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File No. 333-172550
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Fidus Investment Corporation Prices Initial Public Offering of Common Stock at $15.00 Per
Share
Evanston, IL, June 20, 2011 —
Fidus Investment Corporation (Nasdaq: FDUS) (“Fidus”), a principal investment company providing
customized financing solutions to lower middle-market companies, today announced that it priced its
initial public offering of 4,670,000 shares of common stock at $15.00 per share. Fidus also granted
its underwriters a 30-day over-allotment option to purchase an additional 700,500 shares of Fidus’s
common stock at $15.00 per share. The net proceeds from the initial public offering will be
approximately $63.9 million, or approximately $73.6 million if the underwriters’ over-allotment
option is exercised in full, after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated
offering expenses.
Fidus’s common stock is expected to begin trading on the NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol
“FDUS” on June 21, 2011. The closing of the initial public offering is subject to customary closing
conditions, and the shares are expected to be delivered on June 24, 2011.
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. A registration statement (including a preliminary
prospectus) was declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 20, 2011.
Fidus Investment Corporation will file a final prospectus with the Securities and Exchange
Commission for the initial public offering described in this press release. The final prospectus
will contain this and other information about Fidus Investment Corporation and should be read
carefully before investing. A copy of the Prospectus may be obtained from Morgan Keegan & Company,
Inc., 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.
Contact:
Fidus Investment Corporation
Edward H. Ross, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
eross@fiduspartners.com / 847-859-3941