


Live Oak Bank Flourishes This Summer
Showing off its versatility, Live Oak Bank facilitated acquisition financing for two separate, and very different, transactions. First, the bank provided a cash flow balance sheet loan to support a partner buy-out at Frontier Management. Formation Capital had owned a 50% stake in the senior living operator, but with this transaction, Frontier’s founder and CEO, Greg Roderick, became the sole owner. Established in 2000, Frontier now operates 80 communities with over 6,000 independent living, assisted living and memory care units across 12 states. Second, Live Oak Bank provided a $5 million SBA 7a loan for local operator in Utah to acquire two small assisted living communities in the town of... Read More »
Live Oak Bank Growing Its Senior Care Business
Still just less than a year after forming its senior care lending division (and hiring Adam Sherman of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors as the new division’s industry expert), Live Oak Bank closed two more loans for seniors housing properties. First, working on behalf of a local owner/operator in Georgia, Live Oak provided a $5 million SBA 7a loan and a companion balance sheet loan to fund the construction of a 60-unit assisted living/memory care community in the town of Cartersville. The loans came with floating rates and fully amortize over 25 years, with no balloon payments. For the developer, this isn’t their first rodeo in northwest Atlanta (a market we have heard has seen... Read More »