About Benningworth
We were built on the capital side of the table.
The Origin
The firm exists because of a pattern.
Capital does not move because a business deserves it. Capital moves because someone made the decision easy to make.
Benningworth was founded on that observation. Our background is in capital markets, running investor outreach and placement for real estate investment offerings, where the discipline is not the quality of the asset alone but how the opportunity is constructed, who receives it, and how quickly it reaches the person with authority to act.
Equipment finance in the lower middle market operates on the opposite instinct. Sound businesses arrive at lenders underprepared, are underwritten on incomplete information, and accept terms shaped by that incompleteness. The gap between what a company deserves and what it receives is rarely a credit problem. It is a presentation problem.
Benningworth was built to close that gap.
What We Do
An independent firm, representing the borrower.
We are not a lender. We are not a marketplace. We do not take applications and forward them.
Benningworth structures, packages, and places equipment financing, including loans, leases, and sale-leasebacks, for founders and sponsors in the lower middle market. We take the transaction from the first conversation through documentation and funding, and we remain accountable for it at every stage.
Our lending partners’ teams have funded over $10 billion in equipment and commercial transactions. These are underwriters who have spent decades on the approval side, and their standards inform how every Benningworth file is built.
The Principles
Four commitments that govern how we work.
We prepare before we place.
No transaction leaves this firm until it is complete. A file that invites questions has already cost the client something.
We represent one side.
Our obligation is to the borrower. Lender relationships matter, and we protect them, but never at the expense of the client whose transaction we hold.
We are selective on your behalf.
Transactions are placed with a small number of lenders chosen for genuine fit. Broadcasting a deal weakens it, marks the credit, and forfeits the leverage a disciplined process creates.
We tell you what we see.
If a transaction should be structured differently, delayed, or not pursued at all, we say so. A firm that never declines a deal is not advising anyone.
Leadership
Daviel Aldama, Founder and Principal
Daviel founded Benningworth to bring institutional discipline to a segment that rarely receives it. His background is in capital markets, leading investor outreach and placement for real estate investment offerings, work that turns on how an opportunity is constructed and how efficiently it reaches the decision-maker.
That experience shapes the firm. Benningworth is organized around what actually moves capital: the quality of the package, the selection of the audience, and the speed with which a complete file reaches the desk that can approve it.
He works directly on every transaction the firm accepts.
The Standard
Institutional rigor. Boutique accountability.
Larger advisory firms decline transactions of this size. Brokers accept them and shop them. Neither serves a founder or sponsor well.
Benningworth applies the preparation standard of a middle-market process to lower-middle-market transactions, and delivers it with the responsiveness of a firm where the principal is on every call.