• Genesis HealthCare’s Legacy Liabilities Lead to Bankruptcy Filing

    Genesis HealthCare has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, listing its 298 affiliated holding companies, ancillary businesses and insurance vehicles in its submission to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas Dallas Division. It is one of the largest skilled nursing operators in the country and operates 218... Read More »
  • Cindat Capital Management Invests in Colorado Community

    Cindat Capital Management, a middle-market real estate private equity platform focused on seniors housing and opportunistic investments, announced its first investment from its Senior Housing Credit Platform. It was a unitranche debt investment in The Pearl at Boulder Creak, a 116-unit, Class-A independent living and assisted living community... Read More »
  • MedCore Divests to Publicly Traded Healthcare REIT

    Ziegler announced its role as exclusive sell-side financial advisor to MedCore on the sale of Parkview on Hollybrook, a 189-unit rental CCRC in Longview, Texas. The property has been on a long road to stabilization. It was originally bought in a bankruptcy auction in 2016 for $20.7 million by Thrive FP when it was in the middle of development. 12... Read More »
  • Forbright Bank’s H1 Activity

    Forbright Bank reported its activity for the first half of the year from its healthcare and HUD lending teams, announcing more than $500 million in loans closed for acquisitions, recapitalizations, working capital, and HUD financings for healthcare providers across the country. One of the largest transactions was a $60 million revolving loan to... Read More »
  • Large SNF Portfolio Secures Financing

    MONTICELLOAM, LLC announced the closing of $218.3 million in combined bridge, mezzanine, and working capital financing for 18 skilled nursing facilities across Kentucky. The transaction includes a $179.3 million senior bridge loan and a $29 million mezzanine loan, which the sponsor plans to use to restructure and upsize the existing debt on the... Read More »
Capital One strikes twice

Capital One strikes twice

Showing off its wide array of services, Capital One announced two transactions this week across two health care sectors. First, in seniors housing, Allison Holland originated and provided a 12-year $11 million Fannie Mae loan to refinance a 72-unit assisted living community in Homosassa, Florida (about 60 miles north of Tampa). The community was built in 2009 and features a choice of studio, one- or two-bedroom units. Ms. Holland arranged the 12-year term for the borrower to take advantage of the current low interest rates. Then, in home health care, Capital One served as administrative agent and lead bookrunner for a $65 million senior secured credit facility to finance the acquisition of... Read More »
Capital One goes to Princeton

Capital One goes to Princeton

Working with HUD, Joshua Rosen of Capital One originated a $5.9 million refinance for a 95-bed skilled nursing facility in Princeton, Indiana. Originally built in 1968, with an addition in 1974, the facility features 45 semi-private units and five private rooms, and was operated by a local hospital. It was certified by Medicare and Medicaid, which led Rosen to work with HUD on Medicaid’s Upper Payment Limit program. Available in only a few states, the program is a federal limit on fee-for-service reimbursement of Medicaid providers. This incentivizes the owner to have a local hospital serve as operator, thereby increasing Medicaid payments, which can be taken into consideration during the... Read More »

Jacaranda Trace ready to grow

Cushman & Wakefield and Capital One teamed up together to recapitalize the luxury 492-unit Jacaranda Trace in Venice, Florida (near Sarasota). Located on 33 acres, the property features 436 independent living units, 20 assisted living units and 36 memory care units all built in stages between 1998 and 2015. The units are also split between entrance fee, rental and fee simple contracts. The owner, ROC Seniors Housing, in a joint venture with existing principals of Freedom Senior Management, plans to expand the property to include an additional 120 IL and AL apartments. The financing was arranged by Aaron Rosenzweig, Timothy Hosmer and Caryn Miller of Cushman & Wakefield’s Senior... Read More »

Capital One to acquire GE Capital’s U.S. Healthcare Finance Unit

After hearing of other companies in the hunt to acquire GE Capital’s U.S. Healthcare Finance business (one of the Big Three REITs and a bank among them), Capital One announced that it signed a definitive agreement with GE Capital Corporation to acquire approximately $8.5 billion of healthcare-related loans and its Healthcare Financial Services business for a 6% premium to par value of all receivables as of June 30, 2015. The acquisition is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2015, and Darren Alcus, President of GE Capital, Healthcare Financial Services, will become the President of Capital One’s healthcare finance business. Credit Suisse and Wells Fargo Securities acted as exclusive... Read More »

Rollins-Nelson refinances with Capital One

Rollins-Nelson, an owner/operator of skilled nursing facilities, assisted living communities and acute-care hospitals in California, sought out Capital One Commercial Bank to refinance two of its facilities: a 342-bed SNF in Glendora and a 361-bed (262 of which are assisted living) facility in Long Beach. Shane Passarelli of Capital One led the way in providing both a $30 million senior secured term loan and a $4 million revolving line of credit, which will give Rollins-Nelson the flexibility to refinance existing debt and fund ongoing operations. The company will have access to additional liquidity during the term based on certain performance objectives. Read More »