Finance, Accounting, Real Estate

Over 15 years of experience as a CFO and strategic business partner with proven analytical ability and demonstrated skills to manage teams, relationships and projects. Proactive and excellent at multitasking, with great attention to detail. Recognized as a successful and reliable global team player.

Elijah Kaplan is an experienced leveraged finance, private equity, restructuring and strategy professional having spent over seventeen years advising, financing and acquiring middle-market businesses through leveraged buyouts, acquisitions, recapitalizations and restructurings. Elijah has closed a number of transactions ranging from asset-based revolvers to control equity investments across a broad array of industries. He has creatively structured and negotiated both new transactions and restructurings to create win/ win solutions for all those involved – lenders, borrowers and financial sponsors. Elijah has also worked closely with management teams to assess and develop strategy, growth opportunities and potential cost savings in order to increase shareholder value, having successfully reduced a portfolio company's cost structure by 31%. Specialties: Private equity and mezzanine investing; Asset-based lending; Restructuring / workout (both financial and operational); Negotiating solutions to complex business issues; Strategic thinking and strategy development; Financial analyses - LBO, M&A, Valuation, Credit.