Cheslock, Bakker & Associates ("CBA"), is a privately held merchant banking firm founded in 1993. CBA invests capital on behalf of its principals and institutional partners, including a broad array of Fortune 500 companies, pension funds, foundations, insurance companies and other professional investors, and provides fiduciary services to select institutional investors and asset managers. CBA pursues opportunistic investments in real estate and the global capital markets that can provide exceptional risk-adjusted returns. Since its inception in 1993, CBA has executed $4.3 billion of transactions in hard assets, loans, operating companies and public as well as private securities. Investment Focus Areas: Real Estate Investments & Fiduciary Services Commercial Mortgage & Mezzanine Finance Structured Finance Asset-Backed Securitization High Yield Securities