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Equipment Finance 101

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Welcome to Equipment Finance 101, a resource developed by the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association to enhance your knowledge about financing equipment and capital goods in order to acquire the assets your company needs to grow and invest in your business. In the following pages, you will find a number of resources that present options to help you make the best possible decision whether to finance or not and to access to companies that offer financing. In addition we have prepared sections with common terminology and definitions as well as information on the equipment finance options available to your business.

To learn more about the companies who finance equipment and comprise the $600 billion equipment finance sector, please explore the ELFA Site.

Equipment Finance 101 is hosted and produced by the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association with the assistance of David G. Mayer, a Business Transaction Partner and equipment finance expert at Patton Boggs LLP. His practice primarily includes the areas of equipment finance, project finance, aviation finance and other asset-based transactions involving a variety of capital assets and real property. Mayer is also the author of Business Leasing For Dummies and produces the monthly Business Leasing and Finance News (previously Business Leasing News). BLFN has subscribers in 35 countries.