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Fidus Investment Corporation Closes Initial Public Offering of Common Stock
EVANSTON, Ill., June 24, 2011 — Fidus Investment Corporation (“Fidus”)
(NASDAQ: FDUS) , a principal investment company providing customized financing solutions to lower
middle-market companies, today announced the closing of its initial public offering of 4,670,000
shares of common stock at a price of $15.00 per share. Fidus raised approximately $63.9 million
after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses.
Morgan Keegan & Company, Inc., Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated and BB&T Capital Markets, a
division of Scott & Stringfellow, LLC, served as joint book-running managers for the initial public
offering. Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. served as co-manager for the initial public offering.
Investors are advised to carefully consider the investment objective, risks and charges and
expenses of the Company before investing. The offering may be made solely by means of a written
prospectus forming part of the effective registration statement, which may be obtained from the
Prospectus Department at Morgan Keegan at 50 N. Front Street,
12th Floor, Memphis, Tennessee 38103.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor
will there be any sale of the common stock referred to in this press release in any state or
jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration
or qualification under the securities laws of such state or jurisdiction.
ABOUT FIDUS INVESTMENT CORPORATION
Fidus Investment Corporation provides customized mezzanine debt and equity financing solutions to
lower middle-market companies, which generally are defined as U.S. based companies having revenues
between $10.0 million and $150.0 million. Fidus’s investment objective is to provide attractive
risk-adjusted returns by generating both current income from our debt investments and capital
appreciation from our equity related investments. Fidus seeks to partner with business owners,
management teams and financial sponsors by providing customized financing for change of ownership
transactions, recapitalizations, strategic acquisitions, business expansion and other growth
initiatives.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This press release may contain certain forward-looking statements. Any such statements, other than
statements of historical fact, are likely to be affected by other unknowable future events and
conditions, including elements of the future that are or are not under Fidus’s control, and that
Fidus may or may not have considered; accordingly, such statements cannot be guarantees or
assurances of any aspect of future performance. Actual developments and results are highly likely
to vary materially from these estimates and projections of the future. Such statements speak only
as of the time when made, and Fidus undertakes no obligation to update any such statement now or in
the future.
SOURCE: Fidus Investment Corporation
CONTACT: Fidus Investment Corporation
Edward H. Ross, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
eross@fiduspartners.com / (847) 859-3940