Resource Capital Corp. is a specialty finance company that focuses primarily on commercial real estate and commercial finance. The Company conducts its operations as a real estate investment trust (REIT). It invests in a combination of commercial real estate debt and other real estate-related assets and, to a lesser extent, higher-yielding commercial finance assets. It invests in a range of asset classes, which include commercial real estate-related assets such as commercial real estate property, whole loans, A-notes, B-notes, mezzanine loans, commercial mortgage back securities and investments in real estate joint ventures, as well as commercial finance assets, such as bank loans, lease receivables and other asset-back securities, trust preferred securities, debt tranches of collateralize debt obligations, structured note investments and private equity investment principally issued by financial institutions. On October 13, 2011, it acquired approximately 43% of Apidos CLO VIII.