CGA continues the corporate and governmental credit tenant lease financing work of principals and managing directors Richard Jacobs and W. Kyle Gore. Although the operational transition to the new company has only been completed within the last 60 days, CGA has hit the ground running with more than $1 billion of deals and assignments. Those include providing the debt and arranging equity for a private investor that purchased a $125 million sale-leaseback of Novant Health facilities; a $30 million CTL financing for Walgreens properties; a $103 million corporate office building deal with an A+ credit occupant; and a $600 million debt financing transaction for a GSA development project.

Jacobs and Gore were most recently employees of RBS Securities Inc., formerly RBS Greenwich Capital. They joined RBS in 2005, prior to which they led the structured financing and net lease finance group of Legg Mason Wood Walker Inc. for about 17 years.

While they have purchased the net lease finance group from RBS, their relationship with the bank continues. CGA and RBS now have a strategic alliance by which CGA will serve as the exclusive corporate and governmental credit tenant lease financing group for RBS's global banking and markets division in the Americas. CGA will work with the division's real estate advisory group and RBS corporate bankers on net lease property-related assignments for corporate banking clients of RBS, and RBS Securities will lead-manage the sales, trading and distribution of CGA's larger credit lease financings.