Tax Credit Finance

Enhanced Capital Partners, Inc. (ECP) is a diversified investment firm founded in 1999 with several hundred million under management spread over a dozen state- and federally-sponsored tax credit investment funds and affiliated traditional private investment funds.  ECP has significant expertise and experience in structuring and closing a wide variety of tax incentive financing transactions.  With this experience and expertise and its extensive relationships in the tax incentive financing industry ECP helps its client operating companies, developers and project sponsors identify, navigate and maximize the benefits of tax-incentive financing programs at every stage of the business or project development cycle from pre-site/pre-project selection through monetization of tax credits and the closing of the financial transaction.

Experienced Investment and Tax Credit Consulting Professionals

ECP is an active investment manager of 13 state-sponsored tax credit investment funds and a federally certified Community Development Entity (CDE) that has been awarded an aggregate of $85 million of federal New Markets Tax Credits allocation. This hands-on experience allows ECP to provide valuable services to its clients on a wide variety of state and federal tax-incentivized programs including:  New Markets Tax Credits (NMTCs), Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credits (HTCs), Brownfield Tax Credits, Research and Development Tax Credits, Renewable Energy Tax Credits, Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC), Film Tax Credits and various other tax credits or incentives.

ECP’s extensive experience allows our clients to choose from a full suite of services:

• Project strategy: ECP offers pre-development consulting services to assist clients with making initial site selection and feasibility planning to ensure all tax credit incentives are explored when determining project strategy and financing alternatives.  ECP assists clients with due diligence, feasibility analysis and financial modeling.  Additionally, ECP identifies and secures any additional resources and service providers necessary to round out the project team and ensure the successful closing of the financing transaction.
• Finance structuring: ECP structures financing transactions using multiple layers of debt and equity, together with a wide variety of tax credits and other incentives to maximize yield and investment returns.  In addition to transaction structuring services, ECP also assists clients with deal negotiation, closing, compliance, advisory allocation management and investment services.
• Tax credit finance: ECP leverages its expertise in monetizing highly complex, tax-credit-backed fixed income investments and its relationships with institutional investors to place federal and state tax credits through structures that minimize forfeiture and recapture risk.

ECP is not just a consulting firm. We are an investment company that has participated at every phase of tax credit transactions so we can offer first-hand knowledge and professional guidance to our clients. Please contact us before your next project or at any point during the process of your development.