New Falmouth Golf, LLC has announced that it has raised $4.3 million of equity capital partnering with 22 members of the Golf Club of Cape Cod in Falmouth, Mass., thus securing the future of the club.
“All of the investors in this financing recognize the quality of the club and the unique opportunity afforded to those who participated in this restructuring,” says Kevin Delbridge, one of the club’s new member-partners. “The investors and the club worked in a collaborative fashion, seizing the opportunity to put in place not only an ownership structure that includes a subset of the members, but also a governance structure that includes those members.”
The member-partners will form an advisory board that will participate in the governance of the club with the LLC, led by Martin Shaevel.
As part of the equity offering, Boston Private Bank, a subsidiary of Boston Private Financial Holdings, Inc. and principal lender to the LLC, worked with the club to place it on a firm financial footing for the future.
Opened in June 2007, the Golf Club of Cape Cod is recognized as among one of the Northeast’s best new private golf venues, but it has experienced the challenges of a less-than-favorable economy, requiring its owners to be innovative marketers in the highly competitive New England golf market.
To promote membership sales, the club offered a multi-season recallable, “dues only” opportunity to qualified individuals, requiring participants to commit to the club at the end of the term.
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