relationship between underwriting assumptions and actual construction delivery. By integrating design-build general contracting into the same platform as structured finance, Basalt is positioned to improve cost transparency, strengthen budget credibility, and support more disciplined oversight during the construction phase.
- Preconstruction planning and budget development
- Design coordination and constructability review
- Procurement strategy and cost control
- Construction execution oversight, reporting, and schedule management
Integrated Platform Advantage
Basalt's principal differentiator is the integration of structured finance and design-build general contracting within one coordinated platform. In many commercial real estate projects, the financing strategy is developed independently from construction planning, which can create disconnects between lender underwriting, project budgeting, and delivery realities.
Basalt addresses this issue by aligning capital strategy with design-build execution at the front end of the assignment. This approach can improve diligence efficiency, strengthen communication among stakeholders, and reduce execution risk during both closing and construction.
- For borrowers and sponsors — a more streamlined process from capitalization through completion
- For lenders — clearer visibility into budget assumptions, construction oversight, and reporting accountability
Team
Leadership
Basalt is led by principals with deep experience across institutional capital markets, commercial real estate investing, development, and construction. That combination gives the firm a practical understanding of both how transactions are financed and how projects are executed.
Our Position
Positioning
Basalt Capital Partners is positioned as a high-touch, solutions-oriented commercial real estate partner for assignments that demand capital sophistication and execution discipline. Its platform is especially well suited for projects where structured finance and design-build general contracting must work in tandem to support lender confidence, sponsor objectives, and successful project delivery.