Headquartered in Westport (CT), Encina Equipment Finance, LLC (EEF) provides loans and leases ranging in size from $5 - $50 million and secured by essential-use machinery & equipment. The platform provides financing to both privately-owned (sponsor and non-sponsor) and publicly-traded companies across a wide range of collateral types, industries (including, but not limited to, construction, distribution, energy, food processing, healthcare, information technology, manufacturing, mining, paper & packaging, and transportation) and use cases (including loans against existing or newly-acquired assets, leases of newly- acquired assets and sale-leasebacks of existing assets). EEF’s customers use financing proceeds to fund new capital expenditures, working capital, refinancings, growth, restructurings/turnarounds and other special situations.