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Peter Sack

Managing Partner

Chicago Atlantic

Peter is a Partner at Chicago Atlantic and serves as Co-CEO of Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance, Inc., the firm’s publicly traded cannabis mortgage REIT. Peter is a credit investor and portfolio manager with experience investing across the capital structure. He founded the firm’s cannabis vertical and has underwritten over half a billion dollars in related transactions.

 

Prior to joining Chicago Atlantic, Peter was a Principal at BC Partners Credit, where he sourced and underwrote across the firm’s opportunistic and senior lending strategies in a wide array of industries. Peter managed the portfolio of BC Partners Lending Corporation, a private business development company with assets of over $100 million deployed in middle-market private loans. Previously, Peter was an Associate at Atlas Holdings LLC, a private-equity firm focused on supporting distressed manufacturing and distribution companies globally. Peter serves on the board of directors of Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance, Inc., Ability Insurance Company, and the New York City Charter School of the Arts. Peter speaks Mandarin Chinese and Spanish.

 

MBA, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

BA, Yale University

Fulbright Scholar, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Province, China