SLR Capital Partners

Michael S. Gross serves as Chairman and CEO, and has led the firm since co-founding it in 2006. Bruce Spohler serves as Co-Founder and Senior Advisor. The senior investment committee governs credit approvals, drawing on decades of middle-market lending experience across multiple credit cycles.

SLR sources loans through direct relationships with private equity sponsors, intermediaries, and corporate borrowers. The firm's middle-market focus means it typically competes with other direct lenders rather than broadly syndicated loan markets. Its long operating history provides repeat deal flow from financial sponsors managing portfolio companies in need of acquisition financing, growth capital, or refinancing.

SLR Capital Partners is a traditional asset manager, not a family office. The firm is an SEC-registered investment adviser that manages capital on behalf of external investors through both public and private vehicles. Its co-founders are career investment professionals, not principals of a family enterprise.

SLR Investment Corp. is a NASDAQ-listed business development company externally managed by SLR Capital Partners. The BDC serves as one of the primary investment vehicles through which SLR deploys its direct lending strategy, providing public market investors access to middle-market private credit. The manager also operates private funds and institutional separate accounts.

The firm originates senior secured loans, including cash flow-based loans for private equity-backed companies, asset-based revolving credit facilities, and equipment financings. Transactions typically range in hold size appropriate for middle-market borrowers, with the firm providing first-lien, unitranche, and second-lien structures depending on the specific transaction.