Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance, Inc. (NASDAQ:REFI) Q1 2022 Earnings Conference Call May 12, 2022 10:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Tripp Sullivan – Investor Relations

John Mazarakis – Executive Chairman

Tony Cappell – Chief Executive Officer

Andreas Bodmeier – Co-President and Chief Investment Officer

Conference Call Participants

Aaron Hecht – JMP Securities

Mark Smith – Lake Street Capital Markets

Gaurav Mehta – EF Hutton

Operator

Welcome to the Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance, Inc. First Quarter 2022 Earnings Conference Call. My name is John, and I'll be your operator for today's call. [Operator Instructions]

And I will now turn the call over to Tripp Sullivan of SCR Partners.

Tripp Sullivan

Thank you. Good morning. Welcome to the Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance Conference Call to review the company's results for the first quarter of 2022.

On the call today will be John Mazarakis, Executive Chairman; Tony Cappell, Chief Executive Officer; and Andreas Bodmeier, Co-President and Chief Investment Officer.

Our results were released this morning in our earnings press release, which can be found on the Investor Relations section of our website, along with our supplemental filed with the SEC. A live audio webcast of this call is being made available today. For those who listen to the replay of this webcast, we remind you that the remarks made herein are as of today, May 12, 2022, and will not be updated subsequent to this call. During this call, certain comments and statements we make may be forward-looking statements within the meaning prescribed by the securities laws, including statements related to the future performance of our portfolio, our pipeline of potential loans and other investments, future dividends and financing activities.

All forward-looking statements represent Chicago Atlantic's judgment as of the date of this conference call and are subject to risks and uncertainties that can cause actual results to differ materially from our current expectations. Investors are urged to carefully review various disclosures made by the company, including the risk and other information disclosed in the company's filings with the SEC. We also will discuss certain non-GAAP measures, including, but not limited to, distributable earnings and adjusted distributable earnings. Definitions of these non-GAAP measures and reconciliations to the most comparable GAAP measures are included in our filings with the SEC.

I'll now turn the call over to John Mazarakis. Please go ahead

John Mazarakis

Thanks Tripp, good morning everyone, and thank you or joining us today.