CGA Capital, LLC and its affiliates are focused exclusively on structuring and providing debt and equity capital for real estate and other assets used by corporate, governmental, healthcare, and not-for-profit users throughout the United States. CGA was founded in 1989 as a subsidiary of Legg Mason, Inc., and is currently a privately held firm consistently recognized as one of the country's leading real estate net lease financing sources. CGA has closed over $34 billion in debt and equity financings over the past 35 years, including three of the four largest single tenant/single property sale-leaseback transactions ever undertaken in the United States.
CGA’s principals led the real estate net lease financing efforts at Legg Mason and RBS Securities (fka RBS Greenwich Capital, a part of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc), and have been pioneers in innovative net lease transaction structures for office, retail, industrial, governmental, healthcare, manufacturing, and special purpose properties involving more than 100 separate corporate and governmental tenants in all 50 states. In addition to investing for its own account, CGA provides investment banking, debt financing, and equity investment services for institutional and high-net-worth real estate equity investors and developers nationwide. CGA group affiliates include CGA Securities, LLC, a broker/dealer engaged in the institutional private placement of credit-focused real estate debt and equity products, and loan servicing and asset management entities that provide advisory services for debt and equity investments totaling over $14.25 billion (principal balance) of real estate net lease-related debt assets for which it serves in both active and standby asset management or servicing roles. CGA also holds equity interests in over $5.1 billion of real estate net leased properties totaling over 7.5 million square feet.